Los Losser Lost and paintprogress of the trygometric cycles

 

It has been silent on the blog, yet a lot has happened.

Mostly preparation and  such for the exposition. The opening will be less then a week from now.

And yes, you are all invited if you would like to see my work or that of my former classmates.

And of course, I have also worked on some paintings. Luckily I could apply a ground layer and base colour on the panels before I went to Spain. Thus when I arrived home I could start painting.

As you see, I have now arrived at the 'grey' or dead layer.

And of course, I worked on my website, still visible at https://kyoffeh.wixsite.com/sethsryt

Also the small vellum paintings are dry enough to apply the colour layer on it. Which will be an exciting experimental process.

To apply a line on prepared MDF

It has been a while, been to Spain for 8 days.
Thus progress has been slow, or so it seemed..

Yet I have been tinkering around with a website,
this free webservice called wix.
This is my website, it will be updated but feel free to comment on it here,
give me constructive criticism or tips on how to make it better. :)
Or what you do like. Go play around with it!

https://kyoffeh.wixsite.com/sethsryt

Also when I arrived home I have been sketching and creating lineart for the next few works.
And designing a method to get my primary sketch onto the MDF panel. Without losing the good lines yet also keeping freedom to create more powerful lines as well as freedom to paint without too much constraints.
Basically to create guidelines.

Yes on the first I forgot the arm. On the last one I forgot a line for the bewb. But I did correct this afterwards. :)

Whoops the final version of the horizontal prepped one had more missing. Here the correct version:

Slow progress

 Progress has been slow, there was this thing of needing selfies of me being at work.
Yet I am horrible at selfies.

Either way, did finish these so far. Last image I figured needs a little more black, which I was unable to apply in one go.
Interesting detail about these is that if light comes from the back, favourably just a little, the white will actually shine through.
The idea is to make another layer, this time with colour to create a shine through effect, almost like stained glass, yet it also refers to the tedious process of glazed paintings.
As well as in digital art, they also work in layers and often use a layer of ontop of another.

Quite small, yet packed with references to old and new. :)
And that is only the technique..

300 views, yay, also, still working

Last days I've been struggling with getting that second vellum painting flat.
Which made it just more wrinkly, I'm suspecting that acrylics and vellum just aren't made for each other..

On the other hand, started a oil painting on vellum and that worked out well.
Though it still somewhat warps.. I have great plans for vellum, but I first need to get it to not warp or find another way to work with it..

Either way, last few days I've been busy preparing MDF boards for painting the triangular paintings I've sketched out before. The Trygometric Cycle aka the Creation of a Moonowlith seen from an Levitating Observatory Ship, Triangular. LOST?
Might do some grayscale painting of it later..

On the verge of success and failure

And yes that title is just how I feel right now.

The small painting worked out well, the small brushes worked wonders on the tiny details.
Also I forgot to scan the paintline progress, though, might have scanned it somewhere, no idea..
Anyway that worked out well but..

The parchment or vellum was a whole different story.
Vellum doesn't mind oils, but it apparently hates acrylics, probably due to the water.
And with hate I mean that it will curl up, not even complaining about the irregular surface acrylic will create. Which was surprising, a learning experience yet also frustrating.

Got to the darks tho, now it is under the scanner for two reasons.
First it is to get the vellum flat again, and second of course also to scan for your viewing pleasure.

So that will take some time considering if Vellum will serve my needs.

At least for oilpainting it appeared alright..