Valentine's Day Stuff

With Valentine's Day approaching, I thought it appropriate that I put up a Valentines posting.  The first was the idea I had to make a heart into two lovers heads This one has the man on the right and the woman on the left.  I added the extra splashes of paint and water to give the picture a little bit of life.  I'd do it just a bit differently if I had to do it again, but I think that it tuned out quite nice regardless.

My second picture is two chili's that come together to form a heart.  One pepper is just in front of the other.  I guess if you have a spicy hot lover, you could give this to him or her.


As with other paintings, I do have videos of these two, you can find them below.

Valentines Day Card

For those of you who still make valentines day cards.  I thought that instead of just a heart, it might be nice to do something a little different.  The difference is, of course that each lobe of the heart is a persons head.  On the left a woman, an don the right a man.  They must be in a passionate embrace.

I did a little splatter over the top of the heart to give a little more movement and life to the painting.  It's just a valentines day card, but I think its a whole lot better than any card you could buy in the store.

Below you can find a video of how I did it.

Red Head

Still not quite done with this but I suppose it is near enough.  All I have to do is throw on some king of mottled background and voila.

Faces seem to be really hard, and I don't know why.  Scratch that, I do know why.  We all know what faces should look like.  We all know where eyes go, and noses and mouths, ears, etc.  And we also know exactly how they should be positioned on the head.  We see faces every day, and so, if one object that makes up a face isn't quite right, it makes the whole face entirely wrong.  

Well, I got this afce probably as close as any other face I've painted.  I think I got a bit stripey with the dark in the hair, but I needed to do something to it.  With just strands of red, there wasn't enough depth to it.  the stripes really help bring it out.  Well, it is practice.