The Guy~

I have this idea about this guy I met in China. There's story behind this painting, and I'll tell it after I finish.

Oh, and if this looks like a certain Bronzino portrait... that's because it's largely based on that painting. I really like Bronzino's painting, I figure it won't hurt to borrow from his poses.

Not Happy...

I'm not quite happy with this one. It doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to be. Although... I did change my mind quite a lot since I first start it. So I guess it's really not that bad, I can see a lot of places where I can make this better, but I really don't want to keep working on it. I want to paint new stuff.

So I'll leave it as finished as I care to finish...LOL. And I need to get some sleep.

Background...

The problem with background is that... It takes a long time to paint, and in the end, people hardly notice it. Ah.... It's like 4 hours work from last night to tonight, and it doesn't show at all....

but I don't want to keep working on the face, it mean, the only thing left is blending and that's what I'm trying to avoid...

You know with every painting, (almost every painting), there's a painful period when you just want to give up and start something new. Now is that period... I just have to keep pushing forward and hopefully it'll end up worth my time.

Must... Stop... Blending....

I didn't get much done tonight, mostly because I end up in my "blending" mode again.... It's just so easy to fall into that mental stage, almost like a trance or something.

Oh, and I took someone's advise, use the hair to cover up my lack of reference and knowledge of human anatomy. Now that I look at this piece, her head seems too big!!!.... ah....that's an easy change, I'll deal with it tomorrow.

Update

What I've been trying to change about my painting is the way I blend color. I feel that I blend too much. I tried very hard to learn how to blend smoothly, now I can somewhat create a smooth skin surface, I don't like it anymore. I want my brush stroke to have some character, some personality, some style in it.

So I took an old unfinished painting, and try to make something new. Used a wet edge hard round brush, no air brush no smooth... I actually kind of like it.

Irene Adler

So I start this painting as a little warm up exercise, something I do after a hiatus. I just want to paint a very strong, elegant, sexy and seductive woman. I used a Marlene Dietrich picture as reference. Halfway through when I'm adjusting her hair, she suddenly started to look like Irene Adler. I never like the woman, but I feel that she would look like this.

and as usual.... I cut conners with her clothing... and her hair... LOL.

Update

I almost abandoned this blog. Mostly because I'm lazy and impulsive.

Other than some major life changing stuff, I'm still pretty much the same.

Here's a new painting. I haven't painted anything since this February. It's quite normal with me, I'd going on a painting frenzy for a a couple of months and go into a hiatus for months... I used to get really upset about these gaps, I'd be very scared that this is the end of my painting years, that I'd lost my creativity and be a sad boring person for the rest of my life.... LOL.

But I figure this is just me being moody, lazy and impulsive. And I'll always bounce back to painting and drawing creepy girls.

Now, here's one of those girls.