Eddie Vedder - 2006 tour

Jack_C_Gregory
Jack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
edited November 2007 in The Art Wall
hi, hi, hi there...

I finished this up not too long ago. I can't really take any great credit for the composition considering I just grabbed an image from the tour section to use as reference. I grabbed this one in particular because of the contrast between the sharp focal points of the face and the blurred foreground of Eddie's hand and guitar neck. This was basically a practice piece for myself to work on painting blurred objects. The medium is oils and gouache on masonite board.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/jack82/Vedder.jpg
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  • einatshaul
    einatshaul Posts: 2,219
    Wow, the hair is amazing! How did you get that texture, it looks real
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  • hard_sun
    hard_sun Posts: 381
    man...the picture is awesome...
    i agree with einatshaul...the hair is amazing...
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,578
    INCREDIBLE!!!

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  • Jack_C_Gregory
    Jack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    einatshaul wrote:
    Wow, the hair is amazing! How did you get that texture, it looks real


    For hair I usually block in the colors real quick with oil paints. I usually don't go for any detail at the begininng, it's more about blocking in the colors and creating a little value. Then what I do (and this is why I love oils) is I take a clean fan brush and run it over all the area with hair. Since the oils haven't dried yet, the colors run and a smooth transaction of the values is created as a result of the fan brush blending everything together. Then I'll go work on another section to let the hair dry a bit. After the hair is a little more dry, I start putting the details in with gouache paints.
  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    Wow! That is amazing. :):):)
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    that is great!
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    That's awesome. :)
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  • DELETED
    DELETED Posts: 421
    The expression and the emotion in his face is captured really well!
  • DELETED
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    Also wanted to ask.. how long did the painting take you to do? :)
  • Jack_C_Gregory
    Jack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    *TheirInvisibleCrown wrote:
    Also wanted to ask.. how long did the painting take you to do? :)


    I'm not absolutely sure to be honest with you. I probably got in a good 2 hours everyday after work... probably somewhere between 24 and 30 hours total.

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