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Another Sunny Day

back to good old Photoshop! I recently got Photoshop CS5 and I played around with it this weekend. They finally implemented a keyboard shortcut for the color picker. If you hit control+option+command (on the Mac) you get a floating color picker window. It's still not the best solution but better than having to do three mouse clicks to get to your desired color. If you hit control and option, you can quickly change the brush size which is similar to the function in Painter. The content aware fill function is pretty amazing. Looking forward to find out more about CS5.

Doodling

This is the painting of the workshop I did for ImagineFX. It's painted entirely with the "Pogo Sketch Stylus" on the iPad using the "Brushes" application and color corrected in "Photogene".

And here as promised the progress video.

Update: Sorry I had to take the video down for now.

ImagineFX workshop

I did an iPad painting workshop for the September issue of Imagine FX. I used "Brushes" and "Photogene" for the painting. I also made a progress video but I couldn't finish it in time because of the tight deadline so it's not included on the DVD but I'll post it here later together with the finished painting. Hope you'll enjoy!

Meanwhile a little preview...

28th SketchCrawl

Yesterday was the 28th SketchCrawl. The SF starting point was Crissy Field. I was sitting on the pier and painted this piece with water colors + moleskine water color sketchbook. There were strong winds and it was very cold.

I needed a warmer place so I stayed a while in the warming hut right next to the pier. This time I tried something new. I drew a sketch in my sketchbook, I took a picture of the sketch with my iphone and imported the photo into the brushes app. Then I started painting over it with my finger. It worked really great and I will certainly do that again. So here is the sketch I did traditionally.

and this is what I painted on my phone.

Here is the progress video:

And finally another water color piece at the palace of fine arts which was our afternoon meeting point. It was a great crawl!

Moonshine Blog

Be sure to check out the Moonshine blog!
The Blog is featuring artwork not included in the book and artist interviews.

I'm planning to be at the Gallery Nucleus on september 3rd for the book signing. Hope to see you there!

Moonshine

These are two paintings I did for Moonshine. A book of DreamWorks artists personal artwork coming soon. There will be also a Moonshine Gallery Show starting in 4 Weeks at the Gallery Nucleus in LA. Read below for more informations.

My two paintings below will be available for sale during that time. I don't know if I can make it to the show since I'm up here in the Bay Area but hope to see you guys there in case I'll go.

 

Gallery Nucleus Presents
Moonshine
August 14, 2010 - September 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 14th, 2010 (7 pm - 11 pm)
Closing Reception/Book Signing: Friday, September 3rd, 2010 (7 pm - 11 pm)

Alhambra, CA – Gallery Nucleus is pleased to present MOONSHINE, an exhibit highlighting work from over 45 enormously talented and prolific Dreamworks Studio art directors, character and production designers, and visual development artists.

Moonshine features art made during the precious little times of day when these artists are not busily working on stunning animated films. These Dreamworks artists have contributed their respective talents to upcoming films, such as Shrek Forever After, Puss in Boots, The Croods, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, MegaMind, The Guardians of Childhood, Scared Shrekless, and Kung Fu Panda Holiday.

Monsters Under The Bed

After a long break I tackled traditional media again. Painted with acrylics on wood panel.

These two paintings will be available for sale at the Moonshine Gallery Show in August. I'll post more informations about it later.