Orange Flowers

Here's a super old painting I did last winter when I was feeling a little angsty. I just pulled out my paper, squirted paints straight from the tube on to it and went at it with my brush and hands. That was just the background. I later added the flowers on it and added some texture with colored pencils and markers.

Midas

Personally, I love this painting. I think that I like it because of the idea that I had behind it, to be honest.
   As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've always kind of been really into myths and legends. Midas was the king who wished that all he touched would turn to gold and I always sort of had an interest in that story. The golden touch could seem, at first, kind of empowering because doesn't the world run on money and wealth? In the end it leads him to nothing, though. It owns him and he no longer owns it. I tried to portray that in this painting.
I used acrylic paints and Prismacolor markers for detailing and sharpening my lines.

Red and Gold

These are all products of experimentation, really.

 The first wasn't really inspired by anything I just wanted to try drawing someone looking up with really crazy, pretty hair. The next one was kind of inspired by matadors and Carmen. The very last one was just me trying a new pattern besides triangles.

I will be trying to make my posts more weekly now!

For What's Just

 

Happy Thursday and good afternoon. It's almost Friday! 

So, this was a sort of practice for another larger painting I will put up later. It's based off of one of Banksy's New Orleans works. I really wanted to paint something red and black that day.

I painted it in acrylics and, of course, found myself splattering it with them as well.

9" x 12" paper.