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yo, a quick sargent study, wish i could have done justice to those come to bed eyes, yeouch!

rembrant study

yo folks, todays effort, a rembrant study from crap internet ref, can never get the eyes to look in the right direction. buh!

different process for me,

initial lay in hard ragged edged airbrush, soft airbrush, median filter on lowerd opacity,
more soft airbrush, flat rough oil brush moving toward definition, make ragged hair type brush,
redefined hair and darker areas. details and definition, hard round watercolor brush on many layers, lowering opacity to suit.

4 hrs later, a spaced out rembrant looking like he's wondering if he's left the oven on.

there ya go fellow geeks! hup

orpen study

Yo folks, great to see my old Del9 Amigos and Cartoon Saloon fiends down in a lashing rain at the Galway film festival, who won?

Heres a 3 hour detail study of a three hour study by William Orpen of Sean keating.
One rough oil brush at 100% opacity, trying to commit to a correct tonal range and order them right up to the highlight, aint got it yet but its the way to go. (have a goo at the original, both of these guys were masters at it)
hup!

news involvng feet

"The Secret of kells" wins audience award at Edinburgh film festival!
Go on the lads! hup!
http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/

Also check out the wicked work of mentalist mate Mick Harrison

Random quote,

"Here we are then. Me and owd Wilco there. A wonderful selection of garments, all hand cooked using feet"

utterly picturesque incomprehensible genius, the best dude to imbibe with this side of Flann O Brien.
There is but one...

http://zeteos.blogspot.com/
http://mickcartoons.blogspot.com/

redo's

A 'lil bit of added color and design to some previous works.

portrait studies

Heh folks, takin part in the international portrait month over at http://www.conceptart.org/, great thread, great inspiration.

Here are two portraits from life, my bro and my smelly elf, also a master study of a self portrait by Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida. A friend of Sargent and influenced by Velasquez. Needless to say, I'm a big fan of his fluency with a brush. Back soon with more.

Peace,

Ray