Restart!

Man! It's been a while since my last post... sorry about that... went to Italy for my honeymoon which was awesome.. even caught the Sargent in Venice show which I've been bragging to whoever I meet... 30+ Sargents in one room! Whoa! Then, I was priviledged (since the show was in Venice Italy) to see some of the places he actually painted... but enough about that.. here is a quick painting to help jump start my postings... enjoy!

Lunch Break

Sorry for the loooong time no posting... been busy planning my wedding/ honeymoon (o yeah.. I'm getting married...hehehe). But I did this quick painting during lunch. Been doing some old school paintings lately... I'll post them as soon as I get of my duff... lates! ...Off to Italy come Monday for my honeymoon! Ciao!

tree field

I tried something new... well old.. but new again... we had a copy of painter at work so I did some glow brush paintings.. I like the results that I could not wait to try it out at home... so I decided to do something fairly simple... trees in a field... so I used my version of Painter all ready for the glow brush.. instead, thanks to my alla prima and plein air training (and the swirling of painters in my head... this time it's Christensen, Sargent, and Tiemens, and Mike Hernandez)... this is what happened... eh, it's always a surprise!

fashion girl

since I've been doing some dark stuff at work... I always want to keep challenging and broadening my artistic horizons...thus this fashion /cut-up inspired piece...

Paradise Lost

Hey y'all! It's been a while since my last post... too many things going on...sorry!... but I managed to do this quick painting... enjoy!

midnight still life

I told myself I was going to sleep before midnight... then I said to myself just one QUICK painting... oh wells!... btw... that's a cool no-handle mug a bought in a hot chocolate specialty shop...mmmmm... hot chocolate.

a darker side...

as some of you may see from me stuff, I am a little varied in my artistic "style." Here is a horror art piece... different I know!

an artic day

for some reason I'm into doing these "color" pieces..huh... must be from taking up watercolour or something... o wells!

impression

morning sketch... trying to evoke the aura of the California Impressionists. what do ya think?

Kraken

a little something different... my take on the sea god's uber huge pet about to eat some explorers in a submarine... sucks to be them!

figure drawings....oh my!

these were between 5-15min poses... I hope I have time to do more of these guys... they are kinda fun to do... as some of you artists out there know :)

mountain scene

Thought I'd post this one... this was done inspired from William Wendt paintings.... so good! Man I still remember the one in LACMA... I think. :)

pop!

exit

a quick post... I was inspired from the 3 Trees and Tadahiro's workshop last week in Nucleus Gallery (which rocked!)... so here is a little sketch of a girl exiting in the less glamous side of la la land... it's my version of a happy scene with a twist of lemon. :)

lunchtime sketch

me likey this lunch painting sketchies...! (hopefully more to come)

quick sketch

Did this quick sketch of my view of Westwood from my workplace on the 18th floor... yup, that's LA colors baby! Moroever, I thought a border might be cool to show the greyness of the atmosphere...

westwood starbucks

I felt like drawing after work and I was going to draw some cool ideas for a game or something...however, the scene in front of me was too good to pass up. I drew/ painted this in my Moleskin sketchbook (forgot my watercolour one at home...oops) and I learned something new... the sketchbook series has a coating! It was like painting on wax paper...argh... but the good news is that it resulted in some cool aux naturale look... okay, I think I did enough babbling today...ciao!

stop?!

he heh hehe he!

watercolour sketches

These were my first attempts at watercolour...fast little guys...did both in about 30min...trying something new... hopefully I'll get better at these... wish me luck!

Westwood at night

I started doing watercolour for the first time last week as a way to start doing quick lunchtime paintings. But tonight I started a plein air painting in front of the famous Mann Village movie theatre with my watercolours. This was a 40min painting that I cropped and finished with photoshop. Enjoy!