Showing posts with label Spit Shading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spit Shading. Show all posts
Monday, September 3, 2012
Surfing time
Here is the latest piece of surf art. I recently bought my first pad of arches paper. I got cold pressed and the divites are way to big. It is made for water color and since it it $30 for 16 sheets, its going to be a while before i get another.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Guy and gal
I have wanted to paint this traditional mustache guy for a while. When i saw this girl i knew it was a perfect match and i had just the frames for them.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Pirate girl
Pirate Girl, recreated from Jason Lambert's image. Border was used by putting water around image (descent amount) getting a good amount of ink on your brush and dot the brush around in the water. It is a pretty cool effect I am working on perfecting more
CA the seamstress
Wife got a sewing machine, wanted to make her a professional sign. Used coffee to make it look old.
Tracing
A great way to get a nice clean picture of something you are attempting to re-create is by "tracing" or "stenciling" it. turns out most people do this, would of been nice to know that A YEAR AGO!! Let me explain what this means.
Step 1: you find a picture you want to paint and print it out, or if you find it online and do not have a printer, trace off the computer screen (can be difficult).
For the example, I printed out a picture of a guy with a cuckoo bird in his head.
Step 2: Place the tracing paper of the picture and trace all of the lines you wish to re-paint using a fine pencil (I left out the blue tattoo ink on the man and the borders)
Step 3: Get your water color paper and put the tracing paper over it (line it up how you want it to appear on your paper)
Step 4: Slide the black transfer paper over the water color paper, and under the tracing paper (a.k.a. Tracing paper, transfer paper, water color paper - stacked on top of each other)
side note: Dark black side should be facing the water color paper/ down, NOT towards tracing paper/ you)
Step 5: Re- trace the lines on your tracing paper using a fine pencil, remember where you have traced because when you lift up the papers "what you see is what you get!" unless you want to erase it all and start over again! (yes, the transfer paper comes up with eraser)
Step 6: Re-trace the lines of your image on your water color paper with your artist pen/ calligraphy pen. (yes, this is a lot of tracing! but it is a clean exact copy) After you finish tracing with pen, take your eraser and rub down the whole image so the transfer paper image is gone. You should be left with a dark permanent ink outline of your image and ready to be filled in with your talent. Just like a coloring book picture!
Spit Shading for real!
Well, I finally put some real ink to real paper with a real brush! He gave me black ink and red ink and said this was all I would need to get started. Of course I am a suck for color and went out a week later to buy 2 more colors and began mixing away! I got these images out of a Sailor Jerry book my friend brought over and stenciled them out. I will explain what that means soon!
Transition Period. New Essential Supplies
Well, I stopped painting and blogging for a while because it got nice outside and I took a job in Virginia. After moving, my new neighbors had some friends over and one had a bunch of tattoos and I brought up "tattoo art". He showed me all of his traditional flash spit-shading he has done and I showed him my desperate attempt. This was the first person to ever give me a personal tip on how to spit shade. He brought over many supplies I had never heard of and taught me some techniques I had not found in any previous books. He learned from a friend of his that is a tattoo artist in VA Beach. Below are the materials he gave/recommended to me.
Artist Pens (good sharpies, get a fine and medium tip, I even use the bold - Friend uses a calligraphy pen)
Thin tip pencil (I use mechanical)
Calligraphy black ink - "super black india ink by speedball"
Professional Acrylic INK!!!!! - I use liquitex because Dr. Ph. Martins' is expensive
Good brushes - both #1 and #4 are essential - I use Beste round tip
Tracing paper
Essential Supplies:
Good Water Color paper (not mixed media)Artist Pens (good sharpies, get a fine and medium tip, I even use the bold - Friend uses a calligraphy pen)
Thin tip pencil (I use mechanical)
Calligraphy black ink - "super black india ink by speedball"
Professional Acrylic INK!!!!! - I use liquitex because Dr. Ph. Martins' is expensive
Good brushes - both #1 and #4 are essential - I use Beste round tip
Other Supplies:
Transfer paper (black sheet in corner of the picture)Tracing paper
I will explain the use of these in a future post!
Day of the Dead Man and Woman
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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!
Cut the Sh*p!
OK, I get it! I am not a landscape artist...yet! I just thought that every artist should be good at painting landscapes and real life, but I don't even really like to paint like that. I would love to sit in front of a building and make it look like a photograph on my canvas, but I'm not there yet. I like tattoo art, and I'm good at painting flash and why not just stick to what you're good at, right!? So, for all of you that missed my most talented flash pieces, they are back in full motion!
