Snake with Water Color

I was inspired to paint another snake when I typed in "Sailor Jerry spit shading" on Google images and my snake picture was on the 5th line. It got me excited, so here is my new snake. I checked out "tattoo bible vol. 2" for the 100th time and pulled this image out of that book. I had a 2 and a half hour lunch break between classes, so I brought my water color tray (travel one with dried paint, not liquid), a brush, a water cup and a water bottle, the book and a piece of cheap watercolor paper and did my thang. I penciled it out, started with yellow and realized, "Holy Smokes! why don't I always use this type of water color!" The tray with 32 colors was 6 dollars at Micheal's and if I do say so, the colors are very controlled and look great. So, yellow, green, other green, ROY G. BIV... oops, red, blue, purple and black lastly.

It really came out great. I am still not very good with lighting and where to put shadows. The snake kind of looks like a Native American warrior (my wife made me use the politically correct terminology) with the random black spots on its face, but they were there in the picture! The water came out AMAZING! And be assured that I will be painting a wave of some sort in the very soon future! Since it is my last piece of paper, I may be adding more to this page! Call it flash if you want, I call it being poor!

Thanks for all of the support on getting my picture on Google images guys. Love ya all!

Tattoo Paintings

I finally felt up to drawing some serious tattoo style painting. I felt these were some classic images. I got them from a "book of tattoos". Once again, i had a problem with the background. I did the blue first, but I tried to steer around the outlines because the color was so dark, i didn't want it to affect the color of everything else i would paint over it. I ended up messing up the picture by putting way too much blue on the blade of the sword.


I got this book called "Tattoo Bible vol. 2" and it is awesome, so many great images. I wanted to zoom in on this gypsie and just capture her head and put a flower behind her to add some depth. I also did 2 new things. One, I painted the background with old coffee which was supposed to give a cool "old" look to it, but the coffee wasn't black enough. Two, I spent alot of time layering, especially with her scarf on her head and her hair.



I tried once again to make a Koi Fish, much better attempt than my first one! I did alot of layering, no background first, I just went with light to dark. I love the colors of the water and that Japanese water came out great.


My mom always said i need to draw religious images, so this painting is dedicated to her. Our Lady of Guadalupe. I didn't put a thick outline around her, i'm not sure if that was a mistake or not, but she doesn't pop very much. The background rays came out very cool. The layering on her clothes took forever!

This painting is awesome! I poured a bunch of coffee grounds into a cup with water and heated it up. you cant see it too well in this picture, but I layered the coffee 3 times and let it dry each time. It is a great trick, you just need extreme black coffee! I think this picture really captures that old school "sailor Jerry" tattoo style, which is what i was going for.