Sept 2, 2011, 6:11AM
I started to paint the cool colors over the "dead layer". The result is the illusion of depth.
August 25, 2011, 10:28AM
Looks like I forgot a take a photo of the in progress of the color stage.... oops.
ANYWAYS.... here's what I did last night!
Back to Painting!
-Mat
August 24, 2011, 9:48AM
Started an oil study of myself looking skeptically at a cup of coffee. Breaking out of the grind of abstraction and landscapes for a little practice before tackling a few portrait commissions and a wedding present.
Back to Painting!!
-Mat
August 20, 2011, 7:40Am
Sorry for not posting the past few days. I'm helping a friend get married and I've just been frantically trying together everything done. I haven't even had time to twitter!! But tomorrow I should be able to start making regular updates again.
Back to Wedding!
-Mat
August 17, 2011, 5:17AM.
I was asked to be in an MCAD art event where I was asked to put up some "pre-Art Sale" stuff for sale. So in good MCAD fashion, I'm quickly whipping out a landscape painting based on one of the unused concepts for the previous landscape commissioned painting in the span of two days. The painting I'm SUPPOSED to be working on is due to be completed this weekend. (Wait other "FFFFFFUUU..." posts over the next few days. :)
But I supposed the old saying rings true: "an Artist with bare walls in his studio is either very successful or very lazy,"
And as anyone reading this knows, I'm not a lazy person.
Back to Painting!
-Mat
August 15, 2011, 9:15AM
Just a quick update. The weekend was a little more filled with excitement than I anticipated, and there was that deep need for sleep that I wasn't expecting. Then there was the last-minute call for a logo design for a company and finding out that I need to have a few paintings finished for an upcoming MCAD event.
By Thursday. THIS Thursday. I'm also aparently searching for a wedding photographer for a wedding this Saturday adding a bit to my freak-out stress level, but nothing a pot of coffee can't solve.In any case, I only managed to get to do another 14 or so hours of work on the painting. But they were some good hours. I managed to almost completely plot out the final colors for the clouds, and I resolved a bit more of the left side. As soon as the clouds are done, I can finish the foreground, tweak it a bit, and call it done! Can't wait, this painting is turning out amazingly well!Back to Painting!
-Mat
Minor mayhem. Accidentally mixed yellow acrylic with green oil for the undertone. Needless to say, it was a mess. Luckily I had water mixable oil paint (crazy, no?) So I added that and the oil molecules where bridged to the water molecules allowing everything to work out just fine.
Painting is also a little about chemistry too!
Back to painting!
-Mat
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| The stretcher pieces are all built. |
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| Once the entire stretcher is built, the edges are sharp, which poses a problem when it comes to stretching the canvas, as the sharp edges will cause it to rip. |
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| sanded smooth. |
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| begin the stretching! |
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| The border color is mixed to match the color sample. |
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| the border is masked off. |
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| the border color is hand smeared into the crevices of the tape to ensure there is no bleed through. |
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| The border tape is painted over and entire canvas is ready to have a wash of color applied once its dry. |
This can only end in tears... Frustrated, sad little tears....
-Mat
I've decided, against logic to mostly repaint the three iPod paintings. Thankfully it will just be minor stuff like shading, color and impasto. This does nothing to dispel theories of my self masochism toward punishment.
-Mat
Trying out the blogger uploaded on my iPod. It's 1:23am and I needed a break :)
-Mat
