Rembrandt Mastercopy in Oil on paper

update on the Rembrandt copy, it’s finished. I decided I could spend the rest of my life trying to get it to be perfect to the book cover that is my source image, but that wouldn’t teach me much. So here it is, my version of Rembrandts Self Portrait (one of many he did…)

oil on paper. i’ll be showing this (a few people want to see it in person) in the september first friday show out of the jemison family chiro. office. september 5th.

-ev

update.

feel like i’m going outta my mind. oh well.

doing many projects all at once. here’s a little something i’ve had sitting around here for a while. it’s a practice work (hence the bad anatomy), not sure i want to keep it, or sell it for cheap? eh. proly one more layer or so on it and i’ll put it to rest. this is a scan of it (it’s 8×10), and i never realized how different things can look scanned… maybe i’ll post a picture i take of it to show the difference. we’ll see how many breaks from art i need today.

anyways…

i can’t wait to show off the new stuff i’m working on, when i took time with the drawing. heh

-ev

last chance to purchase some of my work

yup, all the artwork that’s hanging right now at the Kalargyros Gallery (112 West Orange Street, Lancaster PA) is basicly spoken for after the show. so if anybody likes the work that’s up there, walk over and pick it up.

i can also do prints of the work, but that’s not an original work of art.

quick recap of what’s up there:

this is the last chance for anybody to buy this original painting. it’s oil on paper, and only $300.

this is the start of my oil painting, the first one that’s ever been shown in a gallery, and this is the last time i’ll be shown in a gallery.

one of the few watercolor/pencil drawings i’ve done, won’t do any more for a while.

this is the last time i’ll be showing this one. so go and pick it up if your interested =)

the show will be up for the rest of august, take a look if you haven’t already.

more art on the way, as well as a much needed redesign of my website. i have some comic work coming up that’ll post soonish (when it’s done… heh) and a pinup of one of my favorite comic characters. so check back in a few days for some updates =).

-evan

colin zerbe on ebay?

word. my friend and fellow artist Colin Zerbe has posted one of his works on ebay for the public to purchase.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Unique-Surreal-Artwork-So-Bored-of-Cowards_W0QQitemZ250281378982QQihZ015QQcategoryZ60437QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

check it out. (and possibly buy it?)

update on the mastercopy

did another layer on it. coming along well, can’t wait to finish it up this coming week =)

rembrandt mastercopy

learning how to oil paint. here’s some progess on a rembrandt mastercopy i’m working on.

middle stages of the painting:

quick update on where to walk around FF

heya, if anybody’s around in lancaster tonight on first friday, you should all check out the Kalargyros Gallery at 112 West Orange Street.

they’re hosting a group show for the month of august and I have four of my works in there.

we at twisted system, also have four new artists showing with us this month. so please come check out the twisted system gallery which will be showing at the jemison family chiro. office at 148 north prince street.

if anybody happens to see me walking around, say hi and i can point you towards another awesome three or four shows as well.

update on my art: i’m painting. in oil. alot. right now i’m working on a method for oils that takes alot of it’s techniques and thoughts from the old masters. i have five new works planned, and they should be done by october if everything goes well.

big things are going to happen. big things.

-evan

new painting. back to the dark stuff.

“I just paint how I feel…”

a good friend said that when i asked her how she paints. and when i can’t get something to work in art, i follow that.

a portrait was kicking my ass, and i decided to just go dark with it and see where it would take me. after looking at rembrant and nerdrum, i worked on a technique.

this painting is a process of all that, the first of many. (i hope to get five done for next month)

“the end as a start”

$300

new work. Oils.

so i went from drawing, to painting.

back in the old days, those were the steps to take.

you would lean to draw by drawing from still lives, and then by drawing sculpture, once you mastered tones, you could move onto drawing from a model. once you mastered drawing, you moved onto painting.

painting was often called “coloring” back in those times because that’s what it was.

an underpainting was done (look up underpainting and davinci), and once the tones where realized, the paint would be glazed on. from there they built up the paint and glazes. that’s how many famous works were created.

(that was all in very loose terms, and the most basic of explanations i could have offered… but whatever)

so i decided to do three paintings, all different techniques and learn a little.

the past few months have been all about drawing, and i’ve learned quite a bit, and i’ve improved tons.

so why not the same for painting?

the first one i did i began with a graphite drawing. i did a wash of color, and went on to built up the tones with white. i liked how it looked, so i left it. taught myself how to use a brush, and the value of white.

the 2nd one i got reff. online and photoshoped them together to create a picture, and i did a drawing based off of it. i decided to paint gas masks. i went about this in more of a sketchy study method of painting. i did the shadows first in blue, and i did glaze after glaze and used white to build up the highlights. taught myself color theory in paint, how to make things almost glow, glaze techniques, and surface importance.

the third painting i wanted to keep simple. i mixed surfaces to break out of a comfort zone, and i got thicker with the paint. i used more than just a few colors, layering them on eachother to create value. i learned alot about tools, color theory, surface, texture with oil paint, and scans of oil paintings.

i decided to do a forth painting, even though i had reached my goal of three.

it began as a portrait of a girls face i found online. the shadows and such where a challenge to me, just starting out. around this time “the Remberant Book” ( a huge book all about rembrant) showed up to my door. i was having tons of trouble with the painting, and decided to take a break. so after reading 80% of the thing, and staring at the pictures for hours, i decided to go back and take a look at a current artist who loves rembrant, Odd Nerdrum. i had chosen him to copy for a school project, and i didn’t really pull it off (myself, knowing nothing much about painting), but now i could better grasp the techniques and methods he used.

i love the way Nerdrum paints. it’s one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen. so i started to stare at his art. (as i feel everybody should.) Using what i gathered from both of these painters (rembrant and nerdrum), i fixed the portrait of the young girl. i changed it drasticly to have some fun with it, and that pushed me to create one of the more darker images of my lifetime thus far.

i have found a way of painting that really grabs me. everything about it makes sense to me, and i find each step fun. the best part of it all is, everything is only as good as the drawing beneath it. which means i must first create a crazy good drawing as a foundation. this can be simple linework, all the way to fully fleshed out tones that i glaze over.

i plan to do many more paintings this month… i hope to get atleast 5 new works done for next first friday, and a huge epic painting done for septembers first friday. so please, come check out my work. i’m proud to show off my journey.

this first friday, i’m taking two boards at the twisted system art gallery show in the chiro office on prince street in lancaster, Pa.

i’ll be showing nine works… four paintings (the ones described above, and shown), and five of my favorite drawings. it’s 3am, and we hang our work at 3pm. i have quite a day ahead of me.

happy 4th.

(prints of these can be made to order, email me at ekitson@gmail.com to buy one)

update, 4 days to go

figure i’d update whomever looks at this.

i’ll have at least  three new paintings done for first friday… and i’m working on a fourth. this means… i will have anywhere from 3-5 new works to show

little something to look at. playing around on the comp… kinda.