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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 13

pinup-13

Day 13 and here is the sixth vintage pinup style painting for this month. I think this will be the last one in this series. I’m not quite sure what tomorrow will bring subject wise. This is because I am still drawing and painting these on the same day that I’m posting them. I will admit that this is not a smart way to take on one of these challenges. I have also noticed that football season starting has not helped me with getting these done.

Another watercolor painting using the Zorn color palette that I have been using for most of the paintings this month.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 12

bettie-12

Today we have a painting of the queen of the pinups, Bettie Page. Another watercolor painting using the Zorn color palette that I have been using for most of the paintings this month.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 11

pinup-11

Day 11=another retro pinup watercolor painting.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 10

pinup10

Day 10=another retro pinup watercolor painting.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 9

meet-cecil

Meet Cecil

After yesterday’s painting of a retro pinup girl watercolor painting, I thought I would do another one with that same vibe. The photo reference I used for this painting caught my eye because it included one of my favorite cartoon characters, Cecil. He is one of the stars of The Beany & Cecil show. This cartoon originally ran from 1959-1962 and then made a brief return in the late 80’s by the creator of Ren & Stimpy. Needless to say, when I saw this photo I had a bit of a mind blown moment and quickly saved it and filed it away for possible use in the future.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 8

haunted-pumpkin

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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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 5

Hood

While I stayed with my same color palette so far, this time I decided to use water color paint for this day’s painting. But, I did run into a problem that made this painting a bit challenging. I used a spray fixative to seal the drawing and that made the water color paint bead up and made for a very streaky result.

Oh well, I guess there is always tomorrow.

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30 Paintings in 30 Days-Day 4

Rick Grimes TWD

This painting for the fourth day of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days is a portrait of the leader of the group of survivors on the tv show, The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes. He’s not someone who has experienced much good luck in the time of the walker outbreak.

Once again, I’m stickimg with the limited Zorn palette of black, white yellow ocher and cad red oil paints. This picture started off just as a pencil drawing(that you can find a photo on my Instagram account). I felt like it got a luke warm reception and I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go with it. Since I was planning on finishing some stuff that was laying around I figured I would slap some paint on it.

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