When deciding on images I wanted to paint for the 6" x 6" exhibition I thought about my previous whale and boy illustration, and wondered how I could squeeze these characters into a more confined square space. I'm often cropping images down, but this forced me to think about how the image related to the edges of the board, and I liked how this influenced the work.Here are a few process photos. For info on paints and technique please see my 'Undone' post.
37 comments:
This is lovely! I also took a look at your "Undone" post. I love to see processes and you showed yours beautifully. Great work!
Very sweet and dreamy. I especially like the scalloped edges on the waves!
this is simply wonderful ... *chapeau*
This is so great! love the illustration and the technique!
beautiful illustration! The woodgrain showing through adds a nice touch.
Your work is quite beautiful as usual! Amazing illustration!
Beautiful work, love the blue tones!
thanks everyone!
Angela: I´m really glad that I found this blog, there are great ilustrations here!Happy 2010!
Flor
Really lovely, Angela, & fun to see the work in progress! I think the image got stronger in confinement, & I love the textures. I'm excessively fond of the 6"x6" format myself... there's something just-right about it.
I could look at this all day. Wonderful characters and technique.
Fantastic dreamy art, Angela!
Lovely whale!!
i like very much your style
Angela it is wonderful.
Love Renee xoxo
Adorable illustration!The style is wonderful!
Wow this looks fantastic Angela!
Wonderful.
Save the whales!
Beautiful illustration and thank you for showing the process.
really love this one! and thanks for sharing the process.
yes, likewise and thanks from me too
thi is fantastic, love your wonderful style and imagination!!!
nice to see you didnt achieve the effect through a photoshop filter, what material are u painting on.
I love this painting! SO creative! I think the whale is so sweet and the boy looks comfortably confined with his friend. Very nicely designed.
Your sweet whale and boy are just amazing, Angela. I really, really love those swirls too - you are like a contemporary woodblock artist with those. Great job!
This is very cool! Love the color combination and your composition! Nice work Angela!
Simply gorgeous.
Hey,
thanks for your very first comment on my blog, because nobody visit my new blog :(
Funny to see how you also pushed a character in the corners of your illustration.
What i also see is that you use an acrylic brand that i don't know.
Last month i bought. "Golden Acrylics" It's paint that stays wet longer, just like oilpaint.
http://www.goldenpaints.com/
I'm wondering if it's the same? I only used it on a wallpainting, and i'm not sure if it's really what i want. Because it's sticky...(that's why it stays wet)
I looked at the video of Eric Fortune and he is working with watercolor. But i'm not sure which one? Something like this. http://www.winsornewton.com/main.aspx?PageID=104
O, there are so many paint brands! I just want something where you can paint really detailled with, don't stink and where you can have multiple layers and transparency!
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Thanks for visiting Marjolein!
The acrylics I use are Atelier Interactive:
http://www.chromaonline.com/products/atelier_interactive
They are probably very similar to the Golden Open Acrylics. I don't notice too much stickiness with Atelier, but I use them thinly with very little paint on my brush, almost like dry brush.
Eric uses acrylics, but waters them down, and applies them with very thin, multiple washes. If you followed his method you would have more transparency.
Happy Painting!
Loving this techniqe, the acrylics on wood. I also really like the confined feeling you crated by cropping in, so to speak, on the image, as opposed to cropping some of the image out. It really gives the right feeling for this week's theme... well, it's just cool anyway, anytime, hee hee!
Fun work. Thanks!
You are an amazing artist :)
Are you paid for your work?
Thank you Miss Tanya. - This particular piece did sell in a local gallery. I'm paid as a designer at my day job, and also as a freelancer. I also sell prints of my work.
Wow!
Well, all of the paintings displayed on your blog are very inspirational. I envy your talent! :)
Hi, really loved this painting. What a wonderful friend, and the boy is completely relaxed and now he can sleep well without having the dream of the evil Octopus! :) awesome one!
so very touching and beautiful!
really love the feel of this piece, very fluid. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, lovely. I really like the process shots, it's so fun to see how other people work.
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