by Andy Dolphin | Jun 6, 2010 | caricature, digital art, sketch
And now for something completely different.I used to do a little bit of caricature during my time as a commercial illustrator but nothing too fancy. I haven’t done any for a very long time, until this week.Last night I tried doing a self-portrait caricature,...
by Andy Dolphin | Jun 3, 2010 | oil painting, sketch, sunset
I don’t usually do preliminary colour sketches. I either work directly on site or from pencil sketches done from digital photos.But I’m planning a large painting based on two paintings I did a couple of weeks ago near Princess Royal Harbour in Albany. The...
by Andy Dolphin | May 17, 2010 | issues, limited palette, oil painting, still life
Following the success of Red & Blue #1, I used the same props and 4-colour limited palette to do a second still life.Oddly, this one threw some unexpected challenges at me. I had essentially completed the painting but for some reason, I could not get the small...
by Andy Dolphin | May 14, 2010 | limited palette, oil painting, still life
After playing around with Photoshop and making a small still life digital painting of an apple last week, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and give real still life another go. It’s been a long time since I’ve done it.I had to search around for a...
by Andy Dolphin | May 9, 2010 | landscape, oil painting, plein air, seascape, sunset, weather
I left my “day job” early on Friday afternoon and set off to find something to paint. The heavy cloud cover we had earlier in the day had cleared leaving almost cloudless blue skies, no breeze and warm sunshine.I drove toward Albany’s Princess Royal...
