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drawrings etc drawrings etc a small sampling of how i spend my time saturday october 15 2016 steampunk octopus posted by rick lovell at 10 15 2016 05 41 00 pm no comments monday february 09 2015 a few new pieces acrylics on panel duke ellington watercolor and gouache on bristol paper for the greenbook chronicles muddy waters acrylics watercolors oil wash and colored pencils for the greenbook chronicles posted by rick lovell at 2 09 2015 09 03 00 pm no comments wednesday november 20 2013 playing with art supplies demos from materials and techniques ii this fall quarter i love this class because its a chance to use stuff i don t typically use it also lets me step away from the computer and get my hands dirty pen and ink with watercolor on illustration board watercolor over acrylics on watercolor paper same as above with photoshop acrylics over tissue paper on cradled panel mixed media on illustration board posted by rick lovell at 11 20 2013 10 53 00 pm 2 comments friday may 31 2013 a demo piece from a couple of quarters ago posted by rick lovell at 5 31 2013 04 24 00 pm 1 comment tuesday may 28 2013 biker frog demo biker frog demo a set on flickr a demo i did for my acrylic techniques class this quarter spring 2013 scad atlanta illustration it involves a technique called grisaille in which a monochromatic tonal painting is done first then glazes of color are added the technique usually involves oils but this is all acrylics on a gessoed panel posted by rick lovell at 5 28 2013 10 38 00 pm no comments lyle lovett demo lyle lovett demo a set on flickr a demo i did for my materials and techniques 2 class this week spring 2013 scad atlanta illustration it s a variation on the layer isolation technique used by many illustrators including mark english and c f payne posted by rick lovell at 5 28 2013 10 36 00 pm no comments saturday march 02 2013 a cold day at the zoo goni montes and i have many of the same grad students in our classes so we all took a field trip to the atlanta zoo yesterday early march in atlanta can be really pleasant or really bitter it was closer to the bitter side but some of the more robust animals were out in the open and we had a good time despite the chilly weather here are a few of the sketches from the trip posted by rick lovell at 3 02 2013 06 21 00 pm no comments saturday june 09 2012 clapton portrait i started this piece several weeks ago as a demo in my watercolor class it uses burt silverman s technique of transparent watercolors and gouache on plate or smooth bristol paper the process is quite interesting and allows for an additive and subtractive approach to painting in watercolors and the results often resemble oil washes rather than watercolors 10 5 x 13 5 i know it s a huge jump from stage three to the finished painting because i failed to document it as often as i should have click on the finished version below to see a larger image posted by rick lovell at 6 09 2012 10 45 00 pm no comments friday february 10 2012 marty feldman week this week i had some sort of a bizarre inspiration to pay tribute to marty feldman for my graduate techniques class i had them do a collage and transfer piece so i did a quick demo not knowing exactly where it was going to take me that s the beauty of collage and transfer techniques which evolve and morph unexpectedly as the piece progresses the theme for the assignment was light and here s what i ended up with then a few days later goñi montes class was about to do a portrait project using a layer isolation technique he asked me to do a demo of that process so again i went to my old friend marty feldman and drew up a caricature he s one guy who is an actual living caricature so making his eyes look too big and too wacky isn t easy at any rate here s how it turned out posted by rick lovell at 2 10 2012 11 48 00 am 1 comment monday october 17 2011 steve jobs illustration i did a technique demo for my wife s ap studio class last week using acrylics and watercolors a la sam weber but without the skill or finesse that sam has it s a portrait of steve jobs and i wanted to do an image that depicts him as a visionary so i tried several ways to call attention to his eyes not sure which one works best but i m leaning toward the straight portrait with no background or embellishments any favorites posted by rick lovell at 10 17 2011 10 39 00 pm no comments wednesday august 31 2011 sketchbook experiment i scanned a page from my sketchbook and played with it in photoshop to see where i could take it i had been looking at a few klimt pieces and was inspired to try some digital gold leaf here is the sketchbook scan the drawing is done with tuscan red and cream prismacolor pencils on brown craft paper here is the final posted by rick lovell at 8 31 2011 08 20 00 pm 2 comments saturday july 23 2011 yonah mountain crush fest here is a recent commission for a north georgia vineyard called yonah mountain named after the prominent geological feature with exposed granite scars amid the rolling hills of cleveland ga this is the poster jeff holman is the designer and he s responsible for the very nice type design originally the idea was to create an extreme horizontal that would serve as an outdoor board as well as a vertical piece that would serve as the poster so i had to work in the outdoor board orientation which was 5 feet wide by 2 5 feet high at 300dpi so it was quite a beefy file turns out it won t be used as an outdoor board but as a smaller scale road sign leading to the event the artwork was a bit richer and saturated than this but jeff added a texture effect which reduced the contrast and made it look even more like a vintage piece i like the result posted by rick lovell at 7 23 2011 06 20 00 pm no comments wednesday march 23 2011 watercolor test piece one of my favorite artists and illustrators is burton silverman i have a few of his books but they mostly deal with oils and drawing then i saw he had a book called breaking the rules of watercolor and the images were stunning it looks more like oils than watercolor and i was very curious about his process so i bought the book i am teaching a watercolor illustration course this spring so i wanted to try a piece or two using his suggestions and i m very happy with the first trial piece two things make this technique different from traditional watercolor the surface is 3 ply strathmore plate bristol paper very slick surface harder than hot press watercolor paper the colors slide on the paper and don t penetrate so deeply into the fibers which means you can lift colors off to reveal the lighter areas of the image with a moist paper towel or a damp brush the second thing is the addition of a bit of opaque white gouache to add a bit of haze or semi transparency to the color it tends to deaden the vibrancy a bit and makes things feel less garish than purely transparent colors can be it will take lots of paintings to really get used to the feel of the paper and to learn what can and can not be done with this technique but so far i m pleased and intrigued with the possibilities posted by rick lovell at 3 23 2011 05 16 00 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers about me rick lovell i am an illustrator and illustration program coordinator at savannah college of art and design atlanta view my complete profile feedjit feedjit live blog stats links my website my sketchbook scad atlanta illustration blog concept art irene gallo s blog the drawing board wet canvas society of figurative arts drawn eat poo society of illustrators franklin pond chamber music blog archive 2016 1 october 1 steampunk octopus 2015 1 february 1 2013 5 november 1 may 3 march 1 2012 2 june 1 february 1 2011 5 october 1 august 1 july 1 march 1 february 1 2010 6 november 2 october 1 march 1 january 2 2009 14 december 3 november 2 october 1 september 1 may 1 april 3 march 1 february 2 2008 15 december 2 september 1 august 2 july 2 june 2 may 1 april 4 february 1 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