painting of Rev. Jynxx midnite.

Ive hit some frustration in painting. Maybe I had been looking at my model too much or i was too much in hurry to try to finish it. i had to step away for a day. Its no where near done. But i have pics of my progress. the face is pretty much done, the background hat and bosy still need work. I plan to add metallic inks to it as well. im feeling much better about the painting. my sis thinks its great but thats her, shes bias. anyways here are some pics of the refrence photo as well as the apinting. it is 4 6x6 panels put together.

finished atcs and first sitting for portrait project...

the first atcs are finished!!!
some of them didn't photograph as well as i would of liked. if any one wants to trade let me know!
I did my first sitting for the portrait project. Jynxx has one of the most expressive faces that i have scene. I took a bunch of reference photos and now i don't know which ones to choose. I did a rough drawing of one of the pics. again it looks better live. i don't plan to paint this one but i really liked it so i did a drawing. the pencils are watercolor drawing pencils so i was able to have some fun with that. I'm looking forward to starting the paintings!

Artist trading cards:The girl cards

things are going forward with unnamed portrait project. Art will be put up looks like march. There will be an artist reception and on a sat with entertainment and food. Cause that's the way I roll. Sittings will be begin very soon. I can't wait. until then more self portraits.
I have been also working on artist trading cards. I have been doing abstracts and the girl cards. i have been playing with watercolor and puffy paint to add texture.and couple of them have decorative brads. ( i found a packet of Halloween brads and had some fun with them.) One pic is of two cards i plan to paint tomorrow, i did the pencil sketch today. anyway its late and i'm going to bed. there hopefully be more painting tomorrow.

welcome to my art blog.

After a long break i have decided to start painting again. The two things i want to explore is atcs. (artist trading cards) and portraits.
My first major project is my portrait project . which i still need a title for. The next three months or so I plan to paint about a dozen portraits of people I know, and for once Im going to get to paint boys, something I rarely do. I look forward to it.
So far I have 4 boys who have agreed to sit for me. Everyone of them very different in look and personality. it makes this process exciting for me.
I wont have just boys in this project, and not everyone who sits will make it in the final project which will be shown at the Royal bean coffee house in the spring.
I'm at at the beginning of this journey and like all journeys it begins with me.