The new painting: “Consequences”

Though I’ll try and get better pictures of it once it’s dry, I decided to go ahead and add my newest acrylic painting to the site. I call it, Consequences:

I’m really having fun with acrylics (and inks for that matter), but they are far different from my digital pieces. I sort of just let them come out, and let them be who they are, and really try to experiment as much as I can. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Hell, maybe this one doesn’t work either. But it’s still fun.

I find with digital work that I want to keep adding details, adding fine layers to the art until it’s done. But with acrylics, so far I’ve preferred to work the paint in a number of different ways, to try to evolve a different look and feel for it on the fly.

I also thought that, while I was taking a couple of quick pics of the art, I’d throw in a shot of my desk. It’s either a good way to show how I work as an artist, or a good way to warn others how not to work:

Other than the painting itself, here are a few highlights. The iPad there is actually controlling the computer in the room, so I can flip through music tracks and not have to get up. The foam on the palettes, in front of the iPad, is a homemade version of a sea sponge, which I thought I’d try for the rough, random paint effects in the work. Finding an old piece of foam in my office also saved me $10 to buy one, not to mention the inevitable coffee I just have to have since I’m there.

Under the corner of the iPad is a copy of Wally Wood’s “22 Panels That Always Work”, and if you are an artist (especially in comics) you should go look that up right now. You can also see the skull I built as a reference (go check how I did that here)

As always, I welcome your opinions on the art. Anyone?