speed paints

I’ve been somewhat of a busy bee this week; First up, I’ve made some progress on my long grind paintings. “Ang Dalaga and the Royal Baby’s” background sketch is finished. I can almost call the line art finished, but I still have to do the Maria Clara gown for the girl. As for “The Guardian,” […]

I made progress in my two illustrations that I’m slowly grinding on. “The Guardian” is giving me trouble; Even though I cleaned up the background tremendously, it still looks too busy, unfortunately. Part of me feels I really need to simplify the background more, but I don’t want to have to go back to the […]

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sandJust like that river twisting through a dusty landAnd when she shines she really shows you all she canOh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande I can’t help it… it was playing as I write this post… sort of… I mean, Toto is playing now, […]

2020 is chugging along nicely with the speed paints, especially with the 30-minute speed paints. What I was missing, however, are my 2-3 hour speed paints. I haven’t had the chance to work on a much longer speed paint since about two days before 2019 ended. I have been meaning to get to it, but […]

Last week wasn’t very good at the art front. All I have managed to do last week was a bunch of thirty-minute speed paints. That equates to barely any kind of artwork done. The majority of last week was spent being sick, unfortunately. What was worse was that I scheduled organizing some paperwork last week. […]