Just completed these two paintings for a local art show. The inspiration came from those kitsch prints and postcards popular in the 1960′s and 1970′s. They often feature cutesy girls and boys with huge eyes. In fact this type of painting is now know as Big Eyed Art and original prints sell for a premium on Ebay.
You can check out some of the reference I used here. Both paintings are acrylic on canvas and measure 8″ X 16″.
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These are a few quick sketches made with a Pentel Color brush pen.
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Here’s a more painterly version.
Final artwork. Colour added in Photoshop.
Light boxed the final sketch onto bleed proof paper with blue pencil. Inked with Pentel brush pen. Scanned in at 300ppi, Removed blue lines and cleaned up in Photoshop.
Placed detail paper over my original sketch and redrew it.
My first rough sketch using blue Col-Erase pencil then refined with marker. A4 size. (Above)
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Practicing with brush and ink on Bristol paper.
Medium: Col Erase pencil, Raphael sable brush no.2, Pentel Pocket brush, FW Ink, Bristol paper.
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Character designs for Frankenstein’s monster.
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These are from my sketchbook. Medium: Pencil, sable brush and FW ink.
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Now in it’s 2nd year California Screamin’ Down Under II at the Kustom Lane Gallery is a wonderful opportunity for Aussie artists to show off their stuff. The top three artworks are shipped off to rub shoulders with the best at the Screamin’ 6 Exhibition at Gasoline Gallery in California.
For my entry I wanted to try something different and inject a bit of story. Not sure where the inspiration came from but I have always loved the moody images from Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” video. So I went for Daddy’s poor little rich girl taking a pit stop at her favorite gas station on the edge of town.
Below you can see how it progressed from thumbnails to colour sketch to canvas to gallery wall. If you are in the area don’t forget to check out the exhibition at Kustom Lane. Its runs until 17th April 2011.
Here’s the finished painting.
“The Pick Up” Acrylic on canvas. W400mm X H300mm. March 2011.
Drawing transferred on canvas with a rough wash of Burnt Umber (Above).
My first digital colour sketch (Above).
My first thumbnails and rough sketches. All these were drawn with pencil and fine liner then I played around with the composition in Photoshop.
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I am planning on doing another Tiki Girl painting soon and these are a few quick sketches. You can check out the painting I did last year here.
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An assortment of oddball characters from my sketchbook drawn with pencil, brush and ink.
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