Monday, October 8, 2012

 
Here are the sketches I used for the painting, I usually just start quickly sketching with a subject matter in mind.  I am working on a sea bird series and had an idea to title a painting Beach Bums, so I wanted to give the birds some charactoristics of old men you see in the park. 
 
 
 
 


These are two close ups of a larger  painting, the painting is almost finished.


Finished painting 24x24










The Stalkers

Stage 3 - Here is the finished painting, once I started painting the birds I thought they looked like they were stalking and also a play on their long legs, so I titled the painting  The Stalkers.  18x24






Stage 2, I brought the sketches into my iPad and added some color etc, I will use this for a reference for the painting.

 
 


 
Stage 1 - Here are some sketches that I will use for the paintings.