The Gaber's Sketchblog

Monday, March 16, 2009

Artist Trading Card Counteratttack! HADOKEN!!!

The first is one of my daughter, and the second is another Elizabeth Tolley study
Both down ATC style 2.5x3.5 in watercolor.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Madonna

My wife was reading to our daughter when she fell asleep, and I thought I would capture the moment.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

There is this awesome painter Nathan Fowkes that does all these amazing little watercolors from life. So I tried to do the same technique he talks about on his blog. Except in the snow and not as awesome results.

Each are around 3x5
and 20-40mins each

Friday, February 27, 2009

Self Portrait #1

This is what I look like made out of oilAfter I'm done with a painting I scrape all the leftover colors that I have mixed into little puddles of warm and cool greys. I also wipe my brushes off on a blank canvas. When I started this painting I had a couple of weeks worth of these spare colors, and a very interesting and dark canvas. In a way this portrait is an amalgamate of my paintings. All the experiance from the other paintings went into this portrait by using those colors. A kinda alternative way to symbolize oneself by means of color, instead of objects.

5hours
24cmx30cm
Oil on canvas

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Sven Portrait

In Sweden on your last day of work you get.....a portrait.
Well I'm happy with some of the colors. I tried to use as much color theory as I could. There's a few things I'd like to fix but its gone now. Thats what you get for doing something the day its due. No time to make changes.

3 hours

9x12
watercolor

Monday, February 23, 2009

Trees

The best landscape painting I did on my weekly outdoor painting trip with Court Jones at the San Diego Mission
11x14
oil on canvas
(Court helped a little.)

I'm not good at painting the trees. So I got me a book and started practicing.

3x4 oil on massonite

Study of an Elizabeth Tolley Painting
8x12 oil on massonite

Last year I did a little painting in Balboa park of a tree in watercolor. I didn't now how to mix colors back then. After doing a few studies in oil and practicing more with watercolor I painted over it. Adding more cools in the darks and bumping up the warms in the light. Before I started it had a 3 values.

5x8 on Watercolor paper

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Artist Trading Card Attack HIYAAAA!!!

These are those Artist Trading Cards that are all the rage with the kids in Somalia. Its a way to spread the love. Kinda like STDs. Its the whole reason the terrorists want to take away our freedom. Because we are free to make ATCs whenever and where ever with who ever you want. If you don't know what a Artist Trading Card is, then use the interslope and check'em out.

All images are 2.5x3.5

Watercolor on paper

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Solar powered

There was a town meeting on solar power here in Smedjebacken. I went because that means there will be free models, and I had some unused space in my watercolor sketchbook. The sketch on the left is from 2008. The 2 on the left are from today.