Calendar for September 2016
The year has come around. It will be my first anniversary in September that I started working as an independent artist. I'm not rich (yet, ha ha), I'm selling a little and working a lot, but I'm still alive and haven't lost weight (to bad, me think). In that time I learned a lot about marketing, selling options and similar stuff that is not something an artist likes to do. I also did everything in my power to improve my drawing and painting skills and on the other hand to tea
Mermaids 2
The last member of my Mermaids collection is Jason, or prince Neptun, as you prefer. He is a merman (obviously in English there is a word for him which is not the case in Slovene language). The girls wanted me to make them some male company and since I never ever painted male portrait I was eager to take the challenge. There is, of course, this thing I have for men with long hair and a beard but to paint a man like that can be extra tricky. But I'm not scared anymore and here
Mermaids
Painting a mermaid for my last homework at Olga Furman's Painting Dreamy Portraits class I got an idea to make couple of series of different magical/fantasy/mystical creatures. So mermaids were the first series that I begun with and so far I finished three mermaid portraits I wanted to share with you in this slideshow. I used aquarelle paper, pencil, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylics, gesso, gelatos, gold and silver marker and paper napkins for background. Unfortunately
Painting Dreamy Portraits - 4th week
After 3 weeks our class with Olga Furman should end since it was said it's gonna be a 3-week course, but Olga gave us another week for free. That was a great surprise and a very nice gesture from her. The goal of this lesson was to paint a dreamy face with a combination of a human face and some part of an animal. Olga showed us her work process and explained everything from sketching, color mixing, underpainting, glazing, layering, working on background, adding horns and flo
