ELISE

ALLA PRIMA SKETCH

A quick 1 hour sketch in Hype Park

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I did this a while ago and never posted it, its unfinished but I kinda like it like that :)

STUDY OF JUSTINE

Both of these sketches were done in a 3 hour session at Cartel studio

ILLOS

40 MIN OIL STUDIES

These are the latest life studies from the monday sessions at Cartel Studio.

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FANTASY

OIL TEMPERATURE STUDY

A quick two hour still life

OIL

Justine

A portrait painted of Justine at Cartel Studio

SHARPENER RING

I designed this ring and got it made in bali by one of my great friends Arie who is a silver smith. The ring itself is pure silver 925, and the blade is a standard replaceable run of the mill blade.

If you have any ideas that you would like to create in silver you can email him on ariedewantara@telkom.net

FLOWER WEEK!

I spent the weekend with my fantastic best friend/photographer Isabella Melody Moore making these gorgeous flower headpieces for her cover of The Brag music magazine.

Top left is me in the process of making them, and the bottom is the final shot of the girls from the band 'Kyu'.

And here is a quick study of some of the flowers that didnt get used to make the head pieces

SELF PORTRAIT

SARGENT STUDY

FARMER

This is a painting of a lovely old farmer who tended the rice fields around our house. He didn't speak a word of english, but we managed just fine communicating. He has the most amazing beard which looks like a stick on santa beard.

SNOW AND FUR STUDY

I painted this after watching the Greg Manchess dvd 'Above the timber line'. It was a great way to study fur and snow

QUICK COLOUR STUDIES FROM LIFE

STUDIES

This is a study of Evan Shippards work. It was great for studying edges,

colour and value

This character and creature I designed a few months back,

I though I would put them together in scene.

I was looking at Justin Sweets work, and how he works

with atmosphere, concentrating on edge work

PORTRAITS FROM LIFE

BALI SHACK AND TEMPLE GATES

This is a little farmers shack next to our place, its in oil, and took about an hour

Speed Painting from imagination, but using the traditional bali gates

FIRST DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

Here is my first shot at painting environments, very enjoyable, but i'm still struggling with painting colour digitally

DIGITAL

Here is my first finished character design, and creature design. I'm currently working on an action shot for them

OIL!

I have broken some new ground in the past few weeks painting portraits.. all of these are from life, with about 3 hours of painting time.

Self Portrait

These two are from the Arma three hour pose session

My good friend Arie

and a 2 hour session at Pronotos

OIL AND DIGITAL

Oil paintings of adam, the portrait is alla prima done over two sittings,

while the reclining is painted from a photograph

Digital studies from life and imagination

monochrome studies from life

A BUSY WEEK

Here is a bunch of sketches from life, my first finished digital painting ever, and another monochrome oil study.

I have been working hard on portraits, really struggling to get a likeness, but slowly getting there.