Urban Plein Air and Dice Tsutumi Study

These are paintings that I snuck into last week's blog post, but since they are new to the blog, I felt that they also deserved a proper introduction. 

Plein air at Woodbury.

More Dice Tsutsumi Studies 

Greg Pro Week

Week 2 was Greg Pro Week (www.gregpro.com). You've probably seen a lot of studies I've done from him before. This week was supremely difficult.  Some of the paintings were super detailed in terms of content and took a really long time to paint.

Plein Air Paintings WK2: Pools, Parks, Cozy Houses, Plastic Girls & 1950 Sex Icons

These plein airs are from last week. I've been really busy, haven't hide time to post.  I actually don't my work from this week isn't even that good. I missed my sketch quota on some days, but I made sure to get my pleins airs in. 

I actually took a break from painting this week. I've been a lot of freelance work earlier this week, and also doing a lot of plumbing and painting on my house. 

I have this really cool idea to get really good color theory today. It involves paint swatches from Lowes. Stay tuned!

Monday Night- Painting the Pool. Cool colors...

Tuesday - Irvine Regional Park. 

Wednesday Night - Painting my room. Too busy to go out...

Thursday - Painting Mannequins at Irvine Spectrum.  

Friday - AMC Theater at District. Painting Marilyn Monroe. 

Dice Tsutumi (Toy Story 3 Concept Artist) Mastercopies

So as apart of my 500 environment project, I'm doing a mastercopy every weekday. This week's artist was Dice Tsutsumi (www.simplestroke.com).  I first saw his work in the Toy Story 3 artwork - really gorgeous use of color. He renders forms in a very solid fashion. Yet, his color and temperatures are very subtle. Love this guy's stuff. Will do more studies in the future.

I've been doing more color testing on paper recently. It helps me get more accurate and more harmonious color relationships. 

I got some advice from my friend Jason (www.jasonscheier.com) to make each sketchbook page like a portfolio page. Basically - pay more attention to the composition on each page. So, I've been using the color tests as a composition element.  Spending time to plan the composition in the beginning also saves me time when I'm uploading to my blog. I no longer have to crop, scale, move images to make it look more presentable. :)

Plein Air Painting at Spectrum, District & Marketplace,

Okay - this is what you've been waiting for! This is apart of the 500 environments. I've been going out everyday to draw and do plein air paintings. This is really fun, and I really enjoy being outside and listening to nature. Each experience is unique!  To find out why public painting is like a being a hot girl - check out my experience at Irvine Spectrum in a previous blog post! :D

Friday - Irvine Spectrum 

Thursday - Tustin Market Place

Wednesday - District

Tuesday - Lab at Costa Mesa and Woodbury Town Center

Monday - District (Daytime)

Mastercopies, Plein Air Paintings & Color studies

Did some more Greg Pro Studies. This guy is baller.

Plein Air at Woodbury Towncenter

This is where I go to LA Fitness and Trader Joes.

Color Studies. 

Transitioning from Limited to Full Palette.

Scene at Irvine Blvd. A rare undeveloped portion of the street.

Feeling sad and moody that day, channeled feelings through painting.

Danny Gardner studies. This guy is really baller too. Link to Originals.

Sketches - Trip to Pittsburgh, PA

Finally a REAL update with drawings. Some sketches I did during my trip to Pittsburgh 2 weeks ago. I wrote about my trip in a previous blogpost.

Plein Air Rocks - lots of them.

Turtle on a Rock 

Plein Air at Cal Tech

 Jackson Sze Mastercopies - my landscape painting instructor.

Plein Air at Vasquez Rocks

Plein Air at Vasquez Rocks 

Blowing up Rocks - Freelance Piece.

More Plein Air paintings.

This week has been a little better. I think I'm getting the hang of the color painting process. I'm painting smaller, which helps me focus on the bigger shapes. It also speeds up the process so it feels more spontaneous.

Greg Pro Study

Greg Pro Study

Greg Pro Study

Old LA Zoo