The Beach!!!

Venice Beach


Zuma Beach

I think I went to the beach four days in a row...
I tried to squeeze in some paintings. Why is water...so damn hard?!

Hmm, regarding the bottom painting, i think i should have made the foamy water more brown and then...slowly turn to blue-green

Vasquez Rocks

Well here's my first full palette oil painting :// could've definitely used a couple more hours on this. (9x12)

Second Attempt at Oil Painting

Try not to laugh too hard. Went to zuma beach yesterday. This is my second oil painting (my first one is too embarassing)

Still don't really know what I'm doing but...I think I'm making a little progress. Just gotta do more I suppose. As far as the composition goes.....I feel like I spent more time figuring out how to use these oils so I hope the composition works.

Dude, He's in the Barn!!

"Dude, I swear he's in that barn"

Ok so.......I finally finished this thing. I've been working on it off and on for the past week. Something still bothers me about the final composition and I don't know what. I'm still trying to get used to painting straight color.

Oh yeah, I included some thumbnails of the process.

Trying to Get My Paint On

What I've been up to the past couple of days. Each took around 1.5 hours or so (battery life of my laptop)

Top to bottom:

Went to the Griffith Park Observatory and painted with Shaddy and his buddy. Lighting was not really ideal for the angle but whatevs.

Tried to get the "essence" of that tree. God that one was frustrating.

Saw some interesting tree trunks + branches in front of a building next to the park...not too sure if I caught their sexiness...but I tried.

Well if anyone reads this and wants to go paint with me, just hit me upppp.

Baseball Field

Today I went to the park with Kyle. We saw a few kids playing baseball and thought it'd be cool to paint them....and seal them in our paintings forever haha.

Clover Park

Clover Park is pretty awesome. Tons of different trees.
Top composition was around 3pm.
Bottom composition was around 6 pm

Man those colors are super hard to match...I think the real thing was a litttleeee less saturated. I had a lot of trouble rendering some of these trees too. I think I suggested them "enough" though.

Gonna try to head over to the park a couple times a week.

Digital Plein-air Painting

The top and bottom were from my window. The middle is from imagination. These are my first paintings from life, hopefully they'll get better as I do more.

Cartoon Backgrounds...Finally!!

Well, I can finally post up some cartoon stuff since we learned how to clean up our designs in Illustrator.
Don't mind the "studio" logo...we had to put one for the assignment.

Day and night keys for a background.