Oil Painting Experiment

Posted by pookzilla on October 4, 2009

Awhile ago I got it in my head to do these pixel perfect paintings based on frames from Super Mario 3.  I fired the game up in an emulator (the Super Mario All Stars version with the 16 bit graphics) and found three frames I wanted to do and from these frames found a subsection focusing on an element within.  Two of them were Mario (one in the racoon suit and the other in the tanooki) and the third was of a piranha plant spitting a fireball.  I figured this would be a laborious undertaking but not so terrible – after all the canvases are only 8 x 10 or so.  I also decided to use oil – the first time I’ve ever used oil paint.

Twelve hours or so later and I’m about half done.   I’m really enjoying the oil and I think it’s actually making the process go faster given how I never have to worry about the paint drying.  However, the shear amount of detail that I’m trying to achieve is a lot more time consuming than I had hoped it’d be.

 Back In The Saddle

Posted by pookzilla on September 9, 2008

After a couple of failed attempts I’ve managed to paint something I’m not ashamed of.  I don’t think I love it, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.  It’s more spontaneous than the last two I’ve done (of which I’m too ashamed to photograph) but parts of it still feel a little artificial.

 Painting

Posted by pookzilla on September 1, 2008

I sat down to paint tonight for the first time in about two months.  I painted two things for my dad just after my mom died but other than that my heart just hasn’t been into it.  I thought I’d kick start it tonight by forcing myself to paint something benign, but it didn’t work.  Oh boy, it didn’t work at all.  What I’ve come up with looks really bad.   It’s like I’ve forgotten everything I learned in class…

I’m going to try a few more things tomorrow to see if I can’t get past it.  I’m the type of person to be easily discouraged.  If I dont kick the funk I’m not sure I’ll get back into it again.