thekindman

If I had $4500 burning a hole in my pocket. If you do – go here.

His blog has a series of 4 posters available for purchase, but – all I see is SOLD OUT. Ashely Wood has been a favorite for some time now.

Think this is close to complete. Color of his gloves are a bit off. If you read below – you’ll see I went with plan B. The acetone transfer to watercolor paper didn’t work. I printed an 11 x 17 of the B&W image below from a laser printer. Prolly why the acetone transfer wasn’t clear. I should have used a xerox copy – like all the instructions mention. Anyway, I continued with the transfer on watercolor paper – and used pencil to darken outlines. At this point, I was hoping to finish with watercolor – then pen & ink for outlines. Wasn’t thrilled with my watercolor results – so, I scanned the image twice and patched them together in Photoshop. The image is 11 x 19 – my scanner is 8.5 x 14. I used Corel Painter to paint – and Photoshop for color and level adjustments. Drop me a line with questions or comments.

I’m hoping to finish one painting/illustration per month. This is number two. It’s still in sketch phase – I used the brush tool in Illustrator. I was thinking about doing an acetone transfer to watercolor paper. It’s been awhile since using watercolors – so, results should be interesting, I hope. If things don’t work out with watercolor – plan B will entail scanning and Corel Painter…with Photoshop and Illustrator, if things get really desperate.

Thanks Victor.

Almost a year ago, Nic asked me to participant in an art show at Orchard Skate Shop. This is one of 2.5 paintings based on the Korean card game known as Go Stop. (oils on wood). I gave this to Nic…and he was supposed to give me a print, but not sure what happened.

I’m putting this steam punk keyboard on my Christmas list. Order yours here.

One of my favorite painters – Jonathan Viner. It’s his style, technique, and palette which I find fascinating. Looking for prints? Check out Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC. Hurry – prints are limited.