cafe and desk cake studies 🍰 2022

Summer studies over a coffee

2019 and more observation paintings

Pears!

Studies painted at my desk, first under diffused light and then I changed it to direct. The change in saturation is remarkable!

Winter Cafe Sunshine

Mandarin Lighting Change

Mandarins painted under diffused lighting first, and then the challenge of direct light. And as always, comparing my values.

     

Little Mermaid Film Studies

Little Mermaid colour studies painted during #mermay ! The artist who designed the lighting in this scene did an amazing job and I love the extremes

Cookies & Tropical Drink Studies

Studying the powerful purple

Final painting and my lasso block in phase focusing on local colour!

Blue colour study and observing Tulips

Cafe observation studies

Painted on the iPad with Brushes App.

  

Green and Red Colour Studies!

something a little yellow

Observing the colour yellow, block in lasso process & final paint.
 

Summer Fruits!

Summer fruits are my favourite and in season on my desk!

2017 the observing continues!

Christmas setup at my desk! pretty much what my christmas tree looked like!

Painted the sweetest thing!

Yummy Nectarine Study

Looking at my nectarine snack on my desk yesterday afternoon, I just had to quickly paint a lighting study of it before I ate all!

3 Little pig character design update

Learning so much about character design the last month I decided to update the 3 little Pigs and push them further. More moment paintings to come with this update too!

Designing Monsters is fun!

Taking my first Character Design Class at CGMA, Character Design for Animation with Nate Wragg and loving it! Here are some fun monsters from week 1.

Sunset Boulevard Colour Script

What a year of learning! 2014 has been amazing with so many assignments and working on my fundamentals, I can not wait to share everything I have learnt!

At the start of this year I studied once again under the guidance of Chris Oatley at the Oatley Academy and kicked the year off with a bang! Focusing on learning everything I could about colour, the class was simply amazing. It opened my eyes on how much you can achieve with a limited palette, support from a mentor and amazing group of very talented students. Chris set the challenge to create a colour script for a black and white film to apply all the principles of the course. I was given the film noir classic, Sunset Boulevard. I had never seen the film before and loved it! It also started my new addiction to watching black and white classics to learn about compositions and clever use of limited values.

This colour script has evolved throughout 2014, returning to the piece again and again, to apply new knowledge and adding more colour keys from my collection of screen caps.

Hope you like my interpretation of the classic. I have included my favourite 4 colour keys. If you would like to see any of the other keys bigger please just post a comment to this post.

If you want to learn anymore info about the Oatley Academy here is a link to Chris's site http://chrisoatley.com/ 

Sunset Boulevard © Paramount Pictures