“Trish” reborn

©2016, Emma Pittson. “Trish”, Photoshop.

Well, this gal has had quite the makeover!  You may remember her as the painting that refused to cooperate, but I just didn’t want to let her go.  After all, I’d put so much work into her!  So when I went back to it, I decided to change up a few things, colour-wise.  I think she looks better this way (also, she looks meaner, which is not a bad thing).

Her bio reads thusly: “Young co-ed superhero whose superhero power is the ability to have an unbelievably large circle of friends, admirers, and hangers-on, and this despite the fact that she’s never been particularly nice to anyone.  Like, EVER.  Also, no one is exactly sure where she lives.”

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Jon x Sansa in the style of Mary Blair

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©2016, Emma Pittson. “The Last Wolves in Winterfell”, Photoshop.

I never knew that trying to keep an image simple could be so challenging, but I’m really happy with how this turned out!  Done as a thank you for having reached a certain Follower milestone on Tumblr using Kyle T. Webster’s Gouache brushes for Photoshop.

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“Due to bad planning…”

Ever had that one painting that just refuses to die cooperate?  Well, for me, it’s this b*tch right here.  It’s my fault, really: I drove her off the lot without any clear idea of where I wanted to take her.  Honestly, her face has about a litre of paint on it!  Memo to me: pre-production is your friend!  (Or, to borrow an example from my former industry, computer animation: be like unto Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds”, not “Pirates of the Caribbean”)

Anyways, I am officially pretending that she never happened at all and will now move on to something else.  Huzzah!

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@2016, Emma Pittson. “Trish”, acrylic on canvas, 16″ x 20″ x1″.

Artistic Output of 2016… so far!

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Starting at the top, left: Face Study (pencil on paper); Face Study (digital); Face Study of Nita Naldi (digital); commission of G.I.Joe’s Duke “Long Day at the Office” (digital); 5 Daily Paintings of New Zealand landscapes (acrylic on panel)

As we approach the halfway point of 2016, I thought it would be cool to assemble all (or most of) the artwork I’ve produced so far this year and get a better sense of where I want to go next.

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