Thursday, March 31, 2011

IFriday - Toy




These are a couple of pictures I painted last summerwhile attending the Low residency Illustration MFA program at The University of Hartford. They were painted digitally in Corel Painter. The goal is to paint on the computer using a traditional approach. The subjects are vintage Madame Alexander dolls. I was trying to give them each a little attitude without having them looking like Chuckie from those 80's slasher movies.
Painting a doll's portrait is fun- you don't have to worry about them getting bored or tired. They can be posed and reposed again and again and they don't complain if the picture doesn't make them look as attractive as they think they are.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

iFriday - Cultivate...


It is Thursday already. I almost missed this one :-)
I like this week's theme- there are so many options for cultivate.
I chose to revisit reference from a project I completed last year. Plain people know an awful lot about cultivating plants.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

IF Stir


Here is one for this week :-)