Painted from photo (2013)

The original photo was taken by Ian Cameron, he takes wonderful pictures, I actually had two of his photos as options, but teacher and I came to a conclusion this had more challenge over bluescale winter picture. This was hard as hell and believe me, looks better from afar and without the model image. Acrylics on watercolor paper.

TP: Beach painting (2010)

I had a model for this, maybe it was a stock photo from Shutterstock or something, but I had fun doing this. It's rather tiny too. I painted the linen colored paint frame white with the acrylics and then, after it dried, started to paint the actual beach.

TP: Sunset (2009)

One of my best clients gave me a postcard to enlarge with gouache paints, I came up with this. This was actually modified after taking the picture, she didn't like the gold highlights, so I had to cover them off.

Traditional Painting: Beach sunset (2009)

Had a model with this, but damn isn't this one of my best gouache paintings of that time. I like the colors and the palm leaves were really fun to do. Highlights on the water are done with colored pencils.