2/27/21 Forget Me Not

 

2/26/21 Icon Accidental study continues…

 Worked today on jewelry and the apple hand, mostly. Added more mottling to the skin. Made background fully black. Image has 3 days snapshots here together with today’s being the rightmost. Maybe 75% done?

02/25/21 Inside Outside

I seem to be really drawn to this color right now, which is interesting because I spent a lot of my life with a very strong aversion to pink. But this crazy-strong ultra-watermelon is really doing something for me right now. When I was doing this, I was listening to an audiobook where the protagonists were really misunderstanding each other and feeling betrayed. No idea how that plays into what it is, but there you go.

02/23/21 Icon Accidental study continues

Not a lot of progress today, but some. Much more work than progress, really. But hair is fun. 

02/23/21 Icon Accidental study—In Progress

Does this look familiar? I’m giving it another go.  I saw this photo of @iconaccidental (Instagram) back in the summer and thought, "I've SO got to turn that orange into an apple!" I did one stab at it back then and it was OK but I intend to keep doing them until I finally am able to do an analog painting (no "undo button") of this without gridding it out and absolutely copying the photo. 

For this try, I'm still tracing the outlines of shapes and recoloring things myself, checking against the photo and correcting as I go. I'd say I'm maybe 50% done now. Definitely more to do with the hair, jewelry, skin texture, coloring, etc. Pretty much everything. Gah! People are worse than waves!

2/23/21 Quick basement painting

 My view from the couch.

2/21/21 Swells —Final

 

02/20/21 Nope. Wasn’t there. Still evolving.

 I worked on this all afternoon. It has a mind of its own.

2/19/21 Almost there

 Art. It’s 4am somehow and I’m still not done but very very close. 

2/17/21 More waves

 Trying to get a hold on the structure of the spaces between waves.

2/16/2021 Contemporary take on the waves thing

 

2/16/21 Flotsam—Still working it

 

2/15/21 Flotsam—Reworking

 You can’t tell, but I’ve spent a lot of time fussing with this and it’s now very much in progress and unfinished. Well, you can tell that last part. 

02/15/2021 Flotsam—More waves

 Gee, it didn’t seem so dark when I was doing it. 

The deal with the waves....

So it’s becoming apparent I have this thing right now about doing waves with an apple floating in the foreground. I’ll stop doing it when that nudge to do it feels satisfied, which is... not yet. Hope you don’t get bored, but I gotta get it out of my system!

2/12-13/21 Jetsam

 I worked on this for 4 hours or so, because I lost it 2x and it’s so engrossing. Now it’s 4:15 am.  Help!

02/12/21 Derelict

 

02/12/21 Enough

 I just really like this detail and the composition of it cropped this way. 

02/11/2021 Enough

 

02/10/21 Still No Paddle

 

02/09/21 No Paddle

 I’m not thrilled with this, but it’s what I did today.

2/5/2021 All The Brushes (ProCreate)

 

2/5/2021 Flower Power (and Myrtle) ProCreate Brush(s)

 

2/5/21 Old Beach ProCreate Brush

 

2/5/2021 Spectra ProCreate Brush

 

02/02/21 Storm Bay ProCreate Brush

 

02/03/21 Three Apples

These were made using only a circle brush: different sized circles of different opacities.

02/02/2021 Space Doodle

 

02/02/2021 Hair!

 

02/01/2021 Power Apple

 Playing with ProCreate’s default ‘vintage’ brushes...