Acrylic painting (study) "Orchids"

I´m a new subscriber of the "Plain Air" magazine this year. There is a lot of inspiring stuff. I saw there amazing painting of orchids from Jerry Markham and decided that I must make some study of this awarded masterpiece... so here it comes... :)

The original is painted with oils my version is done with acrylics, painted on stretched canvas 40x30 cm...

It was a fun and also interesting ride because this not my usual "style". 

My "Orchids"

WIP

Acrylic painting "Goldie"

Next acrylic painting with "macro topic" :) . Actually it´s a second painting of snail ..but this one is a different species.
Not sure what to say more. It was fun. :)

acrylic paint on 32 x 24 cm  = 12,5 x 9,4 inch cardboard 400g/m2, signed and will be varnished...

"Goldie" 

WIP

Digital portrait "Eve2"

Here comes digital portrait after some time... it´s fan art book illustration with main character of the book - Eve...
You can see the first attempt in my older post here
Not much to say...

Huion table, CS4, some reference photo used

"Eve2"

WIP sketch

Acrylic painting "Green bridge"

Here comes next acrylic experiment called "Green bridge" (Zeleny most). I was inspired by cool macro photography of ladybug and I was trying to imitate those nice blue-greens and smooth gradients. 

I would say that colors are quite good but gradients with acrylic paint is real challenge (quite known true, I guess). I had also hard times with ladybug red color, even red right from tube was not so shine red as I would like to have...there must be some trick...:)

Anyway, enjoy the Green bridge painted with acrylic paint on 32 x 24 cm  = 12,5 x 9,4 inch cardboard 400g/m2, signed and varnished...

"Green bridge" 

WIP

Acrylic painting "Cestou na Javornicek"

Acrylic painting based on my photo from nice weekend spent in Beskydy hills (Czech Republic). You can see also speed up video with process,  sadly there is missing the very last update with details, but most of the process is visible...enjoy... :)

Acrylic paint on stretched canvas 30x40cm, glossy varnish.

Sold already,..

"Cestou na Javornicek"

Digital sketch "Morgan" from Walking dead

There was Digital painting hangout last night and here you can see my work from there... digital sketch portrait of Morgan from Walking dead series.
I can´t wait for the next season, will be coming soon.... yaaayee

Huion tablet + CS4

"Morgan"

Acrylic sketches + video

I have a new sketchbook for this year and I´m using it also for sketches witch acrylic paint. Here you can see two quick studies of paintings from Johannes Vloothuis (as I have a book from him).

Nothing fancy, main focus was on colors, simplify and values...

24x17cm

 I was trying to stream the progress on my stream channel. You can check the speed up recording.

Digital portrait illustrations for a book

I was looking for some new challenge so I started to work on illustrations for fantasy books "Kult Hada" and "Síla duše" written by Czech writer Petra Dragita Machova. 

I created digital portraits of two main characters and maybe I will come also with some "proper" illustration in the near future.

The book is currently shared on internet, so will see if it will be also printed (with my illustrations I hope:) 

It´s really great new experience to work with the author and discuss all the aspects related to painting...

So behold, here comes Eve and Gar...

 "Eve"

"Gar"

I´m streaming !

I has been doing some research during few last weeks about streaming, streamers and related stuff. I am quite excite about this so I decided to try it too. 

You can check my new streaming channel here - twitch.tv/ultrajaryn , there is also active thumbnail on this blog, top of the right side panel.

I´m going to stream my painting process, usually between 20:30 and 23:00 so you can check whats going on...:)  Currently it´s commented in Czech language, I will try English in the future, maybe. It´s watchable even without sound... :)

Here you can check recorded first stream, it´s speed up 16x so it´s not so boring... :)

 

Here is the current state of the picture:

My new easel and experiments with acrylic

Welcome in the New year 2016. Here comes some blog update after the Xmas long pause...

Portable plain air easel

I was working on my new transportable easel - I would like to focus on plain air paintings this year, so I need to prepare proper gear for it...  Base of the easel is a standard portable camera tripod, the rest are mainly hardboard parts made by me. No rocket science, just check the picture...

Acrylic sketches
Here comes some traditional landscape pictures, I was mostly experimenting with different types of acrylic paint and some techniques.
I´ve  also started new sketchbook for these color experiments. Nothing fancy, just a standard paper, will see how it will handle all the paint...

The first one was painted according my photo reference from Beskydy - Valassko. 22x17cm

"Strom na Javornicku"

work in progress

And just training/experiment painting of a tree. A4

"Stromek" :)