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Friday, July 20, 2012 at 12:38PM
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 5:42PM It's "That" time again folks! If you would like to have a one -on-one 10 week mentorship with me, and have me help you learn more about anything you want this is the time and here is the info!
Feel free to post any questions you may have about the program, I'll answer whatever I can. :)
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Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 2:28PM This is a 50 minute painting demo I did for the "Girls and Flowers" event last night. The model is Jennifer Fabos Patton of Gallery Girls fame~
This is an oil painting on a new traditions oil primed linen panel. The painting is in about the middle stage that I go through when creating a finished painting. I have already painted the shadows and done the main lay-in in thin oil. I use just turpentine for thinning the paint, or straight oil paint in that first stage.
Here, in the second stage, there is also the beginnings of the more opaque colors in the cheeks, nose and parts of the hair. This second stage is where I make my color choices for the various tones on the skin. After this stage, if I were to continue, I would continue to add the opaque paint, in the highlights especially, and smoothly blend it into the shadows and other opaque paint areas. The final stage creates a continuous, smooth and mor realistic skin tone.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 10:44AM
Here is a short narrated video of me sketching in oil on canvas. The painting is about 9 x 12 inches and was painted in about 2 hours. The oils were thinned wth a medium of 1 part stand oil to 5 parts turpentine, and occasionally thinned with just turpentine.
Enjoy~
Craig
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 4:24PM ;)
Here is the final painting that will be in the Gallery Nucleus "Poster Peepshow" group exhibition. Come by Feb 5th at 7pm and see this and all the other work, and pick up some free cheesecake or do some life drawing with the Sucide Girls!
See you there!