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About Me Member Traditional Artist trip-up21/Female/New Zealand Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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paint lotsa paint!

Tue Apr 14, 2009, 3:14 AM
havnt uploaded any work for a while, been painting lots though! am doing a series of oil paintings for my year long honours project, i am excited and feaked out at the same time! painting takes so long, i've been working on 5 for 6 weeks already and not one is finished.

and paint is so expensive...

  • Mood: Not Impressed
  • Listening to: Blacklisted
  • Reading: the monkey wrench gang
  • Watching: miami ink
  • Playing: sims 2
  • Eating: nothing
  • Drinking: chai tea

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Hamilton new zealand
  • Interests: vegan, edge, tattoos, hardcore punk, music in general
  • Favourite movie: trainspotting, taxi driver, snatch
  • Favourite band or musician: strangers, cursed, against me, this bike is a pipe bomb
  • Favourite genre of music: punk, hardcore, ska, psychobilly
  • Favourite artist: steven sharer, zak smith, shawn barber, bill henson, larry clarke...
  • Favourite poet or writer: george orwell, albert camus and a lot of others...
  • Favourite photographer: Larry Burrows, glen e friedman, bill henson, larry clarke sigmar polke
  • Favourite style of art: low brow, graffittii, stencils, tattoo, photo realisim, portraiture
  • Operating System: windows xp but i'd prefer a mac...
  • MP3 player of choice: I Pod nano at the momment
  • Favourite cartoon character: wallace and Grommit
  • Tools of the Trade: pen, pencil, sometimes ink or paint and something flat enough to draw on

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:iconunknowncontrast:
hey :)
love your style and i was wondering if you could tell me how you go about your style ?
i have just recently started painting more and would love to be able to do some work at the standard you are ?

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:icontrip-up:
Heya, the most important thing ive found is to make sure you have good paint and brushes, they dont have to be top of the range but your going to struggle heaps if your materials dont do what they are supposed to.

Its important to find a scale that works well for you, i found that if i worked too big it was hard to make stuff look right and if i worked too small i couldnt put in the details i wanted to.

aside from that its just a matter of experimenting and working in thin layers. start off rough and refine with each layer, dont try and make it perfect from the first layer

I start off with the midtones of say the skin, then add the layers of browns/ reds/ blues to make the shadows building them up gradually to the right darkness then i add the highlights. its the highlights that makes the image stand out.

also its really important to have a good reference photo, make sure it has a good range of tones, its hard to paint something if the image is too light or dark.

I hope that helps some!
and cheers for the compliment =)
:iconunknowncontrast:
:d thanks, i will try apply your tips :D

cheers :D

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:iconnannerland:
Wicked gallery.. Love it
:icondancingflame24:
intense gallery. bruno told me about you, wow! i love your ballpoint pen sketches, friggin' epic.

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:iconstpeteartisan:
Thank you so much have a great up coming weekend! J.Michael

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Thank You very much for the recent :+fav:`s !

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:iconizak-punk:
thanks for the fav =)
:iconsaxmancometh:
Hiya thanks for the fave.

Cheers
Saxman

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