Happy World Vegan Day.

In honor of World Vegan Day, which is November 1st, I'm posting these studies that I'm doing for a painting I'm trying to work out.

Sarah H.

This is a drawing that I did during my last few months at Laafa. This was a class instructed by a wonderful woman named Kate Sammons who I believe I have mentioned before. In any case I also did a painting that was somewhat similar to this (of the same model) but I didn't like it as much.

The painting for my alien landscape.

This is the painted version of the landscape that I was working on. As you can see I eliminated the space ship and changed some other compositional elements. I feel like I learned alot about harmonizing color and value working on this.

Alien planet with spaceship.

This is a charcoal study that I did in preperation for a painting I'm working on. I've had an interest in exoplanets since I was young, and ever since I started art school I wanted to create a picture like this. I wanted to address the problem of how someone would light a scene on a planet when there was more than one star in the star system and still give it the sensability of a traditional landscape painting. I decided to set my planet in a trinary star system like the star system next door to ours (the Alpha Centauri system.) The plan is to have one star as big as ( or larger) than our sun providing the main light "off screen" and two, dim red dwarfs in the actual composition also providing a limited amount of light. I've also done a few color compositions.

Head studies.

These are from earlier this quarter. Hopefully after I'm done at Laafa I'll be updating more.

I'm going to try out this new look for my blog.

It seemed interesting to me.

I will be trying to update more regularly as I finish my last quarter.

I also wanted to share the website of new friend and teacher Kate Sammons.

Http://www.katesammons.com/

Mermaid project.

This is something from a project I was working on involving mermaids.