White horse

This is a large painting I started using oils and Liquin. 

A video of the first stage is can be found here: https://youtu.be/PrDd7qFeA5c

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fairy's back

Oil study from a life drawing session. I painted over an old painting and whenever I do I am always surprised with the results. The tree in the background is the torso of a figure I painted before , only I flipped the painting. I like the imaginary light I added around the neck. It gives it a nymph like quality I enjoy. Sometimes I really struggle over weeks to get something even resembling this painting, however this piece came together in less than 2 hours.

Rumble

This is the original thumb nail sketch

I am using FW inks at this stage

This is not the final version. I need to work on it one more night.

Life study class

Star Wars captain phasma

Reclining nude

I painted this during my life drawing class on an 8x10 linen board.

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Daryl Dixon- Walking Dead

This is just a quick caricature I did Sunday morning over some coffee goofing around. I thought it was fun, so I'm sharing it.

Life drawing

Quick drawing with a red China marker and some pastels.

Gene Simmons

#kiss #kissnation #genesimmons #dragon
Here is a quick video of the making of the Gene Simmons/ Kiss illustration

Peru

This was a large 14 x 24" watercolor painting commissioned by the person who took the picture.I really enjoyed the colorful costumes and in particular the Llama,...and yes, I did think it was a lamb.

Below is a very quick video to show some of the process

Dr. Q

I have had people ask if I trace the image on the canvas and I actually don't have any issue with people doing that because painting is hard enough.I wanted to show just how messy it is at the begging and how the image starts to morph into the final piece.  

Although the photo I took had a slight smile, I had to add the big smirk because if you know the man he is always smiling and positive. It has been a great privilege to get to know him so well and I deeply appreciate what he does and his global mission. If you would like to find out more about it please go to this link 
http://doctorqmd.com/

#hopkins #drq #oils #portrait #traditionalart #portraiture

Thich Nhat Hanh

 I created this video to acquaint my audience with the technique I used to paint Thick Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist.I did a preliminary ink study in black and white and then I decided to enlarge it. The extended version can be found on my YouTube channel.#zen #buddhist #poet #thicknhathanh

 https://youtu.be/n2UoOjJiB7U



http://humblestudent.deviantart.com/art/Thich-Nhat-Hanh-in-color-520858416

Retiro Park

This Summer I visited Madrid, Spain.  As I strolled through the Retiro park, I took a photo which inspired me to make this painting. I was fascinated with the luminous turquoise color of the sky and the contrast of the pale violet ground. 

Its 12"x 24" oil on wood panel.

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#retiro #retiropark #madrid #spain #tree #evening #sunset

Spanish Bull 2

Here is another image that came about quickly. I have to admit that it feels free to just do something just "because".  I wanted to have a piece that would complement the other bull I just did. I start doing a quick gesture drawing to block him in

Then I quickly add some darks and realize some proportions are wrong and make the adjustments

Finally,I used Sennelier pastels and charcoals to render it. I think he is quite handsome!

#pastel #pastels #spain #bull #toro

Spanish Bull

I cannot explain why, but I had this urge to create a Spanish bull in all its Majesty in the pasture as he should be. Here are the three stages for this painting. Above on the upper left you can see the black and white reference photo. I was not sure what was going to happen when I started this piece. I painted a light wash of acrylic of olive green and burn umber to the back ground, which you cannot even see unless I pointed it out. Then I stated using charcoal and found the basic shape that I liked. I had some colored charcoal around and laid down some color very quickly.  I liked the feeling, so I kept doing that.

At this stage I can see that some of the anatomy was off, like the horn so I corrected it and added some details

A good friend noticed my bull was missing an important part of his male anatomy so I added it and put some more color all around. I really enjoyed making this painting and I how you like it too.

Available here:

http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Casta/773030/2410072/view