This week's update sees the fourth and final Work-a-Week Project painting, and the last week's Daily Doodle sketches. If you'd like to see these as they're completed every day, please Like my Facebook Page (HERE or search for Silvertales Studio in Facebook's search bar) or follow my Twitter feed (@silvertales) as I upload them there daily.
So sorry for the delay, post-con is always a rather crazy time!
Work-A-Week 2014 Project
Work-A-Week 4 (Day 27)
This piece didn't actually make the top 5 in terms of votes to be finished (it was in the top 7, though,) but I *really* wanted to work on it, and finish it in time to take prints to MegaCon (which I did!)
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Toning and building up my layers for the background with (you guessed it) Payne's Gray and Ultramarine Blue. I masked off the moon, figure, and city shape (which I added for the painting) with liquid frisket so I could just paint and not have to worry too much about keeping clean edges.
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More layers of paint for the cloudy night sky background, and adding in those defining shadows in the figure. I'm using the same mix of Payne's Gray and Ultramarine Blue for the figure.
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I used flat black India Ink for the body/mask and eyes and a mix of Cadmium Red/Alizarin Crimson for the hood/scarf thing.
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More tonal build up all around, both in the figure and in the background. You can see some of the salt sprinkled into the background for additional texture.
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Bringing the colors in the figure to life with more passes of color. I've dropped the Alizarin Crimson from the red paint blends now, to keep the hood/scarf thing warmer than the rest of the image. So, here it's all Cadmium Reds and a dash of Indian Red... and a touch of Copic markers to clean up some of the edges.
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Original Painting: $300
11x17" Watercolor, marker
Prints: $20
Like the other pieces completed this year, the sketch was enlarged from 9x12" to 11x14" and then slightly altered to work at 11x17" to take advantage of the format. I've done a lot of work in 11x17" lately, and I really like it! I've got another planned for 11x17" (that was always intended to be 11x17",) the next set of 4 in the Comic Nouveau series, and the other two Sketch-A-Day 2014 pieces that tied for 4th place that will also be done at 11x17".
Daily Doodle Batch #5:
This batch upload consists of the images from 3/17/14-3/23/14.
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I've included a commission or two from last weekend's MegaCon in the Daily Doodles, simply because I didn't really "doodle" while I was attending MegaCon, as I was busy manning my table and all the art I was doing over the weekend was convention/commission related.
If you have any questions or comments about any of the Daily Doodles, please leave them in the comments below, I'd be happy to answer any questions!! As the Daily Doodles Project is continuing throughout 2014, please feel free to leave prompts or suggestions, there are so many more days to go!! :)
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