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Inspiration Friday
Marie & the Peach Rose
Hey Friends!
Happy inspiration Friday! We finally made it through another week! … A freezing week, i might add. This week’s inspiration Friday vibe is a sort of Romantic journey, where time seems to stand still as you’re walking in and out of universes playing hide and seek! I hope it inspires you today ;)
On a different note, I decided to continue painting the 4′ by 3′ oil painting i’m working on all on Ustream. So i will try to each week paint the different layers for you. But i saw a lot of you had trouble because of the time difference watching it. Is there a good time for me to do the next one? I’m thinking of doing it this coming up Monday (December 12), at either 10am or 2pm PST and i would paint for 3 or 4 hours.
(Images by Pierre Joseph Redoute. The rest of the images i don’t know who did them but if you do i would love to know! :)
Models
Claudia Devlin
Hi everyone! Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in yesterday to watch the live stream of me painting! It was really fun for me to share that with you and I hope you all enjoyed it. :) If you missed it, I’m thinking of continuing to stream the progress of that painting as I go along with it. It sounded like some of you weren’t able to view it because of the time of day. Any suggestions on when I stream the next bit? Just let me know. So the drawing today is of Claudia Devlin. I first saw a picture of her on Tumblr and really loved it! This painting drawing is inspired by a picture of her I found on Premier Model Management’s website. When I first found it I really thought she had a great look and thought I would do a quick sketch of it. I hope you like it! :)
Drawing Process
Live Painting from Today
Thanks to everyone for tuning in! We hope you enjoyed the live painting! Here is how it turned out so far. We hope you like it!
Portrait
Satoru Sugimoto
Hey Friends, sorry i wasn’t able to get the ustream up today.
The initial sketch on the wood took way longer than i thought it would.
So i guess we will have to do it tomorrow (Tuesday, December 6th) at 2 p.m. PST. ;)
The portrait today is of my good friend, Satoru Sugimoto.
Satoru was the man who put our trip to Tokyo together.
He was seriously one of the biggest highlights of the trip for us.
Such a fun and kind person. I did this portrait of him right after our trip. i thought you would like it. :)
Hope you’re having a great night, and see you tomorrow.
Got to do some baking tonight ;)
Drawing Process
Very Rough Draft for Tomorrow
Hello Friends, How was your weekend? Mine was wonderful. We basically hung out all weekend watching the first Season of the TV show, Fringe. I forgot how good that season was. Well, the sketch today is a super duper rough draft sketch i did for an oil painting i want to start tomorrow. The sketch is inspired by Andreas Öhlund’s photo of Mona Johannesson and Bo Deveilus for Stockholm S/S/A/W. I was thinking of possibly Live Ustreaming me painting tomorrow. I’m not sure if it would be too boring for yawl. hah. Let me know if it is something you would like, cause I will need to pick up my studio for it. It’s a complete mess right now! Well, I hope you’re having a great night. :)
Inspiration Friday
Traveling through the Mushroom Trees
Happy Inspiration Friday!
How was your week? I don’t know if i am the only person who feels like this, but did this week feel really long? I’m so tired today. I feel like i have been moving in slow motion. On a positive note, I finally got an Inspiration Friday post up. I just realized how long since i posted an inspiration Friday post. i planned the next four weeks of Inspiration Friday posts. It basically took me all day to lay them out, but I really like how they turned out. I hope you like the pictures. :)
Well, I got to get going, cause i completely forgot to order the pizza!
I hope you’re having a great day.
(Pictures by Steven Klein, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, and i’m not sure who took the other two pictures.)
Models
Blinded by the Glow – Natalia Vodianova
Hey Friends,
Well been working night and day trying to finish a side project. To be in the right mood for the project, I have been listening to different composers and symphonies. After two days of that, tonight I decided I needed a big change of pace. So needless to say, I have Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” stuck in my head now. Oh well. Haha I had started this painting a few weeks ago but i actually think the party feel of “Last Friday Night” really came through in the brighter colors of the painting. Haha! The painting seriously didn’t come together until the last minute, and I’m not sure what it is about this one, but I think I like it. I love painting Natalia Vodianova. She is really amazing. Well, i hope you’re having a great night. :) P.S. I’m finally on Instagram! My name on there is “dannyroberts” :)
Travel Drawing
A Drawing in the Dark
Hi everyone!
So we have been super busy, but I’m glad I can get some drawings up.
This one I did on the plane in almost complete darkness on the flight to Tokyo. Haha It was kind of crazy, but I really like the style of it. What do you think? I hope you are all having a great week! :)
Blue Eyes
Sketches From Tokyo Pt. 1
Hey Friends, how was your weekend? I was cleaning up my room and i found the sketchbook i took with me to Tokyo. I had completely forgotten i had done a handful of sketches while on the flight. Above are a few of them. On the left hand side is a quick contour sketch of my brother on the flight and on the right side, a study sketch of a human eye. Really hope you like it. Also i saw that some of you were a little frustrated by the lack of posting of drawings. Lately i’ve had to finish up some personal things, but i’m hoping to get back drawing this week. So please don’t give up on me ;)
Reflection
Reflections of Araisara
Hey friends, thanks for the feedback on the prints. I’m really glad you like them. :) I know i have already posted about the Araisara show from Tokyo Fashion Week, but there were a handful of photos i took off the reflections of the floor. Our new friend Hiro is a genius and did the Show production. The floor looked just like water and made beautiful abstract forms. I really like how the photos turned out. What do you think?
