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This weekend is Hero Con at Charlotte, NC, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’m excited, you know hows going to be there? Yeah, that guy and them and that guy with those, ohh they look cool. Wait, no not them, ME. I’m going to be there tabling with the Talented Tyson Hesse of Boxer Hockey. Now where well we be you wondering. Well here is a map all you need to find us. We are next to the Food and the Shitters.

Now I’ll be premiering the first volume of Franky and some prints at the show. Also be doing commissions, color and black & white. Here are some pictures of  the book, getting the books. Prints and prices for everything. Thanks again and make sure to check us out at table AA-141.

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So I finished the piece. We have one more class this saturday but figured I would write about finishing this piece and how it came out. Last time we talked, I had just did the outline to the piece. I had to take pit brush pen in different colors and look for the hard edges. Using a like brown for light, puruple for shadow and a red for some areas. I think I put less lines down then on the face, worried of putting to many down.

Then the hard part of the piece, the shadows. Taking a paynes Gray acrylic fluid, (well I use require acrylic for part of it cause I bought the wrong one) I lay down the dark cold shadows. Cool colors are blue, purple and some green. They tend to fad in the back with warm colors, red, orange and yellow come forward. So I used the blue in areas like the coat, the hair and beard. Areas that don’t want jetting forward. Then took dioxazine purple to do the shadows in the face and ear. Since he was wearing a black suit, I had to take many layers of both paint over it. Also had to use about an inch long brush, Brian made me use it tell I stop fearing it. Also to get the large areas like the background.

Now once this was done it was time to add color. The actual watercolor took like an hour and a half. First I lay down the lightest color next to the high lights, so all over the face. Then went back in and added red to different ares. I won’t lie, at first I thought…great…he’s a clown. However I was wrong once the color dried. It looked perfect. Worked the beard, the shadows and bam the piece was done. I am so proud of this work and you can bet that I’ll be posting more up here. Thanks everyone and hope you enjoy.

So, I enjoy writing here about news and things I’m intrested in… however, the problem is. I don’t always know what to write about. I don’t just want to be all depressive or just talk about things I like. So I’m happy to say this is first of many about this water coloring class I’m taking with Brian Stelfreeze.

This class is set up in 4 seasons, the first one is a demo on what to expects from the class with Brian. Then the next three are going through each step, 3 saturadays and the demo was thursday night.

Brian Stelefreeze is a comic book artist that live here in an Atlanta. He has been around working in the industry for about twenety years. For more info on Brian Stelfreeze at Wikipedia or his watercolors at Gaijin Studio.

Well we had to pick my  image for the watercolor portrait. I didn’t really know who to pick, my friend Parker suggested the Most Interesting Man in the World. If you don’t know who that is, well here are some examples.

So this was my image I took of him, I then had to take it and basically draw a color by numbers over his face. So drawing where the shadows, highlights on the face. I did this before the class on Thursday.

Now, here are some photos and a small video of Brian working. He did most of this in two hours, from starting with that same drawing as me to almost finishing a painting, I felt like a little kid watching him. It was hard to speak and didn’t want to miss a single moment of it. I have seen him paint before but this was so much fun to see.

Not the most exciting but get a sense of his work. Here are some other pictures of his work on the piece.

Once in a while, there is a movie you just have to see. I first saw this when I saw the double feature of GrindHouse. I remember leaving and hoping one day this would become a movie. Some dreams come true, this movie seems to have everything I hope it would have in. Also some great actors, well enough of me rambling.

GrindHouse one