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Walpa Gorge speedpaint

Just a speedpaint landscape tonight. I need to get back into the swing of painting regularly. This is Walpa Gorge, Australia, painted from this reference. I painted it in a high key, meaning lots of light colors and not many … Continue reading

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A few sketches

I sat down and had my son tell me what to draw. First, he wanted a house. Then I drew a dragon flying. My daughter kept asking for a dragonfly, so that’s why there’s a dragonfly in the bottom corner. … Continue reading

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Atmospheric perspective study

Because all studies of the Grand Canyon are made better by giant alien beasties walking by in the background.

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Landscape and color flavors

It’s kind of silly to be practicing a landscape in black and white, but to be thinking about color. I made a curry chicken dish tonight, and I was thinking about how if yellow was a flavor, it would taste … Continue reading

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More on mountain practice

Fooled around with this some more. I’m getting to the point where I’m starting to overwork it. Ha ha, I just noticed that I have a paradox in the light source and shadows. Can you spot it?

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Mountains practice

I’ve been needing to work on some landscapes, so I hit up mapcrunch.com to see what Google had to offer. This gorgeous view was sitting on the front page: So I toyed with arranging the mountains into a prettier composition. … Continue reading

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Making vector pics

Here’s how I went about making that vector dinosaur pic. Vector art has to be very heavy on design, because that’s what it does very well: crisp, clear shapes. A lot of great interplay between positive and negative space. I … Continue reading

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