JLW ART

2009-11-10T11:07:00.000-08:00

Two paintings done at UT campus. I've been working on edges with these ones.

2009-11-01T18:48:00.000-08:00

2009-10-30T15:46:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick Dune Concept I've done this week. I want to thank everyone who has provided me with feedback and critique. It really helped!

Bellow is the image before being critiqued. The main issues were readability. The revised concept does a better job at separating the foreground ship from the midground worm in tonality and color temperature. Also, the random grouping of teeth is more pleasant on the eye. Oh, and it had way too much texture to be humanly enjoyable... lol.

A big thank you to Ryan Wood, Tom Scholes, Shawn Melchor, Aj Trahan and Daniel Chou for their feedback and critiques.

2009-10-30T00:14:00.000-07:00

This Painting is an experiment in the Alla Prima technique; direct painting. This consist of laying down a color from the start and making every stroke count as if it was final... well, ideally, that is. With this technique, the second pass is all about drawing and blocking in shadow shapes followed by paint buildup until finished. Often this technique will appear as if the painter starts in the focal area and works his/her way outward until the message is communicated; sometimes leaving the background half finished.

The Painting bellow is somewhat of an experiment with chiaroscuro with a limited color palette. This process starts with a good tonal study followed with the application of color as a second pass. This technique is a bit more forgiving as it allows you to see the entire picture early on. Note: with this technique, it's important to make the tonal very thin in order for the color layer to work well and to avoid mudying colors. Another note would be to avoid using thinner in the initial tonal; rather use something dry like a cloth or a dry brush or even a Q-tip.

2009-10-25T23:09:00.000-07:00

Painting at Mt.Bunnel. This painting was painted extremely quickly almost in an Impressionist fashion as I had very little time; two or three hours. The gesture was made quickly and was just informative enough to have a rough idea of major mass placements. Then, blocking in of rough colors; each major shapes with two tones, a light and a dark. Then, just building up subtleties and tonal contrast.

2009-10-20T23:25:00.000-07:00

A portrait of our friend Sam. Thank you for posing.

2009-10-20T08:13:00.000-07:00

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2009-10-14T23:41:00.000-07:00

2009-10-14T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a work in progress painting of medieval spawn I'm currently working on. I haven't posted 'finished' images in a long time now because I've been so focussed on learning light and color through traditional painting and studies. But this will all help when I start doing more finished artwork.

The process of this painting is currently viewable on Ustream. I'm planning to take all the videos and combine them into an accelerated video with commentary over it. That'll be my first stab at doing a 'tutorial' type video. Hopefully, it can be helpful for other artists or students.

The videos can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2344008

2009-10-12T17:15:00.000-07:00

Here is a time lapse video of me drawing Mickey for Game Informer!

http://gameinformer.com/games/disney_epic_mickey/m/disney_epic_mickey_media/24611.aspx

2009-10-05T09:20:00.000-07:00

Finally, our cover was announced today on the GameInformer website!!!!

This Cover was done by me, AJ Trahan and Matt Hall. Further details on process will be posted later on.

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/10/05/spoiler-alert-epic-november-issue-revealed.aspx

http://gameinformer.com/mag/mickey.aspx

2009-10-04T15:27:00.000-07:00

Painting at the wildflower center. So two hours and twelve mosquito bites later, here's my painting! lol

2009-09-28T23:14:00.000-07:00

This is the painting from the sunday modeling session at our mini studio. Jennifer is an excellent model. Bellow is a drawing by Todd Harris done on a very stubborn textured paper. Thank you to those who attended, it was fun! There will definitely be future portrait sessions.

2009-09-28T23:11:00.000-07:00

2009-09-28T23:08:00.000-07:00

This was an exercise I tried painting almost exclusively with the palette knife.

2009-09-23T00:27:00.000-07:00

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2009-09-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

So Tomorrow is the sketchcrawl day, it's an international event that's free where a bunch of people in every city gets together and sketches their city, people, or from imagination. It can be anything from drawing, painting, digital, whatever. And you get to post it on their website if you want afterwards.

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/

So for us in Austin, Tiffany suggested we go to the Austin Nature and Science Center. So let's all meet there around 1pm.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/ansc/default.htm

This event can be as long or short as you want it. You can get there earlier or later in the day if you want. I'm guessing that some of us will be sketching and painting till the sun sets.

Also, as a side note, some of us will be attending the 3hour portrait session at the hancock center tomorrow morning from 9am to noon. It's 5$.

Jordan Lamarre-Wan

' 512.350.9495 | : jordanworks@hotmail.com|

Website: gofortea.blogspot.com

2009-09-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

I found a new artist I wanted to share with you. His name is Pino and his book can be found on budplant: http://budsartbooks.com/prod.cfm/pc/PNOH/cid/14

2009-09-07T18:17:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-27T13:42:00.000-07:00

Check out Nicolai Fechin. He's a really talented artist.

http://www.fechin.com/publications/nicolaifechin.htm