TAD RVA: oil

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Cast Painting

Oil on canvas panel. Painting of a photo of a cast for Head Painting with Vanessa Lemen!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Another semester of TAD down, two more to go. This past semester was definitely really hard, and very focused on oil painting. I really need to update my blog on a regular basis to avoid large art dumps. For this post, they are all oil paintings!

The first one is a plein air, the second is a pear study painted with the help of Josh George, the third is my final for still life painting, and it's my biggest painting yet although I cannot remember the size at the moment, the fourth is an hour long quick painting of sardines under a light (so the smell will make you paint faster), the fifth is a figure painting using the Zorn palette, the sixth is a painting of a sculpture that Jon Foster made, and the seventh is a figure painting of my good friend Kaitlin Demayo in her Hans Solo costume.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Oil Painting and Master Copies

Wow, I haven't posted anything here in a while! I've been busy, but that's not an excuse!!

I changed my blog's name from "hodgeepodgee.blogspot.com" to "juliahodgesillustration.blogspot.com". I also got a tumblr, but I have yet to figure it out. It's at "juliahodgesillustration.tumblr.com".

I've decided that I'm going to post more of what I do, not just stuff I'm proud of. I've had a ton of failures, but those failures are very important to me and I learn a lot more from them than my successes. It's also an effort to be more transparent.

In the Fine Art and Illustration branches of TAD, the students have done a lot of master copies. I copied these from copies that I got printed to size (makes everything so much easier, copying from a small screen to a large painting just doesn't translate for me), and then looking at the computer copy to get what I couldn't get from the print, mostly the colors.