Island Times 010

Always forget to post my weekly progress here. I uploaded the Island Times episode 10 on Saturday. This past week I chose a little different tack on putting together the video. I spent a little time evaluating the clips and then scripted a theme for the video. Following that script, I built each of the scenes separately into component videos which I composited with transitions into the final product. Seemed to produce a little better story of the week. Wishing that I had a way of improving the quality of the video some. Trying to combine footage from several different types of cameras makes it feel like I am working too hard in post.

Some progress to report from the studio as well. I finished "A New Best Friend," 9x12 inches, acrylic on canvas panel. I am pleased with the outcome but not so much that it is only the first work for 2021. It was a painting that I started over a month ago and then never went back to it until this passed weekend.

"A New Best Friend"

Covid-19 Coping Week 3

Spending most of my socially distant time, this week, in my studio. I was able to finish up the fourth in a series of four portraits of my grandchildren. These works are a departure for me from a traditional painted portrait look. Over this past winter I focused quite a lot of time on learning how to paint digitally. I tried a number of apps, tablets and programs in order to find tools I was comfortable with using. It was also important that the end product not be just a print of a digital painting but an acrylic or oil painting on canvas panel. With that in mind, I ended up deciding on the following workflow:

• Artworks were going to be conceptualized, drawn and painted in an app called Infinite Painter This app is only available in ios or android. That being said, I used a Wacom One Creative Pen Display connected to my Samsung Note 10 Plus phone in order to take advantage of this particular app.
• Digital paintings were cleaned up and finalized on my MacBook Pro connected to the same pen display using a painting application called Corel Painter The final digital painting was then printed for reference.
• The line work of the digital reference print was redrawn on the canvas panel and rendered in color using acrylic paint.

My plan is to use this same workflow for another series of paintings. Hope you enjoy.

"Emery With Water Wing," 11x14inches

"Riley Floating," 11x14inches

"Colton Sleeping," 6x8inches

"Finnley Sitting," 6x8inches