Category Archives: Painting

Over Christmas

(Click for large image)   New image! It is Krampus! Apparently, Krampus is more popular than I thought – there was even a gallery in which one of my instructors participated. Of course he had the most awesome one.   Anyway, it’s mostly in oil. I couldn’t give him the bundle of birch branches because […]

Happy holidays

I wanted to give a friend a Welcome to Night Vale poster, specifically the one designed by Rob Wilson. However, it was too late to order before Christmas, so I painted the iconic image which I very much hope is not infringement. This will definitely not be on the main site, but I wanted to show […]

Skulls

I thought, ‘Why do I suck at getting the likeness of people when I’m surrounded by them? What if I paint a skull without reference?’ Everyone has a skull, so I thought that if I cannot do one, then it may partially explain my problem.   I gave myself 20 minutes to paint on a […]

This blog has a painting now

  The assignment here was to listen to an opera and make a poster, sans text. I chose a classic comedy, “The Barber of Seville” (or “Il barbiere di Siviglia“, since it’s in Italian).   At first, when my idea was to have the main characters together, I had trouble bringing in Figaro, the titular […]