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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08066146826692871430noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739558430823390120.post-47995339766434089892016-05-12T11:36:00.000-04:002016-05-12T11:36:31.635-04:00Mermaid: Blue Eyes #MerMay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To celebrate MerMay I'm putting up my step by step of my oil painting "Mermaid: Blue Eyes."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'd done several small thumbnails of my idea of doing a portrait of a mermaid, using just her face, hands and hair in a square canvas, before doing the pencil directly onto the canvas board.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I first went over the pencil with a green line in oils</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did the face and skin tones, with greenish shadows</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the greens in the kelp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giving more detail to the kelp fronds and her hair</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Finishing the shell and sea life decorating her hair and a pet fish</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Framed and sold! at IlluXcon 2014</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started this painting last year for IlluXcon 7 but wasn't able to finish it in time. I started with a graphite drawing on watercolor paper and then sealed it with shellac. I decided I would try to be fresh and experimental by doing the background first and loosely putting in leaves and greenery. I added in flowers, birds and butterflies freely, without getting too tied down to realism or design. It was interesting, a departure from my very planned out cover illustration work.</span></div>
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I decided to do another mermaid before I realized how popular mermaids had become with other fantasy artists. They're everywhere now, and a frequent subject at IlluXcon. I wondered what color of skin a mermaid would have before I started on the finish. Would she have a color that camouflaged her from predators in the sea? Or would Mer-people be the top fish in the ocean? Maybe her skin is green simply because of the filtered light from above. The original is 7.5" by 5.25", oils and graphite on shellacked acid free bristol board, mounted with archival boards and materials, and matted to size 11" x 14."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This small painting for IlluXcon was made from the fuzziest photo I may have ever used for reference. I was at a convention in Iowa many, many years ago when I took several pictures of a very lovely young girl whose mother was shepherding me, as artist guest, about the con. I saved those pictures for years and years and only in the last decade did I bring them out and make some drawings and paintings from them. She had a clear, victorian kind of beauty and so inspired this tiny homage to Dante Gabriel Rosetti's "The Blessed Damozel."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Needless to say she has more stars in her hair than seven, because that amount just didn't look right. The whole effect makes me think of the spirit of sleep and nighttime. Below are the other small paintings I did from this same model. All 3 little paintings are sold now.</span></div>
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This started as a small drawing I did while waiting for my child to finish a sports practice. It was just from a picture on my iPhone of our siberian cat Rumble Roar, nothing very deliberate or with much planning. After 30+ years doing very meticulous art for book covers, its rather a relief to do little works that will be finished in days instead of weeks. I expanded it to put him in a cavalier costume, for he is a very even tempered gentlemanly cat, and I have a nice large book of Van Dyck paintings for reference. I then put a layer of shellac over the graphite to seal the paper and painted the finish in oils. It's mounted and matted with acid-free papers.<br />
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I'm hoping to do more animals in costume. That was a lot of fun, especially learning how to make that silk effect on his doublet. <br />
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This year I will be selling mini paintings, prints and cards of botanicals and modern artifacts with the Etsy New York Team. We are returning to Chelsea Market in Manhattan and I will only be there on Saturday, December 5th, from 10AM to 8PM. Here are some of the wares I will be offering. More on Wednesday! I will also be at the Gowanus Holiday Market at Brooklyn Colony on December 19 & 20th for any last minute shoppers.</div>
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This is the original sketch I did for Mercedes Lackey's new Elemental Masters novel. "From a High Tower" takes place in Germany and the heroine is working for a Wild West Show. This of course excited me because I haven't done anyone in western costume since art college. </div>
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But with input from the author and publisher, it was decided it would look too much like a western instead of a fantasy story, and the heroine's outfit turned into a feminine version of a Bavarian huntsman's jacket and hat. Also the magical symbols and wind in the background didn't tie in with the title well, so the tower was added. So a few changes from the original idea, but all for the better, and here is the finished art.</div>
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While I used to do a finished drawing before I start the painting, I was under a tight deadline and just enlarged the sketch onto the gessoed illustration board. I started with the stag known as the Winter King, then moved onto Jewel, the rider, and the background of arches in the center triangle. These aren't color corrected so they're pretty yellow.<br />
