Another Photoshop Painting

Campus Cash - Photoshop Painting

Here is another painting executed in Photoshop. I did the piece for a marketing poster for the Card Office at North Georgia College. I do like to paint in Photoshop. It's getting where more and more I use it to set up a painting.
It has been a so-so day today. It seems as if I'm stuck in quicksand and whatever I do makes no difference whatever. Oh, la la la.



Brad

Photoshop Sketch

I'm posting a quick sketch I did for a packaging proposal that I painted in Photoshop. I just wanted to point out that the model for the figure is myself. Also, the four figures that are in the last post are all me. It's good to have a good cheap and hard working model. Have a good start to the week. Jacqueline, if you stop by, check the comments I left for you on the last post, I kind of messed up the link and you might not have realized they were there.

Packaging Proposal - Photoshop Painting

Brad

A New Work

Funeral of a Friend - charcoal and gouache sketch - 8"x10"

It's been a while since I have posted anything so, I thought I would post a sketch that I have made for a new piece today just to keep my hand in. It is a one of a series that I am working on of this theme. I've been inspired by Martha Miller's work and am planning to produce this in charcoal and um-m-m acrylic on paper. In it I'm portraying some of my fascination with rootlessness, the 'On the Road' lifestyle, and the Hobo life. Prosaically, it's the burial of one of these wanderers in a junkyard (junkyards, something else I love). The graffiti graphic is a design that I am working on that I call Compass Rose. Have a good weekend.

Brad

Illustrator Work

Moon and Crows, Illustrator EPS, 8" x 10"

I have been working on my skills with Illustrator and Photoshop. Here is a rendition of a composition I produced in oil and charcoal.

Crows, Oil and Charcoal, 8" x 10"

Have an interesting week.

Brad

Thanksgiving Evening

The National Christmas Tree spent the Thanksgiving Holiday in downtown Dahlonega this Year, on the town square where local residents could go by and sign the banners and see a glimpse of the top of the tree. It was being shipped by a local trucking company was the main reason for this stop-over.

The National Tree on the Square

Signatures on the Banners

The Dahlonega Square, Thanksgiving Evening 2010

The Dahlonega Square, Thanksgiving Evening 2010

Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving.

Brad

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope for a happy Thanksgiving for all, whatever your situation, may you have a day of respite and reflection.

Jess and Mom, Charcoal on Paper, 8" x10"

Brad

New Tempera Painting

Here is a recent painting that I completed for an exhibition submission. It is tempera (poster paint) on a paper panel; paper on chipboard mounted on a luan panel. The painting turned out well but it really doesn't do anything for me, I just can't get excited about it. It's part of my attempt at a type of romanticism. This one with a more Southern flavor. The subject is a cotton mill, one of many that dot the South. From a photo, circa 1943, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later. The one on the right is my mom. Check the purse and shoes.

Black and white photo, c. 1943

Cotton Mill Girls, Tempera on Panel, 18" x 24"

I always like the architecture of the old mills, the rows of windows. There were always plenty of railroad tracks around and I remember when I was a young child, not the old child I am now, the steam locomotives switching cars around the mill.

Thanks for stopping by.

Brad