My Other Passion

[torontoke]

Great stuff @dannyboy602
I hope you post up some oil work too.
My experience has been that oil is a lil easier because it takes so long to dry. It leaves a much bigger window for touching up and or wiping mistakes away.
Now you got me itching to break out my gear and get into it.

 

[Padawanbater2]

Great stuff @dannyboy602
I hope you post up so oil work too.
My experience has been that oil is a lil easier because it takes so long to dry. It leaves a much bigger window for touching up and or wiping mistakes away.
Now you got me itching to break out my gear and get into it.

 

[dannyboy602]

That's quite a compliment, thanks. I'm a purist and use transparent watercolor with almost no opaque white paint, ever. If I can get my values right on the big masses it gives a more realistic look. That is one of the hardest things to learn.

Are you using 100% watercolor for everything?

 

[dannyboy602]

Atil, Sonora Mexico street scene

 

[Ms. Nobody]

oh i wish I could paint! Really beautiful!

 

[Padawanbater2]

Yo, Danny, how are you outside environment paintings?

I'd love to see what you can produce in the way of portraits or, maybe even better, straight from your imagination, no reference!

 

[Hookabelly]

@dannyboy602 Wow! I guess I should venture out of TNT more often. I had no Idea. Really enjoyed looking at those. Was going to ask if you painted people, then further along saw the latest posts. YOu shouldn't be so critical of yourself. Art is how YOU are expressing yourself. Doesn't matter if others receive it. (but it IS really good BTW). I know how you feel, exposing something you create makes you very vulnerable, but hey, if we can't show our soft underbellies, we can't grow.

 

[BarnBuster]

I'm just blown away, danny

 

[Beyriclet]

Great, man!

 

[dannyboy602]

thx guys...I'm tryin...I am anxious to start painting in oils. I love painting people. Portraits are so much fun. I'm pretty good at portraits in charcoal and graphite, no experience in oils yet. That will change. Pada I suck at working from memory. My memory is a mess. When I was in art school we had nude models almost every day. Soon as I turned away from the model I was lost. I'm all about the visual.

 

[Oregon Gardener]

I do draw mostly charcoal. Graphite. Not much else.

Thanks for sharing. The work is beautiful. This is a series I worked on from a recent painting class. They had to work together or stand alone. One of them one a prize , honorable mention, at the student show but someone left a note that said " First Prize for biggest bleeding heart asshole"

 

[.Pinworm.]

Just amazing!

 

[eye exaggerate]

Here's some art from the gallery I'm working in. I didn't create it. Its mesquitewood with turquiose inlay. Very pricey stuff but beautiful.
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I'm doing some turquoise glow-in-the-dark resin inlays, fun stuff

 

[dannyboy602]

tryna build a strong body of work so I can have my first show here in Tubac. Its only my best pieces that I will even show to people.

 

[Padawanbater2]

Great job as always, man!

I know you'll do well at any exhibitions you put your work in

A small constructive criticism I have that I hope you take positively would be to work a little bit on the horizontal stroke. The shadow on the building in this last piece is slightly off, it makes my mind kinda confused for a second when looking at it.

A small suggestion to improve your pieces with a little more control with watercolors is add some colored pencils! My art teacher in high school pointed that out to me when I told her how much I hated using watercolors because they lacked the control I was used to with pencils/pens

As always, fantastic pieces of art, man

 

[BarnBuster]

Very much reminded of Maynard Dixon when i see your work. Well done, Danny!

 

[RainbowBrite86]

I love these!! I'm so jealous, I wish I could do stuff like this. Looks awesome, Danny.

 

[dannyboy602]

critiques are welcome. I don't like how these repro. they seem to lose a lot imo....idk but mb too, I could learn from that.
I did this one tonight instead of drinking. now its time to crack one open haha

 

[dannyboy602]

shit I don't know how to make these pictures smaller...anybody know how???
a small sketch. a view of the tumacocori mission

 

[Blue Wizard]

I reduce the image size in paint. I'm sure there is a better way to do it, but that's all I've got and it usually works ok.