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I've been reading Pop Painting by Camilla d'Errico, and it's great. I highly recommend it as a book about Pop Surrealism, and as a book for any painter. D'Errico shares a great amount of information about her technique, which combines Manga art with Renaissance blending styles. She's kinda famous for Manga-looking girls with cute animals and dripping rainbows: tentacle fans will love her.
My most recent blog post is a step-by-step on a nude study. I'm not sure if I posted the blog I did just before that, which is about composition in painting and photography. That one hasn't gotten much feedback, so I'm interested to see what readers think... you can find both at killthehero.wordpress.com
My most recent blog post is a step-by-step on a nude study. I'm not sure if I posted the blog I did just before that, which is about composition in painting and photography. That one hasn't gotten much feedback, so I'm interested to see what readers think... you can find both at killthehero.wordpress.com
Pastel Dancers
I just submitted a couple of recent pastel paintings of ballet dancers. I did a new blog post on my process. Please go take a look:
https://killthehero.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/pastel-dancers/
Centaurs
A few weeks ago I posted that I was painting unicorns and other mythical beasts. My latest paintings have been centaurs. I've been visualizing centaurs outside of the modern perception of the centaur from Greek myth as a horse/human, and looking at centaurs as they might be from various parts of the world. My last painting was of a Sapmi/Scandinavian centaur with a reindeer body, and my newest submission is an East African centaur who is half Springbok.
You can see my process, and some thoughts about the mythology of the centaur, here: https://killthehero.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/centaur-shepherdess-step-by-step/
Unicorns
I've decided to paint some mythical beasts. No, not because of the movie... I thought unicorns were a good place to begin. Actually the story of how I arrived at that is on my newest blog post: https://killthehero.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/unicorn-step-by-step/
I'm also experimenting with a new signature for my paintings. I used to do a stylized 'K'. I was never fully satisfied with that. At the suggestion of my GF, I started using a five-stroke shape of a wren. You can see that in the bottom left of my unicorn painting. Tell me if you like it. It's still a bit of a work-in-progress...
I had an odd experience...
A couple of weeks ago, an odd thing happened here on DA. OK, maybe not odd. Odd for me. I always considered DA a very safe space on a very dangerous Internet. I like it here. I like people's art, I like the contacts I've made here, and I like the groups.
I got a post on my profile a few weeks ago from a user whom I did not know, and had never interacted with, that read "Jesus loves you."
Now anyone who looks carefully at my artwork and my posts can probably see that I am of an "alternative" religion. I don't shout it from the rooftops, but I'm certainly not hiding it. Getting an unsolicited post that "Jesus loves" me is a bit disturbing. Es
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