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more underwater

This is a new painting that I am currently working on for my underwater series. In this one,more so that in the other ones, I was trying to push the texture of the palette knife...

Ukrainian mail order bride

oil paint

mixed media (ink, acrylic, oil)

The title of the painting speaks for itself.

The primary goal of this project was to poke fun at the current situation in the Eastern European countries, where the mail order bride business is a common occurrence.

a new painting .yay!

Dream:Motherhood

graphite pencil, watercolors, photoshop

In this experimental project I wanted to recreate a dream-like environment that would have a surrealistic atmosphere. It is a dream about motherhood, where a fish is a symbol of a new life.

dream

the garden

my studio

I am working on my underwater series

Self Portrait

Oil

City Concept

Photoshop, Corel Painter

This sketch is inspired by the project i did last semester in my illustration class

4th painting

25/36
oil painting, palette knife

first painting

oil, 6/4 feet

third painting in progress

palette knife, oil

second painting

close up

The fate of the scary painting

Marie and I are working on the underwater series. This painting is my first one, there are few more to go.

Painting that no longer exists (I "drowned" it)

Oil Painting 6/4ft
fall 2008

concept sketch

first stage of the sketch

corel painter

experimentation

Recipe:

Shof's ink wash, my charcoal drawing, and photoshop miracle

Surface Design

quick digital fix

Illustration Project 2

Acrylic 11/15

Illustration Project

Acrylic 11/15

watercolor 30/36

watercolor sketches

Olichka

watercolor, 30/36

self portrait

acrylic 30/36

Acrylic, 30/36

salt shakers

Teapot (functional)

ceramics, fall/2006

ceramics, fall/2006

faucets

clay,2006

Life Drawing

Painting in process

I am working on this painting with a palette knife. Lately, I find myself not satisfied with the results that brushes produce, they give too much control. And when I have a lot of control over a brush, a painting seems to die. It become systematic and too technical.

Depicting movement in my paintings has always been one of my goals. Sometimes i really wish the imagery did move literally.
I feel like through the repetition of forms I can achieve this goal to some extend...

Painting that disappeared...

speed painting

Kuzjma. My grandfather.

thumbnail

deconstruction 1

nude

this is one of the figurative painting i did last year in my spare time. nowadays when i have a free time i tend to paint in photoshop. lazy me...

hm-m-m. I need to post something. Lately I' ve been so uninspired to paint, that when I hold a brush I don't know what to do with it anymore... Artistic crisis?
Nevertheless, I have many painting I've been hiding under my bed for the last two years. I suppose I need to expose them to the audience...

This is my mommy's version of the same landscape. I love it so much.
I really wish she continues painting!!! She has a great potential!!!

This is the landscape painting i did while staying at home in Ukraine.
I was working mostly with a palette knife, which made the painting process faster
me and my mum , who never painted before, were working on the same image.
It was very inspiring painting together.

Funlola again!

Funlola Coker.

5th stage

P.S. Shofela, thanks for posing, I am glad you survived the torture of the photoshoot . I know it wasn't easy for you ... :)

4th stage

3rd stage

2nd stage

1st stage

This is the portrait of my dearest friend Kenneth Shofela Coker. Painting him was enjoyable and captivating.

Hm... Maybe that is why I worked on it for so long, stretching a pleasure..

Am I updating my blogger?!. Finally... It feels like reaching a top of a mountain. I need to discipline myself to get into a habit of keeping up with it...
Anyway, one of the recent paintings that I have been working on is the painting I did for the National Portrait Gallery Competition.
The process of the painting was long due to many distractions and procrastination on my part... so having it finished makes me want to celebrate.
Here are some photographs of it in progress.

This is a finished version of the painting... As I've said earlier, I am not very happy with it. It makes me want to go over it with gesso, which I might do eventually. I think, I lost my original intention for the painting during the process of working on it. I found out that working on one piece for a long period of time does nothing ,but harms it, taking away life from painting.

I am doing this painting for my painting class. It is still in progress, but i prefer the way it looks on this picture. I added more figures to it and realized that i overworked the painting. unfortunately, it lost the freshness of the brushwork... :(

identity

It is one of the paintings i did for Holiday Bazaar, I was really pleased to find out that it was sold.
This painting was an experimental for me ( it is the first one to combine oil with acrylic). Working on it i was relying a lot on spontaneity, no planning. I think, i am satisfied with the result.