BlogHide Reblurtsiansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 3 min readMaggie and Florence - Oil Painting with Shared ProcessMaggie and Florence Commissioned oil-on-canvas painting 16"x 24" Hi all, today I would like to share a commissioned oil painting I completed as gift for my auntie's 60th birthday. The painting shows her with her dog called Florence. Florence comes from a rare breed called Saluki developed from sighthounds. They were referred to as the Royal…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readMother & Daughter - Acrylic PaintingMother and daughter 19cm x 24cm Acylic on paper iansart This is an acrylic study based on an ornament/sculpture I found in my house. I wanted to express the feelings the mother had while also accurately depicting the form of the model. Completed over several hours with rose madder red, ultramarine blue, cadium yellow, burnt umber, black and…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting a Fruit Bowl Still Life - With Process!Hi all, today I am sharing with you a recent still life of various fruits. After having practiced painting from life individual fruits I have combined them all into a still life composition done on canvas with acrylics. I learned a lot from this process as it was more challenging than previous exercises I had done. The process is shown…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting Shoes from Life! - with process photosHi all, sharing with you today a still life study of shoes and the process that went into creating it. I was inspired by the artists in the past such as Van Gogh who did the same thing and thought it would be a good exercise to further practice my painting from life skills. I went after an impressionistic style where I focused on loose brush…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting from life a Glass of Water! - with process photosHi all, sharing with today an acrylic painting of a glass filled with water painted from life. This exercise proved to be very challenging as water is transparent you have to paint what you see through it and not what colour you think it should be. Capturing the effect of water therefore comes highlightig the distortion of shapes and colours when…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting from life Grapes! - with process photosHi all, sharing with you a recent painting from life study of grapes. This was an interesting exercise in capturing the reflections of the light source on the different grapes. Although they all look similar they all have variations in purples, reds, oranges or even greys depending on where the light reached and also made it important in…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting from life an Orange! - with process photosHi all, today I am sharing another study done from life of an orange. I made sure to use a lamp as a close light source as the effect of light can greatly determine a good or bad painting. It is important to have enough contrast between lights and darks. Painting from life really focuses you to look clearly at an object with all your senses more…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting from life tomatoes! - with process photosHi all, sharing with you some quick painting from life studies of tomatoes! I find painting things that can grow or decay over time produce a painting with a lot more character than painting from a plastic object that looks like a tomato. One of the main challenges for this piece was capturing the watery effect with paints, it required the…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readPainting from life an apple! - with process photosHi all, sharing with you all a quick life study of an apple and its process done with acrylics. I have recently been painting more from life as I believe you can achieve greater expression of the painting experience than from painting from an image. It really forces you to look and observe the form and values that can change with the environment…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readRembrandt Oil Painting Self Portrait With Process!Hi all! Today I would like to share my portrait painting of the master artist Rembrandt and the process that went into creating it. I find his paintings very expressive, sensitive and done with master technique so I wanted to see what I could learn by recreating one of them. I find the impasto technique where you apply the paint thickly to…iansart in # blurtart • 5 yr. ago • 1 min readDrawing Beth Harmon from the Queen's Gambit + Process!Hi everyone, sharing with you today a recent drawing of Beth Harmon from The Queen's Gambit on Netflix and the process that went into creating it. I very much enjoyed this mini-series and would encourage anyone who has not seen it yet to do so even if you're not that into chess. The drawing was done with a mechanical pencil on A5 paper.…iansart in # blurt365 • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readBitcoin Hits ATH $19,829 and Sharing a Recent Pen Drawing!Its good to see bitcoin has just hit a new all time high of $19,829 (coindesk price) from the previous record set in December 2017 . After 3 years of waiting lets hope altcoins now start to get some attention that they have long deserved. Today I would like to share with you a recent pen drawing I completed of an old man praying and the process…iansart in # blurtart • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readDeep Sadness... - Old Man Pen Portrait drawingHello everyone, I have been busy lately with work but will try and draw more often even if it's just a little everyday. I recently completed this pen portrait drawing of an old man. I wanted to capture the deep sadness in his eyes and I find some of the best portrait pieces tell a story through the eyes and nothing else is needed. This old man…iansart in # blurtart • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readAfghan Girl - Digital Painting Time LapseHello everyone, today I would like to share a digital painting of Sharbat Gula from the famous photo 'Afghan Girl' that I used as reference. Below I will share the process with images and a timelapse video at the end. I begin with a quick sketch and fill in the basic tones of the piece. This is just about filling with colours and accuracy…iansart in # blurtart • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readUnder Water Ship Wreck - Speed Painting Time-lapseHi everyone in the blurt community! I have been busy with university work these last few weeks but have managed to find time to create this concept painting, which I will now share it's creation process with you. Under Water Ship Wreck Step 1 I first begin with the blue background with a gradient from light to dark to show the…iansart in # blurtart • 6 yr. ago • 3 min readElectro - Character Concept ArtworkHi everyone, sharing with you today my concept character art piece & process for the splinterlands week 105 competition. I call this character electro because as you can clearly see he can harness the power of electricity on his victims. I was after a simplistic cartoon style as the competition states it must be in the style of splinter lands…iansart in # blurtart • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readLord of the Rings - Aragorn Charging into Battle Speed Painting Time LapseHello everyone, today I would like to share my process in creating a digital painting of Aragorn from Lord of the Rings charging into battle. This piece was done over several hours on GIMP using a wacom graphics tablet and there is a timelapse video at the end of the whole process. Step 1 I create the background using a few of the general…iansart in # introduceyourself • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readIntroduction Post and Sharing a Quirky Troll Digital Piece!Hi blurt community, I have been part of the steem and hive community known as @iansart and I'm curious to learn more about this one. I will share some of my artwork here with this community too and also curate posts that I like as I would like all platforms to be a success in future. I will share one of my recent works that I have also shared…
