Motorcycle

Not exactly sure I am finished with this yet, but I'm pretty far along.  There are some parts of this that I really love, and some that I'm not quite so fond of.

I really had trouble with the front wheel on this.  The fender isn't quite right, and wheel isn't quite right.  But after that, I think the whole painting is gravy.  I love the back 2/3s of this bike.

I got the shading mostly right, I think, and I got the amount of detail in the engine about right.

I had originally planned on painting all of the engine.  Incredibly detailed, like I've tried to do before.  But this time, I painted just a few strokes on it, then stepped back, and WOW, it seemed right.  I did put in a few more squiggles and lines, but noting approaching any real kind of detail in the engine.  Your eyes just kind of fill every thing it.

Like I said to start, I don't know how much more I'm gonna do on this, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.

Motorcycle WIP

You knew it was gonna happen.  it was only gonna be a matter of time until I got back to painting cars and trucks and the like.

I put on a really loose layer to get some base color, and have been slowly adding to this painting.  I think I started a week ago, and while waiting for other paintings to dry, or while in between other projects, I put just a touch of paint here and there.    I don't know how much time I've got into this, And I don't know how much I have to go.  I'm gonna keep on pecking away at it and we'll see how it goes.  For now, it's still a work in progress.  enjoy.

Taking Flight

We have had a bit of turnover at work.  We got a new ASC and she is into airplanes.  I thought it would be a good exercise to paint one.  This is a quick sketch of a plane that she likes.  Its called the Boomerang, and apparently is a prototype made by Burt Rutan.  I know its just all blue around the plane.  It's kind of like giving up on the background.  And I know that given the angle, you should be seeing ground under the plane instead of all sky.

Well, it's just a quick painting I did.  I didn't plan on spending a whole lot of time paint this, and therefore just wanted to block in some background.

Let me say one other thing.  I got some new software for my scanner.  Since I started using it, the pictures I have put up here have been terrible.  I don't know if it is all the scanners fault, or if it is something else, but when I post to blogger the color of the pictures goes all wonky.  If I look at them locally on my machine, they look great.  I'm going to get to the bottom of it, so please be patient while I work it out.  Thank you.