more paintings

Hey there everyone,

today I'll give you some more art. This first one is a work in Progress. As I mentioned earlier, I'm trying out new techniques. This is how far my layering and super fine brush detail-painting has come as of now:

"Nude with tentacles, blue"
Acrtylics on canvas,
70 x 110 cm

It's still far from finished, but I'd like to take my time with this one. Breaks of a few weeks can be pretty helpful when I'm not clear what exactly I want to change in a painting.

Here's another thing. A friend of mine had a birthday party a few days ago and I painted him a little painting. He likes apocalyptic visions, weird stuff and elephants, so I combined these ingredients. It's called "the 5000 elephants of apocalypse", is about 40x50 cm big and was made in a completely different technique: very quick, raw, big brush strokes, more focus on colors and composition than details. The reaction of the party people (and the birthday man) were great, and some said they paricularly liked this rough style. I do, too. Looks like I won't specialize in the slow, detailed technique anytime soon.
This absurd, catastrophic topic is also something I enjoy. Might be that you'll see more of this otherworldly, bizarre stuff soon.

Excuse the crappy photo, I'll try to make a better one:


Thirdly, here's Cthulhu II, which I made earlier this year and somehow haven't posted yet. I wanted to make a really majestic, magic-the-gathering-style portrait of the Great Old One, so that's this with the strong vertical direction and energy bolts and all.
I will do more Lovecraft/Cthulhu, probably darker and more sinister the next time.

"Cthulhu II"
A. on C.
60x80 cm (I guess)

And finally, the video I mentioned some posts ago is finished. Have a look!

That was a fun project. 2 weeks of storyboarding, 4 weeks of animation and cutting, no boss or co-workers, no fixed hours, but just 6 weeks of free, creative work. And the band loves it. Who's next? :D

repost, this time with a proper photo

...also, I changed some details in the anatomy. If you've got some time to spare, find the differences between this one and the original :D


"nude with tentacles, red"
Acrylics on canvas, 60x90 cm, 2009

The next piece for this series is almost done. As I mentioned earlier, I keep learning stuff with every painting. Sometimes even when I don't paint at all (I was busy making an animated music video in the last few weeks, should be up soon), since I will always dig around the web for tutorials and "how-to"-pages from other artists. Since I last worked on a painting I learned a lot about layering and translucent paint. Incorporating these techniques makes the process slower, but the results become better. I guess I'll finish the next one within the next two weeks, and then it's time for another commissioned painting I'm already pretty excited about. Stay tuned, there's a lot going on!