Here are a few paintings that I finally finished for an cultural Ecuador painting project that I have been working on. Both of these kids are from the quichua culture and were taken by me near the city of Otavalo during the summer of 2011.
Isa was happy to help me and pose for this painting. She lasted about 3 hours, and told me she could come in again today, but I let her off the hook and just finished it up from photo references. One of my goals this summer is to paint from life as much as possible I hope you enjoy my newest painting. It is for sale for $325. So, I finally am getting back to painting. During the school year I do small projects with the students, but I am finding more time to actually paint now that the summer has come. This is a painting that I started about a year and a half ago, and I finally finished it. It is a picture of my niece Hannah. I will try to update my blog more often, at least through the summer.
Well, I still have much to do for my final show, but after several months of work, here is one painting in its final stages. I have done a few more touch ups on it, bu here it is shown mostly complete.
This is a painting of my good friend Gustavo and his son Aaron. Here I am striving to depict the bond of love between father and son. The boys face is almost done, but if you notice the color and skin tones on the father are a little too orange.
So this will be a painting depicting a father and daughter at work watering flowers. This isn't the best photograph of this painting, but I am betting close with my values, but I am far from finished with color. Right now their faces are bland and sloppy. The color is very cold, and this will be fixed as I paint on my final layers of paint.
So here you can see part of my painting process. This is what I call my underpainting. It is actually my second layer of pretty thin paint. All I am trying to do here is to paint basic colors and values. If I can get as close as I can It makes the rest of the painting process much easier. In this stage I use as big of brushes as I can get away with, and I strive to work quickly, not fussing too much about making anything perfect.
This painting is of my wife and daughter (they are actually in their Halloween costumes). To me it is meaningful because it represents Women and their ability to do great things, but how motherhood if viewed from the wrong perspective can be viewed as a burden. In all actuality being a mother is the highest calling and responsibility on this earth, and together mother and daughter can achieve greatness. My wife Tally will attest to the fact that being a mother isn't easy. It is a responsibility that never goes away. So Isa (my daughter) is depicted right there at her legs, peering around the corner. OK, so I havn't been very dilligent at showing the paintings that I am working on, so I will get started now so you can see what I have been working on.
So I hope that this art blog can be a way of tracking my progress as an artist and I hope that it can be helpful to those of you who are interested in my current projects. Enjoy!
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