Artist of the Day: Brett Amory!

Inspired by detached commuters and inhabitants of the neighborhood he resided in for 15 years (Tenderloin), Brett Amory began the Waiting series in 2001.Whether it is a dark scene or faded portrait, Amory delivers the message that most have temporary moments of transient where wee are too occupied to live in the now. These paintings and more artworks by Brett Amory can be found on his website brettamory.com

 Waiter #18

Waiting #67 

Waiting #69 

Waiting #92

Creation of The Lady in Red logo

1. First was the brainstorming and rough sketching. Figured a cartoonish logo would be best because its more cute and easy going.

2. After erasing all the marks I mixed white and black to make the hair and brown, yellow, and red for the skin tone. First I painted the light gray base for the hair and went back to create the lines with a small brush.

3 To get ready for the teeth I went in with white paint to get rid of any other marks.

4. Darkening the skin tone with a little brown and watering it down after I painted the eyelids and nose. When everything dried I used a smaller paintbrush to line the bottom of the eyes with pure black and delicately painting the eyelashes.

5. To prepare for the teeth I used a mix of black, white, and a little water to line the teeth

6. Going back lightly with black I painted within the gray lines to finish the teeth. When dried I went back with red to layer on the lips and black to paint the eyebrows. 

7. For the top I went in with watered down red as the base and layered on the color. As the finishing touch I darkened the neck.

 And voilà

Artist of the Day: Manuel Rebollo

These works of art along with others can be found on his website http://manuelrebollo.blogspot.com/

"Gold"/"Oro"

"No te desnudes todavía"/"Do Not Get Naked Yet"

"When The Sky is Over"

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Enchantment - A Spring Lookbook

Artist of the Day: Agnes Cecile

Silvia Pelissero is a some instructed and some self taught Italian artist that goes by the name of Agnes Cecile. These paintings along with other can be found on her website http://agnes-cecile.cleanfolio.com/

Garden in the ceiling

 

nell'acqua

 Gross Fuge-Rage

Artist of the Day: Gregory Euclide

 Otherworldly

Everything Falling Through and a Window View

Diverted From The Valley And Restored For Your Holiday

I Built Bridges Over Something Selling Desire's Terrain

Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher from the Minnesota River Valley. In some of his pieces he features some pieces of trash making for an effective message about the Earth.

All of these pieces are by Gregory Euclide and can be viewed along with others at http://gregoryeuclide.com/

Fish painting

just a fish I doodled a few days ago (: and have done some more doodles since (:It was inspired by the songs Pretty Face by Soley and Take Me Somewhere Nice by Mogwai

The steps were actually pretty easy to do (:
1.In order to keep the lines crisp I outlined the my beginning sketch with a thin black sharpie

2.Then to paint the scales without spending too much time I chose a light shade of blue and lightened it more with water. Keeping the brush thin, I lightly tapped the brush down the tail

3.When preparing to change colors, I kept watering down the color as I painted

4. Once the paint dried I went back with the new color and repeated step 3

5.For the fins I watered down the paint and let the colors mix. Then I went back and made strokes with either the pink or blue

6.for the eyes and lips I painted layer by layer to create a little bit of shading (: