first up, the second 'ode' painting, again done in acrylics.
this one was tougher than the first, more small details that proved to never be quite right, such as emma's right eye which i finally just covered with hair, and her right hand which gave me the biggest headache of anything i've worked on lately, however they turned out alright in the end and i like this mroe than 'ode #1' in spite of those niggling details. the composition is very much aligned with a lot of my older work, stuff i've always liked, and the design of the crazy never-the-same-twice came out really nicely with the addition of an odd little barb towards the end of the nose. . .
i also thoroughly enjoyed painting em in her pj's :P
then next up, some obligatory details, which i'll probably repost at a later date - the weather's bloody awful today and thus photographing ANYTHING is proving pretty difficult.
and - aren't i good to you? - after those, just to be a completist, the original concept ink sketch for the painting, done in about ten minutes. it wasn't intended to be a concept for the second 'ode' painting, i was just doodling and the idea stuck. . .
and that's your lot for now
-iain
This looks just as good as it did before you started having problems, Iain. :)
ReplyDeleteI like this one as much as "Ode #1" but I think you've really nailed me in this one and it's so atmospheric and sort of strange.
You're so talented, and I am so lucky. :)
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Hey, neat! A concept sketch!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work on the painting. That last close-up of the eye looks great. I like the fact that some of the shading is very warm (almost brown) and then very cool in other places.
I see those little tiny cracks on the mask, too. Nice. :-)
thanks, bron. bnow that i have kind of a VERSION of this mask that i really like i'm actually going to MAKE it - if i can decide on what materials it should be made from. the original birdman paintings from 12 or 13 years ago featured a mask that was very much kind of a venetian jesters mask, and somewhere the following year this kind of morphed into the strange animal skull that's more familiar now. . .
ReplyDeleteso we'll see. and yes, a concept sketch - which i like. they're not even things i usually do, but this one led to the painting, so, it's kind of relevant. . . so i posted it.
. . . i'm still not entirely used to this sharing artwork business again though, honestly. it's been rather a while since i posted my stuff with any degree of frequency. . .
Thinking of joining deviantart again? ;-)
ReplyDeletejoining devianart again?! *shakes fist* why i oughta! :P
ReplyDelete. . . it's probably even more awful than it used to be by now. some good things came out of it, though - various misanthropists, eccentrics, waifs, strays and stragglers i'd otherwise never have met ;)
Brilliant. Her hair looks so shiney in this one. You should definitely make that mask, Iain :)
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