Oil Painting Lesson 2: Mixing colours.

This week's painting class at Frank Joubert was rather challenging. It mainly involved mixing primary colours to form a neutral grey. 

It takes a lot of backwards and forwardsing of adding a bit of this colour, a bit of that colour, and so on and so forth. I managed to get a grey, but it kept either tending towards a yellow/grey or a blue/grey. 

The image I found to paint as my first picture was this one. It's going to be a bit of a challenge but it could look really cool when finished. As  you can see from the second image, I didn't get very far with my underpainting as I spent most of the time struggling with getting a grey.

Oil Painting Classes: Lesson 1

Last week Thursday I began an oil painting class at Frank Joubert art centre in Cape Town. Its an 8 week course taught by Anne Foale. For the first lesson all that was required of me was to spend the entire 2 hours drawing a green pepper, which you can see below.

 

Below are some of the things I needed to purchase for the course. Some paint brushes, three primary colours and white, and some turpentine. The oil paints are a Winton Phthalo Blue 30, Winton Permanent Rose 49, Lukas Lemon Yellow 210, and Lukas Titanium White 208.

        

Some dubious sketchbook art

For the past couple of months or so I have really wanted to improve my female figure drawing. I decided that instead of taking the typical life drawing approach to representing the female form, I would rather fuse some landscape art into the drawings.

The last drawing here was done whilst I was at Club Mykonos near Langebaan.

A teaser video of the comic "Lyon: The Dragon Heart"

A teaser of the first copy of "Lyon-The Dragon Heart". It is the first chapter of a comic I have been illustrating for the past 8 months, written by Massalo Araujo. Enjoy!

Lyon-The Dragon Heart from massalo on Vimeo.

The Opening of The Pieces and Puzzles Exhibition

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening in support of the artists on the show!

If you missed the opening, the show is running until the 26th of September at The Lovell Gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town.

    

Open Book Comic Fest

An UNOFFICIAL poster I did for the Open Book Festival's Comic Fest. If you can make it on the 7th and 8th of September I will be there with a bunch of goodies on display. 

To view all that is going down over the course of the festival, go to this link: http://openbookfestival.co.za/

Pieces and Puzzles Exhibition work in progress

Some work in progress shots of an image I'm working on for an upcoming exhibition in Cape Town called Pieces and Puzzles.