Collaboration 4

I got to add a bit more to the Tom Buzbee collabo painting last year but haven't gotten any more done. Hopefully I'll jump back in it soon! This is only a small section; oil on a very big canvas (I believe 5'x7').

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Collaboration 3

More progress in the collaboration painting with Tom! He painted a crinkled paper texture on the top right corner in blue while I added flat red violet squares on the bottom left (click on the photos for a closer look):

Detail of Tom's work:

Detail of my work:

Here are pictures of the set up that Tom made to reference for textures:

Keep watching for more progress!

This is a continuation of the collaboration painting between Tom Buzbee and I. To check out the first 2 posts, click here:

http://hugogiraud.blogspot.com/2012/06/collaboration.html

http://hugogiraud.blogspot.com/2012/07/collaboration-2.html

Collaboration 2

Tom added green, blue, & bluegreen glazes in oil to the background. Now we have to stick to painting in oils, no more acrylic! He set up an area with paper & fabric textures to look and borrow for the painting. The placement of those textures on this background will be up to us. Keep watching for more progress!

This is a continuation of the collaboration painting between Tom Buzbee and I. To check out the 1st post, click here:

http://hugogiraud.blogspot.com/2012/06/collaboration.html

Analog Artist Digital World

Gotta mention that my good friend Tom Buzbee and I got a mention on the talented Tom Thorspecken's Analog Artist Digital World blog! It's a great art and local Orlando event blog, highly recommended! Thorspecken is an Orlando event reporter except instead of taking pictures, he sketches the event (or part of it) in watercolor. A different perspective! He was a clean-up artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida and now teaches in the 2D Animation class at Full Sail University's Computer Animation department. I worked at Disney Florida on "Brother Bear" and although we never worked together, I hold Thor in the highest respect for working at the studio. Personally, it's great to see artists from the animation studio make art around Orlando.


Check out Thor's post and sketch here and follow him: http://www.analogartistdigitalworld.com/2012/06/first-thursdays.html

Collaboration

I've started a big painting (5'x7') collaboration with our school's Resident Artist and my friend, the amazingly talented Tom Buzbee! Click on his name to see more of his work and you will see why I am super excited about it! The man is not only a fantastic fine artist who's found his own voice but as an illustrator, I respect him highly for working in places like NASA and Disney's EPCOT. And I always was a bit jealous that my friends McArthur Albert and George Frei got to do painting with him so I'm really glad I finally get to do one!


I will try to post progress photos of the painting here on the blog as we go along. After stretching & double priming the big canvas, here's our 1st step: covering the background in expressive washes of black acrylic paint. The rectangles you might see in it are pieces of paper towels that we threw on it to soak some of the paint out. They left some of the pattern & shapes from the paper towels and we also threw them back at the painting to build more textures. Click on the photo for a closer look: