First a net honey with horse.

A recent Hipbone Studio session (two nights actually)

A canyon photo from a CD of pictures that came with a program -the vast majority of which were junk. Trying to slather more (see Edgar Payne). This had an ochre yellow undertone that largely disappeared.


And a copy of a Jean Beraud from a couple years ago. Ahh the Belle Epoque -I'm thinking the poo scraper was pretty glad to have the gig. When it was done I found her head/torso too high and left. So- plan a head.

[and the layout software still bites]

First a still-landscape of hostas in my backyard in mid-summer.



a copy of a photo of some callas from somewhere. A lot of thin layers -took forever.


2 babes - the first is goth grrl again and the second is a good likeness if one isn't particular about the placement of features. I'm still not sure just what went wrong.





Been using a 3/4" soft brush a lot --wet-in-wet with fairly thin layers. So far we're getting along well, with no splaying. This last was mostly done with it -its an Alaska photo from wetcanvas.com.

forgive me father, its been 3 months since my last post.

goth grrl -mmhmm

recent one from Hipbone studio -with some aftertweaks to make her head match

found photo (boy, but I'm sure he gets asked all the time)

flower photo from wetcanvas.com

photo from who knows where
some weird colors that photo'd even weirder

a couple from Hipbone Studio recently:

Both had pose-shifting problems. The gal on the left had an offbeat beauty that came out too harsh somehow. I saw the next day how the hair treatment kinda underscored the whole George Washington thing. d'oh

A quite unauthorized copy of a Kathryn Stats out of a magazine. Reached the limits of my patience but I really admire her control of color.

Another found photo:

And a Velasquez back when I could handle such things.

Washington Park in the fall.

some portraits from photos

these are a flattered a bit by the photos which can even out my blotchy skin tones. The last gal has some eye position problems -poor thing.

his challenge was how the color would fade to near gray in subtle ways- while avoiding muddy color

And one from the Japanese Garden from last year that I've tinkered with a few times.

net photo again -trying some things from a great book of Zhaoming Wu's work I got recently.

-softer darks and blending the subject with the background- also pushing the color here and there.

recent session at Hipbone Studio

Hoyt Arboretum from a while back.

and a copy of a Morgan Weistling I gave my mom.

couple more net kittens:

Port. Japanese garden. The rock on the left is still making trouble for some reason- looks sloppy.

from a net photo- Merced river in CA I think

gaaak! -this layout screen

is just rand

om

another from a Hoyt Arboretum photo.

23X16

a one-nighter figure from Thurs night at Hipbone studio.




















and an Frank Frazetta copy a year or two back. He claims he did these without source material or models- just pulled them out of his head. Amazing.

from a Hoyt Arboretum photo. Color seems a little oversaturated when seen in daylight.

and a copy of a Thayer from last year.

new year

portrait study from a net

photo -at halfway and done.

As is common I've added a couple years to her, but I figure if it were a commision I'd do like the shoe salesmen.

"Trust me, dey'll grow into it"

and a landscape from Crystal Springs Garden

and may I say again

these layout tools are worth every penny.