Happy Holidays

Wishing you creative adventures in the New Year!

Something Different!

Something a little different that I've been working on:

It's weird for me to get used to being able to do whatever kind of art I want without rules or guidelines. I am almost hesitant to do anything beyond what I know will be successful. But that's what being an artist is all about, isn't it?

Oh, and here's some flowers!

"To the violence of the sun!"

So I've been working on this main page a lot...


And here are some sketches for my next oil paintings:


This sketch is from life, a girl sitting by the window at Boulder Coffee's Open Mic Night. I think her boyfriend was performing.


This sketch is from a photo and a great adventure a few years back.

VW Love.

Work in progress, obviously. This will be the main page of my website, and will be shrunk down and placed above the menu buttons on the other pages. Loving it!

"Can't Buy me Loooovvee!"

Finished with this digital painting, for now. I will probably go back to it.


And here is a sketch of a good friend. Unfinished, but the person got up before I could finish:


I am also taking a web design class this quarter and I have been thinking about ideas for my sight for a while. I want to use this bus as my main page navigation, and then use it without the text above the navigation on each page. Obviously it will be green.



2 Days until the Illustration Opening at Gallery R. See you there!
Love,
Sorrento.

Revisits.

revisit [riːˈvɪzɪt] vb (tr):

1. to visit again

2. to re-examine (a topic or theme) after an interval, with a view to making a fresh appraisal

 

When I find myself trying to change in a direction that doesn't feel right, I seem to revisit old love.

 

  

 

I wish I had a better camera. Soon.

"If Maria had a VW Bus..." (In Progress)

My current and last series for Visual Essay is a series of landscapes featuring a traveling VW Westfalia. I really wanted to get away from the caricature paintings for a while and regroup some stray brain cells.

These are all currently underpaintings. I started some highlights and shaddows but for the most part they are mostly midtones. I tried several different techniques to see where my strengths lie.

So far the third technique is coming out the most naturally.

I like painting landscapes because it really gets you to analyze a space and how you would deal with it without having to deal with anything that has to be completely exact. I am definitely a little rusty with this since my last finished landscape was a few years back (I've done a lot of sketching and watercolors, but no paintings!). I am surprised at how much I've improved, kind of interesting.