She was kneeling there

I found an image and manipulated it in Photoshop to create this scene. I then set out to painting it. I want it to seem metallic and reflective.

The center of the painting

This Bear was stopped by the test of time

I give myself some rules with different paintings to help develop my skill set. This one I made myself work very quickly like playing drums.

This painting is less done. This bear is half dead half alive and struggling to stay alive.

Lower Paw Detail

Made this from my office window on 4th and Oak in Portland Oregon. It is peaceful to me, and I like how things appear and vanish. This reminded me to post a link to Freendull’s Youtube Channel. It is as good a way to get to know me as any I guess. Very silly stuff, and some pointless talking. I have a computer full of footage and once a month or more I boil it all down into something funny.

Be on the lookout for Baba Ranks my next feature film.

Couldn’t be happier. Now have track lighting and two more tables. These are the first set of paintings since the renovation was completed. Still works in progress. Trying to be more patient in the layers and have resigned to using only neomeglip as a building medium for both of these.

This is the final studio wall before we took the hammers to it.  I started this right at the beginning of using this studio space and it was many things over the years.  The left side was inspiration for sketching and observing different lighting.  The right side was layers and layers of drawings, doodles, painting, parties, frustration, and studying.  

The roof had to be repaired, and the new space is going to kick ass.  See my photography page for details.

I enjoy making light drawings using long exposure times and various light sources. The key is to do it at night or in a dark space. I use a Nikon D70 and in manual mode set the shutter to 4 - 20 seconds and execute whatever idea I have. You almost always get better results with more people.

The image above was made in photo shop, but the image below shows the raw image before photoshopping. I made the raw image by putting LED lights into a shopping bag and then making sweeping movements in front of the camera outside at night. I had my wife taking the pictures free hand to washout sharp edges. Because of the high contrast and solid black you can change your photoshop layer mode to “lighten” and then all the black falls away and you get interesting intersections of light.

Here are some great flickr light drawing groups

Flickr Light Junkies
Flickr Light Painting
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