30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 21

wolfman-21

A little more than a week left in the 30 days and we are witnessed to a man who fears the full moon and when the wolfsbane blooms.  Larry Talbot, who is better known as the Wolfman, is the subject of today’s painting.  Lon Chaney is the actor who portrays the monster.  And he is the only actor to play the same character in all of the Universal Studio monster movie sequels.

watercolor painting

Since the movie was shot is black and white I thought I would also post the ink wash version of this before any watercolor paint was added.

wolfman-21-gray

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 20

joker-20

Day 20 and it was another hot night in California, so, I decided to keep going with the Batman movie theme and I went with his arch nemesis, the Joker.  This is the version from Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film portrayed by Jack Nicholson.  While he is not my favorite Joker in the film franchise, I can’t deny how iconic his look was.

watercolor painting

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 19

penguin-19

I’m not sure what made me want to paint this today but, I think it has to do with the heat wave running through the Bay Area in California.  It was ugly this weekend.  Danny DeVito as the Penguin kind of ugly.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 17

dont-get-cocky

For day 17 we take another trip onto the Falcon and take on some TIE Fighters in a space battle.

Watercolor paint and ink

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 16

cockpit-paint-16

Here we go into the back end of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge.  And, for some reason during my lunch break, I decided that it was time to do a new Star Wars piece.  I have done a lot of Star Wars artwork and it’s been a while since I have completed a new Star Wars piece.  I must say that it felt good to do.

We are taking a look into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon during Episode 4.

You can also take a look at the pencil drawing for this piece, here:

cockpit-16

This piece has been sold!

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 14

frankenstein-14

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 6

Vincent Price

This portrait is of Vincent Price from his roll in The Fall of the House of Usher.  The film was based on an Edger Allen Poe story and directed by Roger Corman.  The film was released in 1960 and was one of many Poe stories that Price and Corman collaborated on.  It was also when Corman was actually making some fine cinema and not just doing cheap horror and sci-fi movies.

I branched out and used some blue paint along with the limited palette of my latest paintings but I did go back to painting in oils.  But, I will probably be leaving the oil paints behind for the next painting.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 2

Mola Ram

Today’s painting is a portrait of Mola Ram, the big baddie from the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom film.  I have always been a huge fan of that film and the look of Mola Ram has always intrigued me.  Plus, the guy can reach into your chest and pull out your heart and show it to you.  Now that’s a crazy villain!  The ending section of that film where Indy goes back to the mines to free the kids is my favorite section of any of the Indiana Jones films.

For the painting process of this painting I went back to my comfort level and did this one with thin layers.  After completing the drawing I laid in the black with no medium to thin it out.  But, the rest is all painted with  thin layers of oil.  And then capped it off with some white highlights.  And for this painting I used the Zorn palette choices when picking my colors, which means I only used black, white, cad red and yellow ochre.  The Zorn palette is one I have been playing around with lately and will be popping up again this month.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days…Again…Day 1

Dick Tracy small

Well, here we go again.  I believe this is the third time I have taken on the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge at https://www.saetastudio.com/30-in-30-blog.  This time might be harder than the others because I’m coming into it without a plan.  I just recently decided to join in and I have no idea what I’m going to paint.  Usually I like to have a few pieces ready before hand to use as a cushion, but that’s not really the case this month.  One thing I am planning to do is finish some paintings that I have started but not finished.  Some of these will include some larger paintings.  Another idea I have to do some studies of work from artists I admire.  So, this month might be quite the hodge podge of pieces.  I guess we will just roll with it.

Day 1’s painting is a 5″x6″ painting of Dick Tracy as portrayed by Warren Beatty from the 1990 film, Dick Tracy.  Its is a mix of different painting media; acrylic, gouache and oil paints.  After I did the drawing on the illustration board, I did a wash of yellow acrylic paint over the whole piece.  Over that, I used black gouache for the under painting and the rest is all oil paints.

In my mind I was thinking I wanted to go for a Norman Rockwell feel to the painting, which I don’t feel came out in the piece.  I have been watching one of Quang Ho’s instructional dvds and the brush strokes, to me, feel more like his than Rockwell’s.  That said, I did really enjoy the process of painting this piece.

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