Color studies

I just picked up a Wacom tablet this week. A couple of the other artists at Skin Abrasions have been messing around with them so I thought I'd try it out as well. It's an interesting tool to play with, my results with it so far have been mixed between acceptable and mediocre,so obviously there's a learning curve. But I have a few pieces that I posted last week colored in with it so I'm going to post them for your viewing pleasure.
This little guy came out all right, but I'm having a hard time getting rid of that airbrushed look. On top of learning the subtleties of the tablet, I'm having to get better at photoshop and corel painter as well


This next one turned out better and was much quicker. Definitely makes a quick color study easier to do


For this one I took a sketch, repeated it and stretched it to fit on an arm. I want to play around with this sort of thing more because of how helpful it was in laying the design out on the body.


Ok, hopefull ymore to come this week if I have time. I'm going to Orlando on Friday morning for the Immersed in Ink tattoo convention, so things might be a little hectic. As always, thanks for looking.

Sketches

Here's some more biomech ideas I put together for this week. Primarily sleeve ideas. I'm going to try to come up with a bunch of smaller pieces that can be done in one session in the next week or so. We'll see how it works out, usually I don't think biomech looks very interesting unless it's done on a large scale. But I want to have some sketches ready to do at some upcoming tattoo conventions. Anyways, here's this weeks drawings.

Paintings in the works

Since the main purpose of this blog is to show the progression of my art, I thought I'd show some recent paintings in various stages. I just finished a class at Vitruvian Studios on the Dead Palette, so these are all based off of that with some minor additions. I took the photos fairly quickly tonight, as most of these are unfinished and will need to be photographed again later. So try to excuse the blurryness.

I'll start from least finished. This is a smaller piece, 5 by 5. I've got two quick sessions on it, it's got another one or two to go.

Next is a slightly larger piece, 6 by 6. It's two longer sessions in, and has another one or two to go, but I'd say is looking close to finished.

Third is a piece I've been working on for a couple months on and off. It's a bit larger so it's taking some time. I'm nearing the end but there's still quite a bit of fine tuning to do. I've been experimenting with some glazing techniques as well with this one, although it doesn't show so well in the photo.

and finally, this is the painting that was done in the class. I'll get better photos once I have a varnish on it and a proper photo setup, But I wanted to something finished in this post.


As always, thanks for looking!

Some tattoos I'd like to do

In an effort to build my clientele in Chicago, and to push my tattoo vision, I've drawn up a few pieces that I would like to tattoo and am willing to do for next to nothing. I do have some specifications for whom I'll be accepting for this offer. Mainly, you must live in the Chicago area, and be able to explain why you'd be an ideal candidate to help promote me. Shoot me an email on here or at my website www.giffordkasen.com if you're interested and we can go from there. This will be for a limited time only and on a first come first serve basis. The colored pictures are also for sale in case you're interested in them but not sure you want to wear them for the rest of your life. They're 5 by 7 inches, pencil and marker on bristol board.


first is a flower biomech piece, it has more of an organic feel to it. I've included the original sketch so you can see the process in developing the idea


Next is a golden orb cradeled in some organic textures. Once again I've included the original sketch


lastly I have so more sketches that haven't been rendered in color yet, but are still up for grabs.



once again thanks for looking, and I hope to have some tattoo photos of these to show you all soon.