If you’re not in the mood or the place to look at buff shirtless guys, skip this post until you are!
It always feels good to get a big project behind you. I’ve had a little bit of Mountain Road up on the site here before, but a bit over a week ago I finally finished. I’ve never done a picture before that took so much planning and studying. So many flowers. So many train parts.
It is a cacophony of flora. I was so pleased to see it come together as it did in the end.
I got another interesting commission while I was painting Mountain Road, which gave me something to work on while the paint was drying. After seeing some of my academic charcoals up on eBay, I was contacted about doing some larger charcoals from various photo references. There was some changing up of heads and faces and adjustment with lighting, but it was great fun to apply classic charcoal techniques to such modern models.
The first three of those are poster-sized, at 20″x26″. The last is a pretty huge 40″x40″. I have a picture of me with my cat standing in front of it… let’s see…
A little blurry, but you get the idea.
And yes, I had to draw all these taped to my wall, because I had no board big enough for my easel (which was occupied by the train anyway!)
At any rate, if you’d like a print of anything in this post (aside from me and my cat) you can find prints at Imagekind in all different variations and sizes.
The past week or so I’ve been doing some fun digital stuff. Another update soon!