I just really wanted to do a painting with a buffalo in it for some reason. I think we were talking about the sentence “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” at work or something. Anyway, I got started on this one here. I kind of like where it’s going so far. Looks like it’ll be fun to paint. This is just a wash of burnt umber to get the lights and darks right before I start adding color. Large photo after the jump!

Read the entire post.

Here’s the progress I’ve made on Painting 4. I worked on the boot, figure eight with flowers, baseball, bow tie and more. There’s a ways to go on this one though. I’m really happy with the baseball and the boot. Getting into some really fun stuff! Larger picture after the jump.

Read the entire post.

Picked up some steam on this piece. Painted a big partial devil face and a pair of dice and a lot of other elements too. I’m really happy with both of those. Some of the extra elements will definitely be changing as the painting comes together. There’s a big wheel full of stuff that I think turned out horrible. And the big yellow diamond will become a kind of street sign. Hopefully. A larger, but crappy, pic after the jump!

Read the entire post.

I started laying down the color on this one. These are so intricate that I usually don’t take the time to do value studies or anything, I just paint right over the line drawing. I do this mostly just to save time because these take so long to do. I go item by item sometimes only doing one a sitting. It’s really frustratingly slow sometimes, but I really enjoy these. The Mario mushroom was really a pain to draw and get right, I had to use a grid system to get the pixels right, but I love how it turned out. Really at that point I just had to get the colors right and stay in the lines. See a larger image after the jump.

Read the entire post.