Ok, the Spider-woman painting turned out dreadful, but I’m glad to be rid of it. As a reminder, it was my first painting where I didn’t ink or outline the image with a Sharpie.
The Daredevil one was done quick and fast…and boy, it looks it. Smaller canvas, however.
Lastly, the Silver Surfer turned out fine, but usually the photographs don’t do the colors justice.
So I says to my wife
you draw and paint Aquaman and so will I.
Paintings are up at MY myspace.com
Next day, I says, let’s each draw Green Arrow and Black Canary.
Paintings are up at MY myspace.com
We already have a deviant art account so we’ll see about hosting there more often.
She got competitive with the project. Hers turned out great, don’t you think?
quick note, to direct readers, if any to: myspace.com/jacobbecher where the slideshows are, again, hosting more, yet new paintings. i’m all tuckered out with Transformers, i think, because i painted all the characters i could give a hoot about. well, except Jazz, anyway. i like him and ironhide, wheeljack…and maybe a few more gen 1 guys (notice the trend?) so i don’t think i’ll be doing anymore and certainly not at that…what? 20 X 19 scale. Starscream was probably the most difficult due to the larger color palette the picture/character demanded. my wife suggested i change the orange sky to green in order to off-set the orange against the red color, but i think i’ll leave it alone. that painting took twice as long as any other and i don’t want to look at it. she says the last one i did of Soundwave turned out best. nice, but hard to believe. i really had to fake body and 3-d.
you’ll notice the spider-woman is a work in progress. indeed, this painting will test my patience because the intent is to capture a more realisitc quality. that is, i am aiming to not outline the picture, unlike all the other paintings, save some of their respective landscapes, without any black outlines. i’m going for a European style like Mobius and i hope you enjoy my first ever attempt to paint without sharpie markers, which have kept me sane and on the straight and narrow. i have to thank my lovely wife for crafting the way we’ve painted hitherto, without her i’d still be a sickening perfectonist and tossing paintings left and right into the garbage (tearing them in half in a fit of rage) before even trying to save the work and try doing things differently for the sake of salvaging art…for art’s sake.
