Primeval street

Sat in a corner in Glendale and painted. Didn't get to finish because many ants started biting me. Really wish I had my french easel D:

Also...Trader Joe's Primeval bar- sooo good.

Culver hall

 

Oil grove

Went painting at the grove in LA- decided to do people instead of landscapes.  Really hard to be inconspicuous though when these bristle brushes measure about 18" in length.

What I really like about this is that it forces you to commit much quicker than if you had about ~3hrs for a landscape. You get maybe 30 minutes of someone eating, and they're gone, some of these left after only 10 minutes. So you have to quickly decide what's saturated, what's not, if your shadows will be cool or warm, what edges will you hit hard and which soft, what will be thin, what will be thick, high-key, low-key, value, hue (this one is hard and not hard at the same time because of the simple burnt sienna/french ultramarine combo) and of course if there's time background/edges.

Also...you can't really be too naturalistic with 30 minutes, so there's also design decisions being made.

FYI: lighting at the grove's farmer market ~5pm is remarkable- wish I had an invisibility cloak to just paint away.

Will probably have to get smaller brushes since I don't have time to paint them big.

Universal paints

Went to universal studios to paint, originally wanted to visit Disney in burbank but got lost and ended up here, oi.

St.Mary's Painting

Last last one, prof had taken it for a while and just got it back.

Fall Remnants

Couple of last bit of things from last fall. This is from a plein air class I took with Robert Hunt. Really awesome painter and he actually started out as an illustrator, so he hasn't been doing landscapes all his life but his paintings are still so great.

Biggest thing I got from his class is the the affirmation of emotion in art. I've talked about this before with the the Murch book and talking about gesture drawing, but from what I got from Hunt and going through this experience is that, it's the same for painting. A painting that took you about...an hour or two can have just as much, if not more life than something that took six hours. It's about being honest in what you see; authenticity.

Took acting this semester with Kate Duffly and when we were doing our improv classes this same concept came up. Doing the first thing that comes to your mind, your first thought, your first stroke; raw  emotion. Dunno...

The last three shots are some things from illu tools: drawing.

(above) Caspar David Friedrich Master Copy

Plein CCA

Quick sketch on the CCA Campus. Should do more, haven't painted in a while and it's starting to bother me.