http://www.chromaticblack.com Delving into the murky depths of oil painting Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:17:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've put a few layers of glazed color on my angel painting: [caption id="attachment_272" align="alignnone" width="238" caption="Angel work in progress 2 (oil on panel)"][/caption] This is the first time I have glazed flesh tone over an underpainting and I like the way it's working out! The above pic has 3 layers of ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/oil-painting/angel-painting-update-2 A much more varied and brilliant palette than I normally use: [caption id="attachment_267" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Palette of colors for my angel painting"][/caption] Those are the colors with which I have been glazing my angel painting. http://www.chromaticblack.com/oil-painting/angelic-palette I started this painting a couple weeks ago, it will be a Christmas gift and is a gently smiling angel looking downwards, with big wings stretching up on the sides and a bejeweled golden crown on her head. So far I have completed a good portion of the underpainting, which ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/oil-painting/christmas-angel-painting-work-in-progress Multiform clouds of mist obscure unearthly blue pools and strange lichened structures loom over crumbling tombstones. Anubis watches over an arcane garden with its odd flora and steaming central pool...eroded, swampy cemeteries adjoin surreal towers. A silently staring eye peers down upon the city...a floating aqueduct hovers above a Scarab-shaped ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/completed/dream-city-1-completed I finally finished my Cracky Chan oil painting after many moons had waxed and waned and after countless revisions. Many times I thought I was done but decided to make changes, sometimes major. Most recently I debated for a couple weeks over whether I wanted to make major changes again ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/completed/cracky-chan-painting-completed I completed The Well III a week or so ago, after letting it dry enough I put a layer of retouching varnish on it and here ya go: [caption id="attachment_191" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Well III oil painting by Airn LeBus, oil on panel 9x9 inches, 2008"][/caption] I think maybe this is the ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/completed/the-well-iii-completed My Jovial Jack O'Lantern painting is in this great Day of the Dead / Halloween art show running all October here in Santa Barbara: Noche De Los Muertos Muddy Waters Cafe 508 E. Haley St., Santa Barbara, California (805) 966-9328 The reception for the show is Oct 18th at 7PM, all ages, or go by ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/halloween/a-jovial-noche-de-los-muertos My dastardly, evil, most horrible former web hosting company decided, along with a ton of unannounced downtime, to corrupt / delete some of my databases used for this site's gallery and not have any sort of backup on their side. I of course backed up everything myself except for one ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/about/changes-to-site-layout-gallery-and-images Tentacles emerge from a subterranean well as sickly broiling vapors swirl around the misty oozing swamp. Luminous fungi cast an eerie radiance on crumbling stone as the slithering, ropy tentacles writhe in the moonlight. Update 11-02-08: The Well III is done, go here to see the finished painting. [caption id="attachment_50" align="alignnone" ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/lovecraft/the-well-iii-a-lovecraft-inspired-oil-painting OK OK I know 7 updates is a bit much but I want a better pic here so this is taken outside in better lighting and I fixed some stuff, Cracky Chan painting almost done booya zooomy zoom: [caption id="attachment_63" align="alignnone" width="244" caption="Cracky Chan work in progress 09-24-08"][/caption] This painting has come ... http://www.chromaticblack.com/cracky-chan/cracky-chan-update-7