For this project, I decided I was going to do 3 different attempts at the same piece of art: acrylic, liquid water color and spit shading of Sailor Jerry's "homeward" flash piece. (pictured above)
My first painting is acrylic, I first sketched the piece with pencil lightly to get the ship where I wanted it. Next, I went dark to light, starting with the water, then the top of the ship downwards. I would like to share that acrylic without water in it drys extremely fast! I mixed blue and brown together to get the darkest color. I then used blue on top of it, followed by blue mixed with WHITE!!!! Yes, I went out and bought white acrylic because I was sick and tired of using 5 colors to make a picture! So, the sky blue followed by yellow to highlight the wood and brass.
Next, I threw some white on some areas to try and pop out the sails, ship bow, brass on top, masts, etc... The flag came out like garbage, but believe it or not, the flag was not really my main focus. I cared more about the stupid seagulls than the flag! Also, I thought it would make the waves pop if I used my shiny silver sharpie ... ummm, in the sun it sort of sparkles and does it, but not in the evening time (so, mixed media piece?).
Lastly, I took out my watercolor sharpie and went over the drawing to give it more of the tattoo vibe. Overall, I am pretty proud of it, compared to my other acrylic pieces!
Onward, to my preferential media, watercolor! As always, I lightly drew the ship and water and even the seagulls. From light to dark, yellow, dark yellow, watered down blue (sky blue), light blue, dark blue, red, brown, black. I love the way the wood on the ship turned out, it fades from dark to light very well. The waves are even pretty fun. I like having the U-shaped cut on the bottom of the piece, instead of it looking like I am attempting to paint an actual scene. The red sunset pops the ship much more and I tried a little more to help out the flag.
Finally, let's get down to what I know how to do and what is going to make this ship look like Sailor Jerry himself did it - Spit Shading with watercolor! I made some tea and painted the paper with 3 coats to get the paper more antique brown. By the way, this paper is the cheap paper, not thick, and not as good quality as the other (ran out).
Then I penciled down the image (for the third time!) and threw it in my work bag. I brought a water dish, paint tray, black, red, yellow and a napkin and painted this during my lunch hour. From yellow to red to black. Also, I did not trace this with sharpie; I painted the outline with my brush. Took about an hour and a half to do the whole piece.
The trick with spit shading (for me) is to put the solid black down, clean your brush, then pull the paint outwards and it should become lighter. When your brush gets dry, use your spit to get a really controlled amount of water on your brush. You don't want water globs on a light painting like this! I tried to get the flag to look a little better... whatever, stupid flag! I think the water came out kinda cool with all of the different blacks giving a rippling effect.
I asked my painting amigo how to fade the sails better, she said that gradation is the most studied and practiced part of watercolor and acrylic and there is no super special trick. She gave me a tip which I will share. Fill with water (from your brush) the area you want to be the color, then dip your brush in paint and dab the water in spots and it should move to the corners and fade by itself... haven't tried it, just sharing the wisdom! Let me know how it works.
By the way,
I used a #3 brush for acrylic and it took an hour to paint
I used a #3 and #1 brush for the first watercolor and it took an hour or so
I used a #1 brush for the spit shading and it took about an hour and a half.
My new insights are:
"Take your time, the final product will come. The most fun is not so much looking at your finished piece as it is dreaming of what it looks like with every little stroke and dab of paint."
"Don't be afraid to try something different, it is just paper, you can always make more, who knows, it may be awesome!"
"Fading, shading, gradating, whatever you want to call it, is freakin' hard to do!"
"Flags are dumb, don't include them in your paintings unless you want them to look worse!"
For this project, I decided I was going to do 3 different attempts at the same piece of art: acrylic, liquid water color and spit shading of Sailor Jerry's "homeward" flash piece. (pictured above)
My first painting is acrylic, I first sketched the piece with pencil lightly to get the ship where I wanted it. Next, I went dark to light, starting with the water, then the top of the ship downwards. I would like to share that acrylic without water in it drys extremely fast! I mixed blue and brown together to get the darkest color. I then used blue on top of it, followed by blue mixed with WHITE!!!! Yes, I went out and bought white acrylic because I was sick and tired of using 5 colors to make a picture! So, the sky blue followed by yellow to highlight the wood and brass.
Next, I threw some white on some areas to try and pop out the sails, ship bow, brass on top, masts, etc... The flag came out like garbage, but believe it or not, the flag was not really my main focus. I cared more about the stupid seagulls than the flag! Also, I thought it would make the waves pop if I used my shiny silver sharpie ... ummm, in the sun it sort of sparkles and does it, but not in the evening time (so, mixed media piece?).
Lastly, I took out my watercolor sharpie and went over the drawing to give it more of the tattoo vibe. Overall, I am pretty proud of it, compared to my other acrylic pieces!
Onward, to my preferential media, watercolor! As always, I lightly drew the ship and water and even the seagulls. From light to dark, yellow, dark yellow, watered down blue (sky blue), light blue, dark blue, red, brown, black. I love the way the wood on the ship turned out, it fades from dark to light very well. The waves are even pretty fun. I like having the U-shaped cut on the bottom of the piece, instead of it looking like I am attempting to paint an actual scene. The red sunset pops the ship much more and I tried a little more to help out the flag.
