Bay with boats WIP
For more of this work in progress please visit my demo page at www.artbymariodonk.com/demo4.html
Bay with boat WIP
For more of this work in progress please visit my demo page at “http://www.artbymariodonk.com/demo4.html”
Bay with boat WIP
For more of this work in progress please visit my demo page at “www.artbymariodonk.com/demo4.html”":...
Anarchy in Blue. WIP
15th Dec update, the painting is completed
This work is a 30 by 30 by 1.5 inch canvas.
Charcoal sketch. 
The underpainting as seen here is in progress and is painted in egg tempera. still some more to paint on the ship, Then I switch to oil paint and start adding colour.
Added some colour and will be adding to that as I go, its pretty well going to plan.
Now going to work on the island, then back to…
Tree-wip
Here is a painting in progress again using under-painting to advantage to show just how fast it is not to mention richness in layers and texture.
This is just a rough idea and is approximately used on the canvas, I say approximate as it needs to work on the canvas, not the drawing paper.
A canvas that has been sealed with rabbit skin glue, very thin, its meant to size it not paint on it, next a cha…
camel wip cont...
Now doing some modeling in the shadow areas on the body with a soft round pointed brush in dark blue. Note the cast shadow of the tail on the leg is strong but the self shadowing of the left leg is softer, cast shadows always seem harder and sharper, distance can make it otherwise.
Now to not mess with it then latter come into the dark with a solid lighter body color. Note I am making it easy for…
Camel wip
This is a humorous interpretation of the thoughts of a camel as it see’s an approaching sand storm.
What else can one say, the image says it all, drawing is in charcoal and I went straight into laying color areas, normally I would under paint but this is fairly basic so should develop fine by going straight into it.
Come back and see how its progressing.
Part 2
Now on hind sight it would have …
Tug wip part 2
And a test render of the under water screw, trying different ways to get the item to look like it has water on it.
some deck detail so far
Tug boat in progress
Just a preview of my tug boat in progress, I may be adding views, or it may just appear as finished art, its progressed well past this image now but it gives you an idea of whats coming.
Stages to a finished work called Infinity.
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My latest in progress. 91 cm by 61 cm oil on canvas. That’s not strictly true as the under painting is in egg tempera. Please ignore the flash hot spot in the middle as these are only previews. I normally start with a sketch on paper. But in this case I trashe…