marcel
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
experimental paintings (includes robots and blimps)
Here are some smaller painting experiments I've completed recently:
8x8in
20x20 in
5x6in
20x24 in
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
new super defender of the universe robot painting online
I added some colour to a comic style painting from a while back, and I've posted a proper image online.
Here's the result:
It's a smaller version of a much larger one I did a couple of years ago.
cheers,
marcel
Here's the result:
It's a smaller version of a much larger one I did a couple of years ago.
cheers,
marcel
Thursday, November 21, 2013
New paintings from my Toronto show now online
on my website. I've collected the paintings in the show under the following link: Elaine Fleck Gallery - November 2013
The show is still up for another week or so in case you're in Toronto and would like to go see the paintings in person. The paintings do look so much better in person than they do online.
When my friends came to the opening they were all commenting about how they loved the texture in the paintings and how they were surprised to see it because it doesn't show up in the online photos. I'm not sure how to capture the texture better, but maybe it's something I'll have to work on.
The show is still up for another week or so in case you're in Toronto and would like to go see the paintings in person. The paintings do look so much better in person than they do online.
When my friends came to the opening they were all commenting about how they loved the texture in the paintings and how they were surprised to see it because it doesn't show up in the online photos. I'm not sure how to capture the texture better, but maybe it's something I'll have to work on.
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| Edna - 22x30 |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Big city dreams / robot cityscape
Finished, finally! Although this took a lot longer than most of my paintings do ( I really don't want to think what my $/hr rate is on this one :-/ ) I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I think I pushed my limits, which is a good thing to do once in while.
Cheers,
Marcel
Cheers,
Marcel
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Robots I can't show you - work in progress
I'd really love to show off more of this robot painting, but of I'd really rather not give the whole thing away before it's finished, so here's part of it, at the underpainting stage.
#workinprogress #robots
Friday, January 20, 2012
Sketchy doodle robots world takeover
I've spent a bit of time trying to figure out what to do for my next set of paintings, and I've done some doodling as a part of that process, and that included some robots.
While I continue to plot my world takeover, er, I mean, figure out what to do next, here are some of the sketches. Enjoy!
While I continue to plot my world takeover, er, I mean, figure out what to do next, here are some of the sketches. Enjoy!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Robots go ArtRage
Yesterday I found ArtRage, a digital painting program and used it to colour this robot drawing.
(I've been trying to find replacements for Photoshop, which is very expensive to buy new.)
I was looking at GIMP, which is a free open source program. I really didn't like GIMP very much and found it really frustrating to work with. It has a lot of the features of Photoshop, but I got too frustrated trying to figure out how to use it.
Then I found ArtRage, and the demo worked well enough that I bought it. ($59 compared to PS's $799)
The ArtRage app and UI is designed well and if you're used to colouring in Photoshop, then it all translates really well. You can paint in layers, and as you can see, you get a really nice effect with the oil brushes. Next I'll have to try out the inking and the watercolours.
It does have some drawbacks and isn't really a Photoshop replacement. It can't open more than one painting at a time, it's doesn't have Photoshop's gradient tool, and it can't record actions and apply them to a folder full of images ( very handy for resizing your digital photos for web uploading ), and importantly for my photo documentation of my paintings, it can't correct lens distortion. However, what it does do, it does well, and it's well worth the purchase price.
Now I just have to find something that can open the NEF files from the Nikon and do batch resizing on them and also allow me to correct lens distortion, and stitch together composite shots of paintings, then I'll be all good. Yikes, I might just have to buy Photoshop anyway...
(I've been trying to find replacements for Photoshop, which is very expensive to buy new.)
I was looking at GIMP, which is a free open source program. I really didn't like GIMP very much and found it really frustrating to work with. It has a lot of the features of Photoshop, but I got too frustrated trying to figure out how to use it.
Then I found ArtRage, and the demo worked well enough that I bought it. ($59 compared to PS's $799)
The ArtRage app and UI is designed well and if you're used to colouring in Photoshop, then it all translates really well. You can paint in layers, and as you can see, you get a really nice effect with the oil brushes. Next I'll have to try out the inking and the watercolours.
It does have some drawbacks and isn't really a Photoshop replacement. It can't open more than one painting at a time, it's doesn't have Photoshop's gradient tool, and it can't record actions and apply them to a folder full of images ( very handy for resizing your digital photos for web uploading ), and importantly for my photo documentation of my paintings, it can't correct lens distortion. However, what it does do, it does well, and it's well worth the purchase price.
Now I just have to find something that can open the NEF files from the Nikon and do batch resizing on them and also allow me to correct lens distortion, and stitch together composite shots of paintings, then I'll be all good. Yikes, I might just have to buy Photoshop anyway...
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