**2022-12-05 Made some updates, larger parts with compression bolts to keep layers compressed.
Now that I’m painting again with shaking hands and unbalanced sitting and standing. I realized I needed an Easel that can…
• Have a fixed but easily moved bar over the painting that I can rest my hands on without touching the wet painting.
• Also need an Easel that could hold me up or support my weight when I lose balance or need support to stay up.
• A shelf under paintings for stuff.
• A flexible stand on the left for reference or tablets/screens. (Right now thinking of just using a monitor arm for this)
• On the right side 2 glass pallets, A long strip on top for raw out-of-the-tube paint with tubes stacked above 300mm x 100mm. Then below this a 2nd glass pallet for mixing and using 300mm x 300mm or larger.
• Hacking up 2 cool/warm adjustable LED lights to attach to the top of the frame with their adjustable arms. The one on the left has a magnifying lens with it so I can see details of the reference materials. The 2nd one will be over the mixing pallets.
• Adjustable angle for canvas mount, which can be vertical or facing up or down.
• Able to rotate painting as I’m painting to get different angles while painting, (upside down, on the side, etc..)
So its been since 1990’s that I touched Oil Paints. Tried some abstract paintings that confirmed what I knew, I’m a realistic artist, So I have been starting back up and working on Portraits.
Did some color studies 1st, then some eyes, then my 1st ever Oil Portrait. More on the way….
Awhile back my LEGO PC died and left me no way to make new renders. Then I came across a really cheap ProLiant ML380 with 2 beefy processors, only 4gb mem, but for my render creations CPU power is what I needed.
Below gallery is Studies with previous models used to create the prints “Overture” and “Through”
I have some new, just need to name them and post.
Enjoy!
Last Christmas My mother gave me a big flat box that had been tucked away and forgotten. Surprisingly only a few items show any wear or damage from attic storage.
It’s only taken me a year to post them.
I started making cropped images of some of my artwork. What that means is I found “new” artwork from within the full sizes of my artwork. Pixel for pixel, unedited, not resized, no loss.
So I have been Collecting rocks over the years to have small Rock Balancing items.
Used Sketchup to make some videos of my designs and made some stop motions of my artwork.
I have linked the pages that have videos now and listed all videos in this post.