Finally, let's get down to what I know how to do and what is going to make this ship look like Sailor Jerry himself did it - Spit Shading with watercolor! I made some tea and painted the paper with 3 coats to get the paper more antique brown. By the way, this paper is the cheap paper, not thick, and not as good quality as the other (ran out).
Then I penciled down the image (for the third time!) and threw it in my work bag. I brought a water dish, paint tray, black, red, yellow and a napkin and painted this during my lunch hour. From yellow to red to black. Also, I did not trace this with sharpie; I painted the outline with my brush. Took about an hour and a half to do the whole piece.
The trick with spit shading (for me) is to put the solid black down, clean your brush, then pull the paint outwards and it should become lighter. When your brush gets dry, use your spit to get a really controlled amount of water on your brush. You don't want water globs on a light painting like this! I tried to get the flag to look a little better... whatever, stupid flag! I think the water came out kinda cool with all of the different blacks giving a rippling effect.
I asked my painting amigo how to fade the sails better, she said that gradation is the most studied and practiced part of watercolor and acrylic and there is no super special trick. She gave me a tip which I will share. Fill with water (from your brush) the area you want to be the color, then dip your brush in paint and dab the water in spots and it should move to the corners and fade by itself... haven't tried it, just sharing the wisdom! Let me know how it works.
By the way,
I used a #3 brush for acrylic and it took an hour to paint
I used a #3 and #1 brush for the first watercolor and it took an hour or so
I used a #1 brush for the spit shading and it took about an hour and a half.
My new insights are:
"Take your time, the final product will come. The most fun is not so much looking at your finished piece as it is dreaming of what it looks like with every little stroke and dab of paint."
"Don't be afraid to try something different, it is just paper, you can always make more, who knows, it may be awesome!"
"Fading, shading, gradating, whatever you want to call it, is freakin' hard to do!"
"Flags are dumb, don't include them in your paintings unless you want them to look worse!"
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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.
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.
Let the Water Coloring begin!
I was trying to think of what wouldn't be to hard to paint, I decided on flowers. I didn't want to paint landscape, this image is actually out of a tattoo flash book! I combined the yellow flowers and vines to make the picture more interesting. I realized having a plain white background is extremely boring!! I also learned that it is ok to use water, i tried to do the cool, tattoo "spit shading" for this, but it didn't do what i hoped it would.
Attempt #2, I decided to put a background to my painting, out of the same tattoo flash book, I grabbed a few different flowers to paint, but i did my own colors. I also tried to add a Koi Fish, i don't know if it was very necessary. I used water this time for the background and most of the flower stuff. I used a little "spit-shading" on the flowers. I also was told after this painting that when you do water color, you always paint LIGHT TO DARK. that was a huge help!! Probably the best peice of advice I have heard up to this point.
Here are more flowers out of the same book. Painting the background last is not a very good idea! I tried to use the back of the brush to make a "grass-like" background, but it looks like a cat got to it. Flowers were all spit shading, so i could control the amount of water on the brush.
I did this painting much later, it was my present to my wife for our anniversary. My first painting with no previous sketch on the paper. I ended up looing up what the heck a hummingbird looks like up close online! I just went for it! I painted the background before hand and only did parts that i knew would show. Advise: paint the whole paper the same color if you are going to do a background, otherwise it has different colors in the painting where you want the same color (e.g. my hummingbird wing and top of the blue flower!). It's not the best, but it is cool because it is all out of my heart and mind, not another artists!
Attempt #2, I decided to put a background to my painting, out of the same tattoo flash book, I grabbed a few different flowers to paint, but i did my own colors. I also tried to add a Koi Fish, i don't know if it was very necessary. I used water this time for the background and most of the flower stuff. I used a little "spit-shading" on the flowers. I also was told after this painting that when you do water color, you always paint LIGHT TO DARK. that was a huge help!! Probably the best peice of advice I have heard up to this point.
Here are more flowers out of the same book. Painting the background last is not a very good idea! I tried to use the back of the brush to make a "grass-like" background, but it looks like a cat got to it. Flowers were all spit shading, so i could control the amount of water on the brush.
I did this painting much later, it was my present to my wife for our anniversary. My first painting with no previous sketch on the paper. I ended up looing up what the heck a hummingbird looks like up close online! I just went for it! I painted the background before hand and only did parts that i knew would show. Advise: paint the whole paper the same color if you are going to do a background, otherwise it has different colors in the painting where you want the same color (e.g. my hummingbird wing and top of the blue flower!). It's not the best, but it is cool because it is all out of my heart and mind, not another artists!
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