Category: Halloween

Inktober-Day 14

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When I’m feeling like everything is going wrong and I question if I’m just wasting my time by doing art, I go back to drawing monsters.  And the classic monsters are my favorites to draw.  This is the first ink drawing that I’ve done in a while that I’m pretty happy with.  For fun I also scanned the pencil drawing before the inks.

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Nightmare Before Christmas-Finale painting

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Last month during the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge, I finished this painting which I had started earlier in the year.  It’s the first painting in a series of Nightmare Before Christmas paintings I’m planning on doing.  All of them will be in this same size and format, oil on canvas.

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Inktober-Day 8

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The Wolfman claims another victim.

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Inktober-Day 3

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Inktober-Day 3

Today we have have everyone’s favorite dream haunter and child killer, Freddy Krueger.  It is pretty weird that there is such a big fan base for the guy who kills kids and teens but I guess we can thank the 1980’s for that.

Ink and ink wash

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 15

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For the halfway mark of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge I decided to go with the main baddie from my favorite classic horror movie, The Creature From the Black Lagoon.

I have some mixed feelings about this one because of the time limit I had for the piece and the amount of detail on the Gillman’s suit.  I want to get in there and draw all the scales and bumps on him but it just doesn’t make sense to do it.  Not only do I have so little time to do the drawing but I also know that it will unfortunately disappear underneath the gouache paint.  And that’s exactly what started to happen on this one.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 14

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From painting beauties for the last 6 days, to painting a beast.

This is a gouache painting of Frankenstein’s monster from the Universal Studios classic film, staring Boris Karloff.  I’m not sure I’m completely happy with the results of this because of the gouache paints.  Especially after using watercolors for the last week.  I really enjoyed using watercolors, but, I think I will stick with gouache for a few more this week.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 8

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I have to admit that today was the hardest so far for the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge.  My original painting did not turn out the way I wanted and I decided to not post it.  And I had no plans to start a new piece today after a long day at work.  But, I thought I should try and give it a shot.  The drawing of this piece was really fighting me.  I didn’t know what type of paint I wanted to use on it after the questionable results I have been getting on previous paintings.

One thing I have been trying to pay attention to on social media is the number of followers some artists are getting on Instagram.  I’ve found some representational oil painters who have over a hundred thousand followers and I was shocked.  That is the highest I’ve been seeing for artists.  I have also noticed that all the highest, I’ve seen, are oil painters and water color painters are not even close in followers.  This is starting to make me think I need to focus on oil painting and stop using these other types of paints.

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