Gallery of Art Work
Discover Your Personal Art Style Why Are You An Artist Anyway? photo by Jason Frinchaboy I am an artist because I have an inherit need to express something creatively. I have an extremely strong impulse to create, and it's not rewarding to me unless what I create excites me. I guess that all artists [...]
How To Paint Dynamic Hands With The Structural Method Painting a realistic hand is made easy by understanding the basic structure of the hand's anatomy and rhythms of hand operation. Don't worry - this is not going to be a lesson in Metacarpophalangeal Joints and Lumbrical Muscles. I don't really know what those are and [...]
Self Portrait of an Artist - How To Paint A Portrait by Matt Abraxas In the final video for creating my yearly self portrait, I bring you along on a time-lapse demo to show you how to paint a portrait. I paint my self portraits each year around my birthday which is on March 25th. [...]
Solve Problems Early With Study Sketches Before Your Final Painting! Painting should be fun, but when it starts looking bad, the joy rapidly dwindles. What if with a little preliminary work, you can ensure a more enjoyable process and a better piece of art? This post is a continuation on the process of creating a [...]
Starting A Self Portrait With The Composition Study Continuing from my post earlier this week about creating my yearly self portrait and in time for Jerry's Artarama Self Portrait Contest, I am beginning the process with a composition study sketch. To read the previous post explaining the process of creating the general concept of the [...]
My Recent Video Tweeted By Jerry's Artarama I forgot to embed this in my last blog post concerning starting a self portrait. The next stage of the video will be up tomorrow where I actually create the Composition Study. And then over the weekend, I'll have the Color Sketches of the Self Portrait posted. Keep [...]
Painting A Self Portrait and Jerry's Artarama Contest Follow Along With Me In Creating A Self Portrait Over The Next Few Weeks Self Portrait Study 2012 Every year at around my birthday in March, I paint a self portrait. I've been doing for a long time as an exercise to see the progress [...]
30 Minute Painted Quick Sketch Improving How You See in 30 Minutes The Video for the Painted Quick Sketch is Below A common problem in painting is in understanding color. There are countless colors in paints, but no matter how many we use, we often still create a flat, convoluted mess. Paintings often lack [...]
How to Draw and Paint - Seeing as an Artist Learning to draw and paint begins with copying simple easy-to-follow art lessons, but when you find yourself wondering how to draw realistic people or paint a landscape as beautifully as you envision it, then you have to go beyond the basic step by step drawing [...]
Painting from a Snapshot Photograph At SmithKlein Gallery in Boulder, CO., last month, I painted a demonstration of how I sometimes work directly from a single photo. Before anything else, I do want to stress the importance of working from life as much as possible. In order to understand tonal value (the graduating differences from [...]
Painting Several Characters Using One Model In the 2 part video below, I show you how I used myself as a model for an illustration involving 4 adults. This can be very useful for illustrators on a tight budget and deadline, or for anyone who is having difficulty arranging other people to pose. An important [...]
Holiday Group Art Show I have several small pieces (landscapes and figure studies) in the Holiday Art Show at the Art Underground, joined with other great, local artists: Chris Cain, Julie Barbera, Gia Hamilton, Tom Konchar, Megan Morgan and Michael Ohnmacht Friday, Dec. 6th, 5 - 10PM Saturday, Dec. 7th, 12 - 8PM Sunday, [...]
Commemorating the 407th birth anniversary of one of the greatest painters of all time, Google has altered logo yet again to involve the portrait of the celebrated Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. Happy Birthday Rembrandt Rembrandt is most known for his self portraits. He began his career with portrait painting and only about 10% of these [...]
Painting A Face Quickly for Illustration Work Face Painted in Profile for a book by Simonetta Carr about John Knox. In this quick tutorial, I speed up the process from 25 minutes to about 10 minutes showing the steps I take to quickly paint a side-view portrait. Simonetta Carr writes books on Christian biographies. This [...]
El Duende, Oil on Linen - by Matt Abraxas El Duende is a beautiful word. It comes from Latin mythology, originally referring to a fairy or goblin creature, but when referred to the arts, it refers to Soul. To say Soul, however, doesn't encapsulate the full depth that El Duende expresses. Language is a funny [...]
