Work in progress The Fiji Mermaid

December 18, 2009

Another project that used to live on the “Shelf of Failure and Shame”. Although it never stays put, it seems to end up in my room, on the couch, on the kitchen table, in a box. I have always been interested in sideshow gaffs and the Fiji Mermaid is one of my favorites. I started [...]

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In progress photos and why they help

December 8, 2009

My previous post about Mr. Woe started me thinking about why I do this. I take tons of in progress photographs of my pieces as I make them, primarily for my own reference. I have somewhere around 8000 photo’s of my art pieces some of them are final pics most of them are in progress [...]

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Online Art Critique: Taking Criticism

December 6, 2009

In the first part of this series (Online Art Critique: Giving Criticism), we looked at how to provide respectful, honest criticism when someone offers up a work of art for review. We also discussed ways to give constructive criticism and avoid unhelpful comments that could be misinterpreted by the artist. Now, we want to dive [...]

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When painting sometimes its best to step back

December 5, 2009

I dont know if other artists suffer from this but I do. When painting a sculpt, I paint in multiple layers. I paint the primer coat on the piece, a base skin tone, various noodled skin tones, veining, so on and so forth. Building up layer upon layer to get a (hopefully) realistic skin tone. [...]

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