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The snowy trees and stars in the sky.</div>
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And with the black triangle outline and some gold inlaid designs on the Winter King's antlers, it's done.<br />
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Here are some new lampwork glass beads I've been working on, all available at the craft fair in Beacon this Saturday and at the Holiday Handmade Cavalcade in New York City on Sunday.</div>
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It's time for the only two craft fairs I'm doing this season! Come see my lampwork glass based crafts (no arts or prints) at either of these two fairs - Saturday in Beacon, NY, and only on Sunday in Chelsea, NYC. The links are at the bottom of the page.<br />
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This is your chance to see in person some of the new things I've made. Here are my miniature glass seascapes! I make each sea anemone, shell or sea star on the mandrel and then assemble them together with epoxy and fine sand. I haven't seen anyone else making these yet on the internet, so come get something really original and one of a kind! The cherry or walnut wood blocks they are on is only 1.5" square, to give you an idea how tiny they are.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year a little fennec fox named Luna joined our family. In honor of this newest member of our household, this year's gift tags show our little girl being naughty and being nice. Like most little ones, she is a bit of both.</span></div>
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Imaginative Realism is the new name for fantasy art. That covers all the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror and gaming art that took realistic painting or sculpture in the direction of things only seen in the imagination. In September I was lucky to attend Illuxcon7, the premier convention for Imaginative Realism, created by Patrick and Jeannie Wilshire. The Allentown Museum of Art is inundated every September with artists, collectors, and students of the fantastic from all over the world. Only non-digital work is allowed, so the galleries are filled with the most amazing work in traditional methods - oils, acrylics, watercolors, graphite, and the three dimensional work is beyond description, especially because I haven't the faintest idea what they are using to create their strange and lifelike beings. There are also wonderful classes and discussions going on in the nearby Baum Education Center, and a stream of students getting their portfolios reviewed by professionals.</div>
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Illuxcon is thoroughly inspiring for me. I love seeing work this good, and find it gets the creative juices flowing in ways that just working alone does not. It's a pleasure to meet the artists, the collectors, and the fans in an intimate and low key setting. We all wander around talking and chatting and having a great time. We also sell some art, which is always good too.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up of a painting by Jeff Jones, one of my favorite artists. Very Whistler like treatment. There was a special exhibition of Jones' work owned by Robert K. Weiner at Illuxcon.</td></tr>
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Some times you head off the beaten path and you discover little unknown treasures. In the summer I was looking for inexpensive flooring for a room I was finishing, and found I could get some at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in New Jersey. On the drive to Morris, New Jersey, I passed a sign that said "STICKLEY MUSEUM." My head turned, as any one who loves the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States knows the wonderful furniture made by Gustav Stickley. Of course I had to find out what this museum could be. It turns out that there was a beautiful property in New Jersey that Stickley bought, and then built as a school for boys to learn a trade. The school never took off, but he lived there with his family for a short time as his country estate when he was at his most successful, furnishing every room with pieces designed especially for himself and to his specifications. I took a tour of the lovely grounds and the building with an agreeable and knowledgeable old docent. Below is the main building, called the Log House, which is filled with many of his original pieces, wall hangings and decor. Every room has been loving restored, right down to an old Cornell pennant on the wall of his daughters' room, as it was seen in photographs. Inside, the fireplaces are of brass with typical arts and crafts style mottos beaten into the metal. Everywhere are small soft golden electrical lamps hanging from posts or the ceilings, lighting the dark rooms. It's like stepping into an illustration for a proper home from the Arts & Crafts Magazines of the time. I was so pleased to come upon this hidden gem!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This is the finished art for "The Fields of Wrath" the sequel to Mickey Zucker Reichert's "Flight of the Renshai." I used oils on Crescent illustration board, and the interlace circles (also my own design) were added digitally. Though I love the contrast of gold or silver metallic elements in my art, it is really difficult to photograph and then control the color of said metallic. Digital takes care of both of those problems. Retracing the steps, I started out with the figure drawings below.</span></div>
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This is the color comp for the latest Mercedes Lackey Valdemar novel. For this book I was given a synopsis by the author; she is in the process of writing the book. Our hero, Mags, the former mine slave, has finally graduated from his trainee grays to his Herald whites. He is the first Herald-Spy, so we've returned to the city of Haven, and obviously he won't have his Companion Dallen, his blue eyed spirit/horse, close by when he's spying on people. For that reason I decided it would be a change of pace to not have them in the same physical space. Mags is a mind speaker, so he is constantly in touch with Dallen.</div>
