Month: January 2016

Day 3- A Day at Disneyland-30 Paintings in 30 Days

Castle watercolor                    6″x6″ water color and acrylic ink on illustration board

  Today’s painting brings us to a spot by the moat of the castle at Disneyland.  There are a few statues that surround the moat and this is one of them.  I took this photo on one of my trips to DLand.  This was completed before I had fully decided to go with the acrylic ink/colored pencil/oil paint style that I did on the last 2 paintings.  I thought this one came out pretty good and when I showed people these 3 paintings everyone really liked the Fozzie Bear painting and not this one.  That made me think I should stick with that process and not this watercolor style.  The life of an artist haha.

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Fozzie Bear- Day 2 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Fozzie Bear
6″x6″ acrylic ink, colored pencil and oil paint on illustration board

Alright, day 2!

I am a big fan of Jim Henson and many of his creations and have grown up always loving the Muppets.  And, doing artwork of the Muppets is not a new thing for me.  I really enjoy creating art from these characters, be it Muppets or characters from the Dark Crystal or Labyrinth.  I just realized that I have been ignoring the characters from Fraggle Rock and I should probably do something about that!  Muppet portraits will be one of the subject matters for me during this 30 day challenge.  Starting off with Fozzie is a great place to begin.  If I were to rank my favorite Muppets I think Fozzie would be right near the top.  While his jokes are typically groan worthy, he is very lovable.  First off, visually, I love his texture.  His fur is crazy.  And he rocks the polka dot scarf!  I also remember him having issues with people throwing bananas at him which has not been a subject that has been brought up recently.  On the outside he is a crazy guy saying “wocka wocka” and getting up on stage to tell jokes, but on the inside he is very self conscious.  I think artists can relate to putting your work out for everyone but being very self conscious about it.

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