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Graig,
Forget the haters. If someone wins and doesn't want to wait, send it to me instead. Btw, it looks spectacular. You did Jose serious justice although the other painter is definitely much hotter than you are. Also, why did you not post the 27 Yanks to your On The Easel thread? I think it has been a while since that thread got some love buddy. Mark Oh damn. I forgot. I owe you some scans. Coming shortly. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk |
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As far as the raffling off another amazing painting. My only suggestion would be to add the expected time till completion. Whether it is 2 months or 2 years, whatever you are comfortable with. We all have different expectations and a soft expected finishing date would take care of the only concern that has ever been brought up. I know I would buy a spot like I have in the others. |
Another masterpiece, Graig. Love it! :cool:
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Ben North,
In regards to painting with the detail the last one had, it would be difficult for Graig to give a soft date with any kind of close accuracy, and to put a soft date on any of his paintings would cause him to worry about getting it done on a deadline. I know I wouldn't want Graig rushing to get any painting of mine done. Why tamper with success. No, a soft deadline would not work out well. Maybe a few more postings, but we all know how busy Graig must have been. In regards to having another raffle, it is all up to Graig, he knows whenever he needs me, I will be there. But he has a lot on his table right now, as do I. |
If I were to be lucky enough to win such a raffle, the only thing I'd sweat would be the pressure of choosing the one image I'd most want painted.
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Fantastic, Graig!
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Graig - that's incredible! I almost expect the bat to land. So realistic!
Proud to have you as a fellow member. I hope that some day, I'll have one of your works to hang in my Baseball Room. Thank you so very much for sharing the details of the process...very enlightening. - |
Definitely have another raffle! Whatever the time frame, it looks to be well worth it! I'm still bummed about missing out on winning the last raffle. If only 3 people at that game had just stayed home.....
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Hey everyone,
Thanks so much for all of the kind comments, as well as the words of encouragement about the raffle stuff. I think in regards to the latter, I'll just have to re-evaluate where things are later on in the year or in early 2018. I do try my best to have these things and push the winner's painting closer to the front of the queue, but the older stuff can (and needs to) get in the way sometimes. This Bautista painting was definitely an example of that, and compounded with familial obligations, it just got finished later than I would have hoped it to. However, I'm happy that Chris will be receiving his painting soon. I'm planning on bringing Jose in to be photographed tomorrow, so I imagine it'll be on its way next week. Here's the finished, varnished piece: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...siblds9x9.jpeg And a couple of details: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ssyqzlkjb.jpeg The fun stuff happened with Bautista's helmet and hand. With that helmet, it was important for it to FEEL like plastic. So, light was going to shine on it differently than it would cloth. You'd have harsher highlights with fewer halftones in-between, as well as sharper edges where those highlights are. Also, since the lights in the stadium are traditionally cooler in temperature, the light on everything will appear a bit more blue than it might in sunlight. In some of those highlights, I played with some complimentary oranges on those edges to really make them pop more. It was a similar kind of thinking for Jose's hand, but the edges were treated a bit differently, and since I wanted that feature to stick out a bit (since it's in front of his body as far as space is concerned). I was able to play with a few of the complimentary colors there as well. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...sloqkqa0v.jpeg The same kind of thinking went into the painting of the bat. Well, the same kind of thinking in regards to the highlights and how light falls on it. The tempered wood is a harder, slicker surface than cloth, so it's also going to have light fall on it a bit differently than other materials. I also pushed the texture and impasto on the bat, hoping to make it pop more. The most important thing was pushing that crowd back, though. That's something that involved more edge manipulation than anything else, and maybe a bit of chromatic color control. By juxtaposing the sharp bat against the fuzzy shapes of that crowd, hopefully it creates the illusion of depth, as well as draws your eye to it before anything (or at least secondary to Jose). http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...sjunwitfe.jpeg The detail of the legs was to show all of the different kind of stuff that went into that lower part of the painting - all of the different textures that were a challenge to paint. The smooth cleats had to look different than the rough dirt of the batter's box, and so on. Anywho, I'll post the professionally shot image once I receive it, and maybe some details from that as well. If any of y'all have any questions or comments, feel free to chime in. As always, thanks for reading. Graig |
Awesome!
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