WIP Almost Done!

After a bit of a slow start this morning (I over-slept), today turned out to be a pretty productive day.  This WIP is not quite finished yet, but it's definitely getting there! 

  

I spent a lot of time refining the lines and details today so the changes since my last post are pretty minimal, but I think it is starting to look cleaner and more finished.  This is almost done, so more coming soon!

Viking WIP Continues...

Not sure how much further I'll get on this tonight, so here's the latest snapshot:

 

I'm still primarily working on rendering at this point, but I did experiment with texture a bit this afternoon.  I know technically that kind of detail is supposed be saved for the end, but I just couldn't resist! (Though, I did turn the texture layers off while I painted so I could pretend I wasn't skipping ahead, see what I was doing).  Textures are "on" in the screenshot above... I think they may just make it into the final painting :)

Still lots of work to do on this one, so more to come! 

Long time no post ... and Vikings!

I can't believe it's the end of September already!  It's been a busy summer of work, vacation, painting, sketching, cooking experiments... and not posting on this blog.  Sorry poor neglected blog.

I have a few other projects in the works, but I started taking in-progress snapshots of my latest painting so to get the blog going again, here they are!

Last week:

Today:

Only two so far, but I'm finding it interesting to look back at the progression, so I'm planning to continue with the screenshots (and post them more frequently).

More to come!

Fluffy Cat!

Inspired by my kitty who is sitting on my sketchbook, just a quick painting of a happy cat and her paper.

Monday...

Long time no post!  May was a pretty busy month and so far so is June!  I've been working on a few pieces that were not quite ready for posting but as of two minutes ago, one of those is complete!

If you work in an office like me maybe you can relate to this poor guy, I'm calling this one "Monday."

Hope you enjoy and have a pleasant Monday tomorrow!  More to come soon!

Vikings - Almost Done

I can't decide if this painting is finished or not... so I thought I'd upload another progress picture (and/or start something new) while I make up my mind.

Vikings - Update!

Finally got around to making some progress on this painting - It's not quite finished yet, but it's a lot closer than it was last week!

Hoping to get this finished up soon... maybe this week if I'm lucky, but hopefully next weekend if I'm not :)

Thanks for visiting!  More to come soon!

Vikings

I'm not sure this is done yet, but after re-starting four times and trying three different compositions this is still a work in progress, but it's the closest I to what I pictured when I started this project.

Hopefully (and this may be wishful thinking), I'll have this finished by the end of this week, so more to come soon.

On an unrelated note, my computer thinks I saved this on 4/8 but today is 4/13, but that's another problem.

Fishy Hairdo

I started this painting a couple weeks ago, I might touch up the contrast in just a couple areas but I think it's pretty much complete!

I was practicing drawing characters with different shaped heads and features and decided that a couple of them had fish-like qualities so I turned them into fish and came up with this composition. (I liked the suspicious expression and a fish haircut seemed like a good reason to use it).

Next on the list: Vikings!

Thanks for visiting!