Creativity Post 6

Here's the finished product. One challenge I faced here was using less black on the face and hands. I typically use a lot of black and it creates a more cartoon like effect. In this case I was going for more of a realistic look and was challenged to find ways to paint the hands and face without it. I came up with several color blends of gray and skin tone colors as well as a new technique I just came up with which is creating lines or shade with a pencil and then painting over it. The lead smudges and can't be discerned as being pencil drawn but just looks like another shade of paint. This also helped me to be more detailed with the fine point of the mechanical pencil. All in all, this turned out really well and I was very happy with it.

Creativity Blog 5

I'm working on this painting for an auction to help the Georgia crew team. It's on a much larger canvas than I normally work with so it's taking me quite some time to get through. I've put somewhere between 10 - 15 hours in what you see so far. There's an interesting question that's raised here about artist's rights and so on. I was watching something that talked about taking an image and changing it and whether or not that gave the new artist the rights to it or not. This might be a case where the new image is not changed quite enough from the existing one. But I did try to exercise my creativity by substituting the Superman emblem for something new. I'll post back later with an update on my progress.

Creativity Blog 4

This might be my favorite painting that I've ever done. My big struggle has been that I have to look at things to paint and that can be seen as a lack of creativity. Laney had the great idea that I could paint still lifes or to reproduce scenes from life rather than reproducing images. I think it's a great idea and that it makes me feel a little more justified as an artist who is not just ripping off other artists but doing something a little more creative and original. I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Creativity Blog 3

So far my creativity is kind of taking the route of me learning to take liberties with the way I paint. This is a painting of The Flash, a fictional character who possesses super speed. There was a very basic picture that I looked at to get the general idea of what I would paint. The liberties that I took were in how I would make him look fast. A lot of the streak lines and shadow lines that give the illusion of speed were personal decisions. I thought this was a good idea for me because they were kind of free form. It's not like the human face where people know what to expect when they look at one. People don't always know what they expect to see when something is moving at "light speed" so that helped me to be able to have a little more freedom in the way I painted this.