Leftovers

Still playing catch-up (albeit lazy catch-up) on posting the leftovers from my last semester at Ringling. Featured today we have my last few weeks of Fiore Custode's advanced figure painting class:

In other news this blog may migrate to a new address sometime soon... one that's less embarrassing to tell people while still only slightly less ridiculous... and hopefully less limiting on the demographic.

Figure Painting! Cowboy time!

Cowboy time! Yeah!

Painting

6 Hours

6 Hours

3 Hours

So, this is the annual "I think I'm getting the hang of painting" post, but I think I might really mean it this time... not sure. Anyway, in the grand tradition of posting paintings and then immediately being unsure of their merit, here goes.

Should be some sketchbook I feel much more comfortable with coming briefly.

Painting

Hey! Haven't updated this thing in some time now, so hey, why not some paintings? I'm a bit tentative about posting these as, well, I still have a lot to learn in painting and I feel like it shows in the work.

This is all work from last semester.

Figure Painting

2/2/09 - around 2-2.5 hours

So I took a bunch of pictures of my figure paintings from fall at the end of last semester with the intent of posting them up here. It's like anything else I'm still in formative stages with, something I thought might have been good when I did it is so quickly overshadowed by further development or simply stepping back from having just made it. As such I'm not sure if those old figure paintings will ever make it up on here.

Anyway, this is my best to date. there are a number of things that aren't terribly resolved, or resolved the way I'd like them to be, but it's probably the best I've done to date.

12, 12x12 paintings

For painting class we've been working on a series of 12, 12" x 12" paintings for homework. This has been assigned since ages ago, which invariably means that time will not be spent appropriately...

In any case, they were due yesterday, so I thought I would post the result.

The theme I chose for my series was a sort of surreal animal mish-mash thing. Kind of a way of highlighting some of the bizarre things that happen in nature by taking them a little out of context (applying them to another animal). Some turned out better than others.

Vulturephant


Walropillar


Moosetopus

Bioluminescent Peacock


Snigeon


Chrout


Uh... Spamtis? (Hamster Spider Mantis)


Catepede


Fostrich


Mosqiwi


Barn Owlmingo


Beagle

And there (in no particular order) you have it.

More Painting...

So the semester is rolling along. I'm finally starting to make things in painting class that aren't entirely disgraceful, haha. We spent the last couple weeks of class painting downtown, here are the highlights. Compared to some of my peers it all looks pretty shoddy but compared to myself I'm looking pretty good, haha. These are all about 3 hours a piece.

This last one here is part of a series of 12, 12in by 12in paintings we have to do, all thematically connected and whatnot. I'm doing little animal hybrid things, which I realize isn't the most original idea, so to make up for that I'm trying to make sure the pictures are extra weird. This is the first one I have done... at given how many I have to do and when they're due, I should be putting them out at a rate of about 1-2 a week... and on that schedule I'm already one behind... shit.

Roosterfish

When I get the time I have some figure drawings worth uploading, but for now I have a lot to do...

-Rob

Painting...

So in painting class the teacher had us paint a still life composed of almost entirely white objects. The catch was that we weren't to use any white in the first stages of the painting. While it was frustrating at first, after a point I was pretty reluctant to start using white...

I kind of like the way it turned out in the end.

I haven't really figured out a good way of photographing my paintings yet, so bear with the image quality for now.

The underpainting


Finished, or about as close as I can get it right now


Shell detail... this is where I spent most of the time... it didn't photograph particularly well but I'm actually really happy with it.

So painting hasn't really been one of my strong points so far... but I think I'm finally starting to get somewhere with it... we'll see how this develops.