Category: Process

Reference photo vs. painting

5/12/2018

I wanted to quickly share a reference photo I used for the whale in my painting "Dive" alongside the finished painting. I hope it's interesting to see how I work off of the photo to bring my vision for the painting to life. Painting from reference photos is important for ensuring that each element of the painting looks realistic.

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Time lapse video of the painting of "Aglow"

3/15/2018

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Here is a time lapse video showing the painting process of "Aglow". Angler fish are fascinating (and very alien) creatures and it was a lot of fun to paint one. This is the first time I've ever filmed myself painting and the first video if its kind that I've made, but I plan to do more like this in the future (and hopefully I'll get faster at the editing process as well). I didn't film absolutely every minute of painting (I forgot to turn the camera on a couple times), but I got most of the process. Enjoy!

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First post! How I paint nebulae and use reference photos

2/22/2018

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Hello friends! I want to use this blog page to share a little more about my process, any news I have, ideas for future projects, sources of inspiration, etc. Hopefully you find it interesting.

(This is a post that originally appeared on my Patreon page, which I've stopped using for the moment)

For my first post, I wanted to share a little bit about my process and how I go about painting space and the nebulae that appear in almost all of my paintings. I never paint specific celestial bodies—copying a photograph exactly isn’t really something that interests me, and I prefer to paint imaginary planets, nebulae etc. The universe is so vast and unknown that it’s likely that objects such as those that appear in my artwork really do exist somewhere! Though I don’t specifically paint Mars or Saturn or any other familiar planets or space objects, I do work from reference photos as inspiration and as a way to make my celestial bodies and nebulae look more realistic. I often look at several different reference photos when painting one nebula and combine varied aspects of those photos. As an example, here are two paintings alongside the reference photos that I used as inspiration for the nebulae.

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Reference photo vs. painting

Time lapse video of the painting of "Aglow"

First post! How I paint nebulae and use reference photos

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