Horns Process

Limited palette experiment

I tried a new thing! the thing was using a very limited set of colours to complete a painting in photoshop:

This was the set palette i chose to use and i did not create it- i found it Here

 I chose to use this photograph as reference- i don't own it and i can't find the source now i'm sorry.

And this is it complete! Really enjoyed it actually- got really bored doing the flowers though... Photoshop CC, Wacom Bamboo A5 

I think i'll carry on doing the limited colours thing, it worked out really well and i think that it somehow made the process more fun and challenging for me.

Penguin- mermaid??

Not really sure where this came from, call it a painting on a whim. Photoshop CC

An experiment...

I made this in a programme called Art Rage 4 which simulates sort-of real life physics for traditional art materials... doesn't mean i entirely understand how to use them though :P It's pretty rough and ready but i think the better parts of it, like the actual portrait, make it a bareable finished piece for me... at any rate i can't spend any more time on it! 

My aim was to try and fit lot's of different media into it- to test the programme, but also so i could go for realistic skin and face, and more stylised hair- which are my favourite things.

I was inspired by this  photograph which i don't own: 

I made this tiny sketch to try and work out what i wanted the final to look like. I actually drew this having already finished the hair and face in Art Rage. I didn't know what i wanted her clothes to look like or how i was going to frame her, but i knew i was going for a Gustav Klimt look.

I used this painting by Klimt near the end of my process as reference for her clothes and line work.

Lady Gaga's face

(Reference from a still from the official music video for "Bad Romance")

(Oil on canvas)

FINALLY, this has been over a year in production, and i gave up and painted over it a couple of times, before finally just wanting my floor clear of jars and palettes and newspaper and knuckling down. It was done before Christmas but then i had no means to photograph it with, now it's finally reached the interwebs with the help of my cousin Andrew Lawson!

I really enjoyed recreating the blur vs focus in the still i worked from, and working in such high contrast was fun but expensive in terms of titanium white tubes of paint ¬_¬ I get the feeling i overworked this one though, simply because of the length of time it took to complete which comes hand in hand with being both perfectionist, lazy and temperamental ... sigh.

I haven't planned a new painting yet, I have an idea for a subject but i want to try it digitally.