Post #613330 by little lost tiki on Wed, Nov 9, 2011 7:20 AM

Hey Mike!

i think it's a toss-up
Cat Stevens or Pablus!
i think Pablus would be cheaper to hire....

Thanks for that lift in my morning,buddy!
:)

tigertail-
Books are my salvation and enemy
Sometimes i'm reading when i should be painting
but ain't curiosity a BIG part of it?
That drive to learn and research and explore is a LARGE part of the art on this end...

As for process...there's many approaches

a colored ground and lightly drawn (in water-soluble pencil) before painting
the usual gesso,pencil drawing,and build-up of washes
gesso drawing acrylic then paintpen
there's a number of approaches depending on the medium
mood
and what i want to convey...

for that study for the hidden Village
i just used a Copic brush pen and freehanded it
(and hoped for the best...-Confidence is a good trait to have during this stage)
and then layed cel-vinyl over the outlines in washes
not my usual approach,but i wanted a nice blackline to photograph
so that was the route i took........

i'll explain this current piece more below....

I have an opaque projector that i use ONLY when transferring a sketch to a bigger size...because most artists are comfortable with about 3 "scales" of drawing
3 sizes that they're comfortable with
that their hands and body language responds to the best....
All the other sizes...go with the opaque...
i usually trace the projected image and trace it out with a water-soluble pencil
that way i can wipe it clean before applying the acrylic and then there's no
underpainting showing thru....tho i do let the underpainting show on some pieces i approach differently...like Bruegel,if you look closely at his pieces...

Most of it,for me,is just experiment,and keep what works...

As for this new one
i took an unlikely approach because of necessity

i started sketching on the wood (lightly sanded)
but the pencil was waaaaaay too light to get a feel for the image as a whole
so i just started freehanding with an indigo paintpen..
Here's what i came up with....

and a close-up

After that was done,i began laying in washes of acrylic and cel-vinyl
i can already see the problems this will cause
as the paint is opaque at times and musses up the clean outline
but i'll cross that bridge when i get to it....
Hopefully ,by applying indigo washes i can alleviate that later
but we'll see.....
i may just paint over the whole dern thing
if it gets too troublesome....

Here it is with the initial red-orange-pink wash
and some turquoise
and some med olive

and a close-up so you can see the corner I've painted myself into...

More trials and tribulations later
but so far the disadvantages of painting it this way
are manageable...
So we'll see...
Fortune favors those who DARE,eh?
:)