Happy New Year

The paint is still flying here .... below are some more lunchtime landscape paintings

and my final from Jackson Sze's class - think I want to take another pass at it but it's looking pretty good. The assignment was to use our on location paintings to inform a concept piece. I fused El Matador beach with the architecture at Pasadena City Hall to create a fantasy landscape. I imagine it's a civilization that worships a landscape painting god to insure clouds don't change your lighting half way through your painting. Of course ... where would the challenge be in that?

Looking forward to working even harder this year ... I'm pretty happy at the progress I've made in 2010. Continuing with the landscape painting with the hope of making a landscape painting book for APE next October. Happy New Year!

FIGURE DRAWING AT NUCLEUS

Totoro Study

Really love the backgrounds in Totoro. Did a study of one.

More Landscape Painting

Figure Drawing

Summer Busy

Summer is flying by. Been busy working with type but I'm still landscape painting everyday at lunch. Will hopefully post some soon. I feel like I'm making some real progress with color and value. Looking forward to Mike Hernandez's landscape painting workshop this weekend. The ad below was based on an outdoor design they did previously, It was a fun challenge organizing the quotes to read cleanly and still stay true to the fun look. I'm really happy with how the campaign turned out. 

CHEAT SHEET FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME

There really is no cheating in drawing or painting but I made a little "cheat sheet" for lack of a better word of some ideas that have really helped me over the last year or so. Just got around to updating it with some new stuff and thought I'd share. When I organize the information I find I retain it better. I learned most of this from classes from Rad Sechrist, Jackson Sze,  Marshall Vandruff, Bill Perkins and Walt Stanfield's notes.  

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