Little House on the Prairie

30 Min, 1 Hour, What's the diff?

Well, there is quite a difference when painting architecture as compared to a natural landscape. This was one that got away from me, but I revisited it to finish it up and ease my mind.

Another Study and What Not To Do

The bottom image is the original, but I really disliked the wall along the bottom. This is an example of the problem of blindly copying photography, you also copy anything bad in them like this composition!

Read more about these here.

Another Study

Another one of these, which are all done in Photoshop using photo reference as a color and speed exercise. This one probably went to 45min-1hr or so....still working on the speed and simplification to hit the 30 min mark.

30-Min Color Study

From a little initiative at work, inspired by the inimitable Robh Ruppel. It's a new thing, and I want to make it a habit. I've learned a lot already! These are all from photo reference. In the future I want to start collecting dramatic cinematography shots to paint from as well.

Some of these ended up taking a bit more than 30 min...

Also, hop on over to my talented friend Tom Schmuck's blog to see some of his studies from the same initiative!

Stay tuned for more...

Sketch

Saw this image and was bitten by the drawing bug. It's been too long!

HOLGA!

So, on our recent trip to NYC I bought a HOLGA from B&H Photo Video after being introduced to it by my cousin's husband, Spencer. I was intrigued by the quirkiness of the camera and the images it could produce, so I set about tinkering with the thing. Here are my first two rolls in all their unabashed glory. I do want to point out that I had the frame spacing wrong on the first roll, and the photo place cropped them horribly. They also neglected to scan at least 2 images of the black and white roll, which really REALLY annoys me.

Anyhow, I plan on honing my meager photography skills on this interesting camera.

If you have any tips for me, please share!