Having had some nice emails and pm's, I thought it would be fun to show another piece from start to finish...this one will have a squid in it (I can see it now, but it will show up to all of you prior to the end)...

Starting out with a piece of hardboard (masonite, smooth) I prime the surface with my own mix of gesso:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/blank%20slate.JPG

After coming up with the initial idea, I use a series of washes to lay down the beginnings of the backround colours:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/squid1.JPG

inbetween layers of pigment thinned down with clear acrylic (this is called a glaze), I dry the paintings on a table with a 75 watt lamp...too hot and you will blister the surface ! (note the stranraer off to the side, drying also):
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/drying%20table.JPG

Hi Greg,

I rather like the look of the piece on the left, the sunrise/sunset over mountains???.........Love those colours!


J

After laying down 10 to 12 layers of Cadmium Yellow, I start to introduce the reds:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/red.JPG

Here we are after 5 layers of red...a few more to go, then onto the next series of washes! I let each wash dry completely, about 10 minutes inbetween each:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/red%20tones.JPG

oo....very pretty.

OOOOO, this is way to cool...watching an artist at work!! Do continue please.

Sorry about my 24 hour hiatus...ate a rather bad jalapeno chili cheese dog yesterday morning, and spent quite a lot of time being sick...ah well, back to the painting!

I have added on 3 layers of blue glaze here, you can see that the areas that were previously yellow are now green, not from mixing the pigments, but by layering them ! (that is what imparts the glow):
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/3%20layers%20of%20blue.JPG

After these coats have dried a bit, I go back into just the water area and add in more Ultramarine blue to deepen the colour:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/adding%20more%20blue.JPG

Notice all the high tech equipment...I love pot pies, and save every aluminium dish as a mixing platform!!!

and after that has dried for a while...I put in the moon and the beginnings of the little squid in flat white...:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/white%20layer.JPG

more white detailing is added, as well as the vibrant crimson colours to the moon and the squid...and look at the sky, it's full of stars! :
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/whites.JPG

After the whites are laid down, I go over everything with at least three more coats of yellow glaze to soften things and make them glow a bit:
http://members.cox.net/ewaldbros/overcoats%20of%20yellow.JPG

Very nice work :cthulhu: :thumbsup:
Keep posting your artwork :notworth:

TK

Thank you all ! For those of you willing to go out on the financial limb, you could see what this lovely piece looks like close up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3782087121

:shock:

Is there going to be a last-minute bidding war? I know that :twisted: has been ranting on about this. Hmmmm. I'd be toast.

Have had a flurry of emails on this one...would love to see Kat end up on the happy side, but have not heard from her !!!! (whatya guys busy or somethin????)

whatya guys busy or somethin????

It takes a lot of work/time feeding 20 colossal squid - I'm going through 1 submersible, 20 students, 40 penguins and 80 cows each day! Do you know how hard it is to muster 80 cows each night, under the cover of darkness, and to shepard them through the university, then conceal them in my office?

I'm sure I've told you not to eat the shoots from that cactus in your office...

80 cows?? :shock:
cactus shoots?? :bonk:

Greg, great painting, awesome ocean, makes one want to dive right in those waters. Though that all depends on how large that squid actually is. :wink:

The size? Let's presume it's a Coloassal Squid :wink:
Fancy a dive anyone?

:mrgreen: 'Squid at Full Moon Tide' is coming my way! Now to find a worthy frame and, even trickier, a section of wall that looks decent enough to hang it on!

Now to find a worthy frame and, even trickier, a section of wall that looks decent enough to hang it on!

Or... My birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd be glad to assume that particular burden.

Oh man!! It's too late to raise my paddle?? I feel like umm's avatar looks.

Beautious.

Or... My birthday is coming up in a couple of months and I'd be glad to assume that particular burden.

Are you suggesting that TTF frames the picture with your body, or hangs it from your neck? I think she'd take you up on that offer!

:lol:

I would make a butt-ugly frame, but I would let her hang it around my neck if she wanted to. Then that purty little painting could follow her around wherever she went...

If she wanted to bring the painting everywhere wouldnt pulling a wagon just be easier?

In some situations. I also like to think that I'm usually more entertaining than most wagons. You can't really make sport of a wagon.

I wish I had the time to paint. All I do is sketch, and those are usually during classes.


Oh, I just remembered. I did a great cuttle pic a while back. I sketched a sepia apama territorial display and filled in the outline with highlighters, chromatophore by chromatophore. I used yellow, orange, pink, green, and blue colors. After I finished the color, I erased the pencil outline. Sadly, I lost the sketchbook. I have been searching for months, but I cannot find it.

I sense a redo!
-Squidman-

:shock: I missed the end of this thread somehow. Pity I went ahead and framed it... the animated version would have been so much more interesting. Ah well, next time, I guess.
And just to wrap up the loose ends... here she be!