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Painting number 5 is alive!
DC’s new 52 didn’t have many titles that really interested me. One that did catch my eye was Wonder Woman. Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang have been doing amazing work on that book. Focusing on the Greek mythology aspect of her character for me heightened my interest in the character a great deal.
Wonder Woman is a fantasy type of character, there is no point having her break up bank robberies. That’s boring. Batman does that with more style anyway. Taking her back to her origins made sense. Kept the character more interesting, showing her dealing with her crazy “family”.
Azzarello and Chiang’s run on the title is almost done, but as always, I highly recommend you check out the collected editions if you’re looking for a good, fun comic!
Hope you enjoy this painting.
Cheers
Marc
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The second painting of my mini painting series for LibraryCon.
Everyone loves Totoro, right? Yeah, me too.
Cheers
Marc
In anticipation of LibraryCon I thought I would need some fresh work to put on display. However I haven’t done enough sequential work to warrant a new comic. Instead I thought it might be fun to sell some original artwork.
I’m doing some mini paintings to have on sale. I thought I would just paint some characters who interest me in some way or another for fun. All the paintings are just a little smaller than A5, and will be for sale for a price of $30.
I’ll post these in order of when I painted them. The first one is Star-lord, man.
Guardians of the Galaxy was such a fun flick, that I figured it would be fun to paint this dude.
Cheers!
Marc
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I was involved in a group gallery show – called “NZ Goes Pop”, which is actually still on (until the 28th) at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro, North Carolina. The show is a couple of weeks in now, so i figure I had better show the work that I sent on over to exhibit.
I did not have a lot of time to put the pieces together, because we had to get them shipped over there on time. That was my biggest concern. Getting it all done, and to the destination on time. Fortunately for me I was asked to contribute to the show just before December, and knowing I would have some time over the Christmas / New Years period, I knew I could allocate some of my holidays to the work.
Knowing I had to get two pieces done. I started on the concepts for my first piece early. Trying to get a feel for what I wanted to do. Eventually I got it sketched out, and then began working on the final piece.
Interestingly enough, while I used to work exclusively in traditional media, over the last year I had not. It was fun to go back to it and try and refresh myself on the tactile feel of pen and paper and ink again.
The first piece I did is called “Shake Girl”. It was penciled and inked, and then I coloured it with Gouache paints.
Here is the colour rough I did digitally, to get a feel for the colours I wanted to use:
I ended up going with a similar, though more pulled back palate, here is the final physical painting:
I put it in a frame, and the piece was done!
I’ll do another blog about the second piece soon. Meanwhile, “Shake Girl” is still currently available for sale, as far as I am aware. If you’re are interested, get in touch will Wootini and they will be able to answer any enquiries you have about it!
<EDIT – “Shake Girl is now for sale in the Wootini online store at a very affordable price!>
Thanks for reading,
Marc