That took too long

The Rabbit Hole piece took too long, to do, as well as upload. I guess it’s because I’m comfortable with GIMP, but 5, 6 hours and another 1 hour to upload needs to be cut down. Bah, anyways, next piece should be the one for Samar or Garage.

I’ll be printing t-shirts and helping out with “House on Mars”, Beirut, so I need to write down a business matrix for t-shirts for them. I’ll be going back to the network cafe today and finish up the painting, also was invited to a dinner later so there is that as well. Fun.

The Rabbit Hole, Garage, Mad Water, Steaks and commissions.

I met with Gustav, and was able to get a much clearer idea on the shop design. I printed out the “Apocalyptic Gears” piece, and I got a new commission from Garage because of it. Garage is a pub at the bar street in Hamra. They asked for a piece similar to that one, but a tad more grungy.

I’ll need to head to Rabbit Hole at around 1 am, and take two pictures. One of a person to be done in the same style as the “Apocalyptic Gears”, and another one of the place itself to be done something similar to Mad Water.

Meeting with Charlie though at Mad Water, we’re going be putting screws or clips through the piece so it fits into the table, and then we talked about the other pieces and what we can do for them. My suggestion was four pieces, two for both of the owners and two for the staff. The circular tables downstairs would need to be done as well. so that’s around 13 more paintings for that, 16 total excluding the one already completed.

So, sixteen and two for Rabbit Hole, one for Garage, the Gear’s piece is going be put up at Captain’s Cabin, leaving one more for that place. That means around 20 more commissions.

Tomorrow night I’ll be pulling the all-nighter to complete the “Death Machine” piece on the plexiglass. 3 by 3, so 9 paintings total. Printing for the painting would be done tomorrow, semi-glossy paper. Repaint that, stick it on, and paint it out. I’ll need to finish the Gustav piece before Saturday, with the materials at hand then. They would be closing on Sunday till 12 pm, so I will have 12 hours to complete the piece then instead of the standard 7. So that’s another all-nighter planned.

On the plus side though, got 9 steaks for 6 USD at the supermarket, split those in half so that’s almost a month’s meal ready. Cooked the first whole one today, using J&B, cinnamon, white pepper, a heaping of spices, a healthy dose of butter and of course oil. Made a cup of rice with cinnamon and J&B, with some nuts mixed inside. After the steak was done, diced that up, mixed it into the rice, and threw in veggies cooked in the steak sauce inside. Yum.

I need to finish as much of the Gustav piece now as I can, the black and white sketch now then the color drafts later. And then I need to finish the Rabbit hole paintings when I’m back, and maybe toss in the Garage pieces as well.

New Toys and all nighters

So I got new toys, ZBrush, Photoshop CS6, and Painter 12. It’s going to take getting used to, instead of the open-sourced equivalents, but I think it will help tremendously in making better art. (At least for Vectors, GIMP is horrible for making vectors).

 

That said, working on the Gustav commission now. I finished the sketches, which is toying around the idea of the two faces of the owners, with rainbow trees branching upwards breaking into branches filled with plates and sweets, to where the top spreads out into the milky way and connects the two thoughts. And then the art nouveau pastels as colors and a rectangle in the middle containing the shop’s sign and words.

 

That said, I need to go and make a quick run and take another photograph of the shop sign, the one I did before was a bad quality version, and then come on back and work on that. Tomorrow though, after work, there is the competition meeting, and I think I’ll be pulling another all nighter to finish the painting at the network cafe. I was able to get the place closed down for one day and night to finish that. I also need to meet up with Gustav’s owners, and then see if we can arrange a time where they could close a bit earlier than usual so I can work on the painting on the metal shutters there.

Fun, fun, fun.

Sektor 83. Jupiter Space Colony.

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Mohawk

Oracle

Oracle. Mixed media on canvas and glass. 100 x 150 cm. Smoke series.

A young warrior approaching a dragon oracle for advice. Smoke on canvas, outlines of form on glass.