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30 Paintings in 30 Days- Day 2

What I was worried about happening with day 1 came true. My Moleskin painting project hit a snag when it comes to drying times. So, it looks like I will have to pepper those in throughout the month along with other paintings.

That brings us to today. I love the 1980’s and a lot of the things that I draw and paint have a tie to that time period. Growing up in the 80’s has exposed me to many things that have stuck with me and I still enjoy today. One of those things are toys and this painting is based on one of those toy lines, The Madballs. Screamin’ Meemie is the name of this character. He is the second character from the toy line that I have recently painted.

I have plans to do a series of art and posts detailing the history of several 1980’s toy lines and I will go into the Madballs toys and histories then. This will begin in January and I plan to run this for all of 2018.

This piece started as a ink drawing on a gessoed panel. The under painting was in watercolor paint and then glazed with oil paint.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days 2017- Day 1

It’s September again and that means the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge is upon us. And, I thought I would give it a go. I believe this is my third time and I did complete 30 paintings on the last two challenges. That did not come easy and this time looks to be even more challenging. Not only will I be away on a trip 3 days next week, I’m also creating work for a one man show in Oakland, CA on October 7th. And to finish off October, I’m tabling at my first convention, Famous Monsters of Filmland-Halloween Bash in San Jose, CA.

So, there will be quite a bit of stress going on this September. But, I will try not to drive myself too crazy with this 30 day challenge. My original idea was to do 30 portraits, in oil paint, in a Moleskin journal. I figured it would be a good size and challenge to try for this. Here is the image of the drawing prepainted.

This is a portrait painting of the actress, Jennifer Connelly. I have always been a fan of her from when I first watched the movie, Labyrinth and The Rocketeer(2 of my favorite movies). She also has a very classic Hollywood, beauty look that is very appealing. Those are some of the reasons why I chose to paint her. And that is a theme I plan to use with these Moleskin journal paintings.

But, I learned something important with this painting. Since I am not really painting ahead, These paintings wont dry in time to be scanned and posted. It looks like I’m going to have to pepper in some other types of paintings to be able to do this. Well, I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 30

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She Changed Her Mind (And Her Feelings For Me)

This is the last painting for the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge. I made it through the whole month and didn’t miss a day. While, I’m proud that I hit the 30 paintings mark, I’m not sure I am completely happy with the results. I could see that my interest was waning in the last week or so with most paintings. And a lot of it was because I was growing bored with doing quick paintings. I did enjoy working with watercolor paints quite a bit this month and I’m not sure where to go next because I also would like to do more oil paintings (like today’s painting) and gouache. I was hoping at the end of this challenge I would walk away knowing what paint media I would like to go to in the future. Today’s painting is one that has been around for a couple of months and it has been a struggle. I struggled with the subject matter and the technique. But, I made myself finish it last night just in case I wussed out on sharing it today.

I can say that for October, I will be participating in challenge of doing an ink drawing everyday of the month. It’s an online challenge called Inktober. Much like the 30 Days challenge, I’m heading into it by the seat of my pants, with nothing predrawn. So, we will see what comes out of it.

oil painting with white charcoal on a toned mat board

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 29

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One more to go!

This watercolor painting is of characters from season 2 of the Netflix show, Daredevil.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 28

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Another watercolor painting of the star of the new Netflix show Luke Cage. He was also a main player of the Jessica Jones Netflix show. He is played by Mike Colter.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 27

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This portrait for day 27 is of Krysten Ritter from the Netflix tv show, Jessica Jones. She plays the title character, Jessica Jones. The show is based on the Marvel Comics character.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 26

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Another step closer to 30 paintings.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 25

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Here we have a watercolor painting of Indiana Jones. I did not initially plan to do this piece just in black and white, but as I started laying in the black shadows i just kind of kept going with it. I think it turned out alright.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 24

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This was more of a study and less of a make a good painting kind of day. I am still playing around with gouache paint, trying to decide on which I prefer more, watercolor or gouache paints. At this point I feel like I get better results with watercolor paints. And the reason why I painted a skull today? I was listening to Chris Oatley talk about how a good exercise to do is to draw a skull a day for a while so I thought I would give it a go.

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