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First of all I started with just little idea scribbles in my sketch book. Then I moved onto drawings for the color comp.</div>
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Here is my pencil sketch for Mags. I wanted masks to symbolize the different personas he takes on as a spy. These are drawn in graphite, but I scan them and make them darker.</div>
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His Companion Dallen.</div>
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And the city of Haven. Below are three of the black and white digital comps I made to show the publishers my ideas of how the cover would look.</div>
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They chose the last one, and then I did a tightly finished color comprehensive because their publishing deadlines for the sales catalog were moved up. They needed art faster than I could complete the final finish. I also decided to split the art in two, so the designer could be more flexible on the positioning of the Companion on the front, and then use the full horse on the back cover. These were done in oils after printing the drawing onto paper and at the printed size. The first image in this post was the final comp - minus the lettering - that was used for the sales catalog.</div>
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I usually do a final drawing to size, but because the color comp was so finished, I just enlarged them right onto the gessoed illustration boards for the final art. Below are some of photographic reference I shot of my son and some small models I used to figure out the lighting of Mag's faces.</div>
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The final art was approximately twice the size it would be printed, done in oils on gessoed illustration board. The publisher didn't want Mag's faces to look like masks, so I added in hair on the final art. One of the characters Mags portrays is supposed to be a deaf mute, another a street tough, and that is reflected in the faces he holds.</div>
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My drawing board with the finished art and color comps. I know I should have taken pictures in the process of painting, but I forgot. Honestly, I'm a bit insecure that my art is ever going to turn out well, so I probably did that on purpose. </div>
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Dallen in "Closer to Home." It was really fun to work on a horse this big. I could make big brush strokes for once. The designer will fade out the darks for the front cover so the type will pop, while on the back he'll probably let the art print like the original. The book comes out from DAW Books in October.</div>
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Final finished art in acrylics on gessoed illustration board. Some colored pencil just for back ground texture, and graphite pencil for strengthening borders. Jenna has created a wonderful fantasy world with several races, a breathtaking sense of urgency, frightening magic, and strong characters full of hopes, desires, humor and love. A joy to read, and I'm only getting the unedited manuscripts!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Solstice from a Studio by the Sea! These winter mice and birdies are all ready to celebrate the season in these gift tags I made. All you need is a printer, card stock paper, and something to cut out the tags with. </span></div>
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I belong to two Etsy teams, Etsy NY and Hudson Valley Etsy Team, and they are each having a craft fair on the first weekend of June. I will be hoping for no wind or rain and showing my jewelry and my NEW one of a kind stuffed monsters. No artwork, just crafts from me at these two shows. The forecast is for a sunny weekend so come on out!</div>
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I turned this in yesterday. A cover for Mercedes Lackey's new novel in the Collegium Chronicles for the good folks at DAW Books. In the upper right you can see my color comp and below that my now 17 year old son posing for me as Mags, the Herald trainee at the center of this series. Oils on illustration board for the painting and a digital background of silver horses and arrows done in Photoshop. I'm not sure when this is coming out, as Misty is in the midst of writing it!<br />
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This is the final part of the tutorial. Previously I had completed the matting of the art, and now I assemble the frame and put the artwork in it. I buy my frames from American Frame, Graphic Dimensions, and sometimes from the art suppliers like Dick Blick, Pearl Paint, or AI Friedman. I like American Frame because most of the time I'm framing artwork for conventions and I expect the art will do some traveling before it sells, so I prefer metal frames for toughness. I use plexiglass, which American Frame will cut for you as well, instead of glass because it is much lighter, and may crack but not shatter as glass will. I like color in my mats but a clean, austere look in my frames. </div>
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I dust off the top of the matted artwork so there is no lint. The plexiglass comes with sticky paper on both sides. I peel off one side and place it quickly on the matted art so there is minimal chance of getting dust on that side. Then I peel off the other side, revealing the artwork. I scan for lint and specks. If I find anything, I carefully lift the plexiglass and use a bit of masking tape on a finger to trap the lint and remove it.<br />
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Now I'm ready to slip the matted artwork and plexiglass in together into the 3 sided frame.<br />
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