Just Playin' Around

Well, I've been having fun with my camera lately... 

so I thought I'd post a couple photos to let you see what I was up to :)

Faces faces faces

So... I have this weird thing with faces lately... 

Abstracted, color-infused, kinda posterized faces. 

Don't ask me why. 

It's probably an artist thing: you just find something that appeals to your inner self, and you run with it until you figure out what it is that appeals to you about it, and then you take that and move on to better things.

Anyway, I decided to get on Gimp today and mess with some photos, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I felt they took too long (only about 20 minutes each, haha, talk about impatient). 

I'm thinking of using them as inspiration or references for some oil paintings. I used the same method to paint the photos that I use to paint with oils, so it was a nice little experiment "converting" manual skills to the digital sector of art.

I hope to take it a little further, but for now, I might mess around more with other faces :)

Any thoughts?

BEST OF 2012

Well, 2012 was an awesome year, art wise. Non-art-wise, too, but since this is an art blog... I'll keep that to myself.

Here are some of what I consider my best works from 2012. I definitely learned a lot this year, but had less 'finished' pieces than normal, so that was a little weird, but overall, I'm pretty happy with what I've discovered.

Feel free to comment, critique... I am open to all ;)  Enjoy!

2013!!

Well, the first painting of 2013 is officially up, and the new tab is there, too!!

And now, I will introduce *DRUMROLL PLEASE* the first painting of 2013:

"Mandala in Green, Purple, and Blue"

Background? One day I randomly felt like painting a mandala, and so I did. Pretty simple.
I'm probably going to do the same design but with different color patterns for the sake of exploring the effect of colors of a close proximity on each other and on the actual perception of the elements of the design. It should be fun, but a little bit of a pain in the... behind.

That's because mandalas (at least the way I learned how to make them) are created by taking either a sixth or an eighth of a circle (like a piece of pie) and creating a design on it. Then, you transfer this design to another paper by tracing one side, flipping the pattern, and tracing that side, then flipping it over again, all the way around the circle. Then, you shade it, paint it, whatever. All that tracing and flipping and painting seriously tests my patience ;)

The one I painted is extremely simplified compared to some mandalas out there: I'm pretty lazy. Maybe someday I'll get around to painting a really intricate one... but the problem is that I care much, much more about the color than I do about the form. Since I'm still learning I should really focus on form to get the concept down, but I'm not THAT self-disciplined.

Anyhow, I'd like to explore more with 'em. We'll see, I suppose...