Painting – Direenworks

Train Trip

Took a train trip from CO to CA :)

Doodled this on my tablet.

June 7, 2016

Pirate Ship in the Yard

This was my 8th birthday as I remember it…

December 25, 2015

2015 ReelFX, Canvas for a Cause.

Just got back from this years Canvas for a Cause event at ReelFX. Lots of great entries this year. Lots of variety!

Here’s what I submitted:

rfxCanvasForTheCause_2015 — Caffiene addicted Tarsier. Acrylic on a 10×10 canvas.

June 25, 2015

Sailing at Sunset

Here’s a painting I did quite a while back. Hadn’t posted it because I hoped to get back to it and re-work it a bit. There’s a lot I could improve, but I like it enough to say good enough :)

April 22, 2015

I’ve been doing these How I See Things posts to breakdown the elements of composition I find when exploring with photography. I find it fascinating how these elements lead your eye around an image, and I intentionally try to use them to my advantage when painting a picture. It’s like mind control!

I put a fair bit of thought into this painting I did for my brother a while back:

I want your eye to start at the face, so I made sure to make it the greatest point of contrast. Both in terms of value and saturation. Starting there, you’ll visually go for the ride down the path. Which I originally had receding to the horizon, but realized I could pull it right back into the face. Soon as I did that, I noticed my eyes repeatedly went around this happy little ride of doom, and was super pleased with how visually exciting it was to look at.

Two other things I’d point out, is that I attempt to enhance the visual impact of the hill by angling all the dominant straight lines toward it, and made an effort to place the two key points of interest on the 3rds grid to keep it reasonably balanced.

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February 16, 2015