Rhomany does a lot of cool stuff and this is just one example of her cool work. She does a B&W drawing of a girl, adds a swirl in the background, then layers on some image transfers from magazines and ties it all together with some watered down acrylic paint. Adds oms words and voila! Great stuff!
This is a pretty simple page in an old art journal. The paper is strathmore cold pressed 140lb watercolor paper stitched into a leather cover.
On the left hand page I glued down a scrap of art paper, it's the orange triangular piece on the top of that page. I wrote on top of it with a waterproof fabercastell pitt pen in black. I wrote around it with the same pen. After the pen was full dry I washed over the top with some transparent watercolors. I didn't like the color so I added some watercolor crayons to intensify the colors.
At this time of my life I was writing brief little nuggets about my day. I'd write a couple of sentences and then turn the page, or block it off. After the page had dried I again added watercolors to add the color to the page.
On the right side I was dealing with some intense personal stuff that I didn't want that person to read with ease as I worked on the page in the common area of our apartment, so I darkened the page with a wash of black watercolor crayon.
I used Leeho 2 way glue to hold the paper to the page.
SharonNYC is another person on flickr I've been looking at for a long time, she's got this particular style of art journaling that is specific to her, muted colors, earth tones, bones and flesh. I love it. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else.
The first part of the twitter hand experiment went awesome. I got mass amounts of hands to draw and I put a few on canvas. I'm looking for more hands to draw. I've set up a flickr group so people can post their hands there as well. Pics can be tweeted @lessherger or put directly into the group. I'll also post my drawings and paintings to the group.
I can't wait to see what round 2 brings.
Also for a similar project check out 200 Portraits on flickr. You can send her portraits to work with.
Click through and take a look at Wil Freeborn's stuff over time, he's really developed a particular style with watercolors, I think you'll find it quite nice.
Well folks it's been a bit of a crazy week here in Comfortable Shoes land. It's been 95 degrees with 80% humidity and I pretty much melt in that kind of heat. All I want to do is sleep in a room with AC. Iv'e been sketching a lot but I haven't had a chance to post any of the pics. I've got some plans to, man the plans.
I'll start with the rough news. I have a lot of family spread out around the north east. Part of my family comes from Buffalo and part comes from DownEast Maine, where I grew up. I live in Massachusetts which makes a good stopping point when family goes out to visit in either direction. It's kind of a nice thing. So I got a call Wednesday night, after I worked for a 10 hour day and got stuck in traffic for 3 hours, that my father and my grand mother were coming to visit. Now we keep our house clean but not… GrandMother clean. I was unsure of when they would arrive exactly so I left work early that day and rushed home.
It was 95 degrees that day and about 85% humidity. I blitz cleaned the house in a couple of hours. Have you ever scrubbed toilets and vacuumed in that kind of heat? Neither had i, and I'll never repeat it. I swear I lost 20 pounds in sweat. By the end of it I was a sweaty stinking mess. Anyway. I clean ed and cooked dinner,then stayed up until 10pm catching up with the folks. Then got up at 3 AM to see them off the next day.
So I didn't get much work or art done until later tonight. I came home from work crashed and then started drawing and painting. I'm in an art groove today. My pieces are coming out in a way I like. I feel good and I feel confident in them. I've been painting and drawing almost everyday for 2 months now. You can see the difference in my work, I can feel the difference in my brush strokes. I can feel the control of my brush. I'm getting there.
I picked up 2 wooden panels, on hard board and one 3/8th birch plywood. Tomorrow I'm cutting them into 1×1 foot squares to start painting on. I'm also going to show you how to make a cradle for wood panels. It's pretty easy with a few basic tools. I'll get into in a video later this weekend.
Anyway, lots of work going on, I'll get lots of pics and video this weekend.
An art journal flip with commentary by the artist. LOTS of great info in these 2 videos!
Part 1
Part 2
When I tweeted at Amanda Palmer to ask if she'd tweet me a pic of her hands I didn't know what to expect, I certainly didn't expect to get a very very cool picture of her hands and a Mary of Guadalupe. Too cool. So I waited a bit to draw her hands, I wanted to be sure I was getting the hands mostly right before I made an attempt. I think I did pretty well with this one, even putting in the image of Mary behind her hands.
the sketch with the photo.
close up of the sketch
with most of the background painted in. It's missing Mary's face color, some white and some black
Finished! Let me know what you think.
I got into a groove yesterday and did a bunch of full size hand drawings/paintings. Here they are:
Very happy with these.
This time around I wanted to take up the whole page and really concentrate on the light, shade and shape o fhte hands. This picture is of 2 people holding hands. It's really sweet.
I started out with one of my gessoed sketchbook pages, rough. I used a 0.5 pencil to rough in the shapes and shadows.
I used an 0.9 mech pencil to add the lighter shadows and some of the background.
I really wanted to go darker with the background so I sharpened up a 5B pencil and layered in a ton of graphite. I used wild brush strokes to blend the back ground.
I finished up with some 0.9 pencil for details. The Left side of the top hand should be moved about a bit but it works for the most part.
