Day of the Dead Skull

After observing pieces my artist idol Jason Lambert, my wife said I should paint a "day of the dead" skull. You know me, I'll take any challenge that comes my way, so that is what I did... and this is the result. I really like how it came out. I used the water color tray again, I figured "why mess up a good thing?" I have had such success recently, I feared going back to liquid.

The blue was a pain, it didn't come out very well in the picture. Also, be kind your judgment of the black eye shading, it kept getting wet and lightening up (this was 3 coats of black). I decided to put my name in the background, and figured what the heck, and threw C.A.'s name in there too! I think I may be doing more "day of the dead" theme paintings in the near future... it reminds CA of "Little Big Planet"! holla if your an LBP fan! Until next time... Remember Your Death!

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!

Water Color Tray with imagination

I decided to paint a bit on my lunch break between classes, so i sat on a bench and just went for it. I thought of a romantic night in France, which inevitably leads me to thinking about the ocean and waves! My sketch paper is not exactly water color ready, as you can see! I recently went out and got a watercolor field pad and i am looking forward to using it in the near future! hopefully it will be full by the end of Christmas!

Conservatory

I bought a water color tray so i could travel and sketch whatever i see in a quick amount of time, instead of using water color tubes. I went to the Cincinnati Conservatory and had a blast sketching the waterfall and some different plants that caught my eye. I really liked using a tray!