The Raven - shadows and highlights

The girl has yellow highlights and blue shadows, the raven has blue shadows and green highlights. The green is more like iridescence. Colored inks, like before.

Raven Painting - Filling in skin tone

Adding color with inks. The skin is always the hardest, because you notice immediately if it isn't smooth. Also, the color is hard to get when you're mixing your own colors. But anyway, it's a good start!

Wrap Skirt Progress and More Paintings

The sides all sewn together, and hooray, it fits!
Now cutting out the interfacing for the lining of the waistband.


Also: Two more paintings in the sketch phase. I've touched up the sketches and sealed in the graphite with gesso entirely on the top one, and about halfway on the second one.

Pickles and Painting

A batch of pickled jalapeños.

A sketched out painting! It's two canvases side by side, and both were severely smudged. The one on the right I painted gesso over the smudges and lightly over the lines. I started doing that to the one on the left as well.

Yes. Today was a varied day.

WAY

A logo I did for the band that my sister and I have - The Way of the Rabbit. This is acrylic paint on canvas paper. It's going on a pair of T-shirts, and I'm pretty sure it'll look good like that. Who knows tho.

Painting

Finished this a little while ago, took about a year. God, I was so blocked on this. And I don't really like it as it is now, but I refuse to do any more work to it. (^_^)b

Here is that princess on acetate that I was working on earlier. Unfortunately, the pic of the coloring in progress didn't turn out, so I'm just posting the final version.


For those of you interested in the technique, here it is. I started with a sketch of the princess, with a basic idea of what the background was. I did this for a contest (which I probably wont win because they'll most likely pick a fan art piece instead of an original art, something that I only found out about after I finished this picture and am infuriated about but anyway...) so I had a basic theme to think about. Then I put the sketch under acetate and inked it with india ink. I had to flip the sketch so that she would come out facing the right direction in the end. Then I used an exact-o knife to cut various origami and Japanese wrapping papers to the right shape and pasted them onto a sheet of hemp paper that I taped onto the underneath of the acetate. I also used some acrylics to make a water color look.

Hey, we hit 200 posts 2 posts ago! Woot!

Yellow Snake Design

Yellow snake design I painted on the back of my notebook with acrylic paint. All hail!

Ya Ya

I painted this on the front of my notebook. YA YA, MAAN!!! acrylic.

Hawk

Or eagle, if you prefer. Been making a comic that uses paint for coloring, and this painting is the result of me having far too much brown paint on my palette. (>_>) I had the outline of the bird in my sketchbook, so I didn't have to waste anything.


(acrylic paint, 2007)

Hippo Dude

Hippo! Acrylic on... paper... yes, i'm ashamed of painting on paper...

Disgruntled Crab

Acrylic on canvas. 2003. I gave this to some kid as a present because he came to school crying and cried all day long.

Godzilla

Acrylic on canvas. 2003

Robot Dude

Robot man. Acrylic on canvas.

Apple Tree

This is a small version of the one I painted on the kitchen table. >_> Well, the underneath of the kitchen table, because it's made out of glass and you can see the tree without scratching it off. ^_^ I used acrylic paint for both the glass and this piece of computer paper. Oh yeah, and the paper wrinkled up a hell of a lot, so this was pretty difficult to scan. -_-

See the bunny!

This painting was done with traditional sumi-e stuff. The brush, the ink stick, the rice paper. I think that the people who do the traditional paintings would be appalled at my method and subject matter. ^o^ But you know, each to their own.