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Mike Pelletier: Lucy Skull
“In 2011 I was invited to create a piece for an exhibition called “Ctrl-Z” curated by 3d artist
The making of Loli Study 2 “Relinquish”
9 hours of drawing down to 2 minutes and 39 seconds.
Charcoal and Nupastel
19 inches by 24 inches on Neenah crest 80lb paper
Original available for $250 at: www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
High quality giclee prints available at: www.society6.com/orlandosanchezart
Loli Study 2 “Relinquish”
Charcoal and Nupastel
19 inches by 24 inches on Neenah crest 80lb paper
Original available for $250 at: www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
High quality giclee prints available at: www.society6.com/orlandosanchezart
I had a great time putting together the video for this drawing and watching the changes that went on for 9 hours. Usually your working on a piece and once you commit to a change your memory of what it used to look like before is pretty bad. I think there were a couple points where it was finished but I wanted to continue pushing my self to really get the expression and feeling across very well.
The feeling I had after it was complete was a sense of letting go of your own consciousness. A feeling of transcendence that every one goes through right before going to sleep. That one moment that you feel yourself slipping from one reality into another. Your memory of color shifts into these warm and cools, and at times only black and white. I find a deep connection with this painting that I enjoy. It is beautiful:)
Hope you enjoy the journey of watching the process and the painting. Oh and I want to say thank you to all the new followers, and rebloggers:)
Charcoal, nupastel, and black sumi ink on neenah crest paper. 4 hours of drawing process condensed to 3 minutes 21 seconds.
It’s interesting to see where I would erase and redraw the face and try doing it again until I got it to where I thought it was good.
I also scanned the image in 600dpi to put it on society6. High quality giclee prints are available at: www.society6.com/orlandosanchezart
Original is sold
You can find more original works at: www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
Work in progress on this large oil painting. The composition is going to take a big change after the oils dry. What I am planning is to create some sort of structure with the background so that you can focus more on the portraits and your vision of the painting isn’t so scattered. A little organization is in order with the composition:)
My plan is the black and white version. Inspired from several different sources. I needed to go back to my value design of the composition.
The painting is oil on Neenah 110lbs paper. I sealed the paper with polyurethane before painting with oils on top. Pretty sturdy and low cost, and great for traveling.
Loli Study #1
Nupastels, charcoal, and black ink
on 18 inches by 24 inches Neenah 80lb paper
Original Artwork is Sold
Check out other available pieces at www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
Loli is one of three models that I recently did a photo shoot with that will inspire several studies. These studies will help the influence of what direction the large oil paintings will go. With this study I was intrigued with the idea of starting the drawing with charcoal. Charcoal allowed me to focus on just line and value. Then towards the end of the drawing I layered a warm and cool color to create a dynamic scene with in the black and white drawing. Finally with black sumi ink I was able to make the blacks even darker.
I love meeting and enjoying the story of each new muse that I get the chance to shoot for my ever growing beauty collection:) This is Loli showing me a nonchalant way of dislocating your shoulder. Damn!!! She is a very intelligent and beautiful girl, and we had a long wonderful conversation afterwards about everyone’s beauty. Conclusion of the conversation is cliche “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” cliche but I love it. It’s what i’m all about; I am the sole responsible being for seeing the beauty and to express it on canvas! I enjoy that challenge:)
What are your thoughts about seeing beauty? Do you consider it an easy thing to see or something that you have to work on?
Loli Digital Study #1
Digital painting is really allowing for a very saturated color play. By the way Loli the amazing girl that she is, is dislocating her shoulder in this painting. It’s an interesting thing to take a picture and then make a painting about it.
ArtErotica 2013 ATX
This event gets more amazing every year. For more info on it you can go here http://www.octopusclub.org/ArtErotica . This would be the third year I participate in it and the year I’ve been most involved in. I helped out with the setup, did most of the body painting, and created 4 live figure drawings that were sold (all proceeds went to the octupus club for people who are HIV positive in Austin and need financial help) as well as editing photos and video. In total there were 12 figure drawings created and sold thanks to the help of two other great artist Jane Radstrom and Lamar Mathurin. The styling and cage design was done by Jacki OH and makeup by Jay. This is one of those events I really enjoy being apart of every year.
Thank you everyone who helped out and I hope you enjoy the photos and video and maybe you can make it to next years event!!!
ArtErotica 2013 ATX
Thank you everyone who helped out and I hope you enjoy the photos and video and maybe you can make it to next years event as well!!!
Second Digital painting of Autumn. The marks on the figure and portrait are getting closer to how I’d like to paint. I still have to play with the background and give it a little more life, although I like the simple background. My idea with developing my digital painting skills is to learn a new medium and make these paintings available for prints. So After I finish this one I will post it were my prints are at www.society6.com/orlandosanchezart
preview of a cropped digital painting I have been working on for the past couple nights. Figuring out my shape designs and polishing skills. The model is Autumn.
Carson drawing #7
Nupastels on 18 inches by 24 inches
Neenah 80lb paper
Available for $200 at www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
This is the first video of me showing the process of my nupastel drawings. It took about 2 1/2 hours and it was condensed to 2 minutes. Hope you enjoy it:)
Carson Drawing #7
Nupastels on 18 inches by 24 inches
Neenah 80lb paper
Available for $200 at www.orlandosanchezart.bigcartel.com
