I spent a couple hours the night before making this giant stencil that consisted of 14(!) pieces of poster board taped together. The next day, I went back out to the site and got to work on mounting it to … Continue reading
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Street Art Progress: Day Four
I continued with more cleaning and polishing. Lots of little things that most people wouldn’t even notice, but were a huge problem for me. Other people see art in my work. I see flaws and errors. With time, I’ve learned … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Three
Here, I fixed some of the proportion issues I had and tightened up a few things. I was really unhappy at this point. Cold and unhappy. It was nearing the end of the first day and I was frustrated as … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day Two
With my guidelines in place, it was time to lay down where my colors will go. I approached this the same way I do all of my paintings, going from dark to light, from background to foreground. For this particular … Continue reading
Street Art Progress: Day One
I had the great fortune to be invited to do a piece for this building in Kansas City, KS. Doing a big street art piece is something I’ve been wanting to do for about a year now and I’ve been … Continue reading
Tiger Hotel
This year for the holidays I decided to do paintings for everyone in my family. Since we had our first holiday get-together, I can start sharing these with the rest of y’all! This one was done for my in-laws who … Continue reading
The Creative Side of the Mind
Acrylic and stenciled spray paint on 2? x 3? canvas. This painting was definitely a sum of its parts not working the first time around. I painted over the figures about three times until I was happy with the tones. … Continue reading
Another Hummingbird Stencil
This is probably the most detailed stencil I’ve ever done. It took me about five hours to cut out, if you can believe it! I made sure to put a fresh blade in my knife for this, as the intricate … Continue reading
Hummingbird Stencil
For my next painting I wanted to use more representational stencils, than the decorative ones I had done up to now. I flipped through my animal encyclopedias that I’ve had as long as I can remember to find something that … Continue reading
Fire in the Eyes, Smoke From the Mouth
Acrylic and stenciled spray paint on 2′ x 3′ canvas. After the first stencil dried, I worked a little more on the hat, then went to work on the rest of the stenciling. First I did the white on the … Continue reading
Process: Fire in the Eyes, Smoke From the Mouth – Day Four
A little more painting was done, on the arm and the hat. Then I stenciled in the white on the face. That’s right, the white was done with spray paint. Why? Why not just paint that with acrylics like the … Continue reading
Process: Fire in the Eyes, Smoke From the Mouth – Day Three
For the under-painting, I opted to go with a palette knife. The blade worked really differently on canvas, as the paint had all of those pores and crevices to fill in. I also did a little bit of work with … Continue reading