I've started a new painting based on a photo uploaded to Gothic BC by my fellow photographer Mykl Diekiss.

All my paintings start out as a few feeble pencil lines like this to guide the composition. Most of the detail that will be most challenging…

Red Chair Painting #4 (Tristan Risk)
24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas.

The early stages of the fourth Red Chair painting. This a very poor quality photo so a lot of the nuance of the colours is lost.

A few bits and bobs for my next steampunk project. I'm not saying what it is yet other than it will be a product for…

The beginning of Red Chair #4

All done. I think the jacket came out rather well. I had a hell of a time photographing this, though The face is over-exposed. I'll have to reshoot it on a sunny day. I couldn't get the artificial light even enough.

EDIT 07/01/22: I've replaced the…

Earlier today I finished off the vest. I knew I was going to have trouble with this before I even started. It's the reason I picked this image to work with. Nick wore just about the most difficult to paint clothing imaginable. The vest is shiny silk…

Remember this post about how this picture reminded me of the lighting in Academic painting? A few dozen filters, layers, and assorted other Photoshop tricks later, et voilà.

And here is a detail crop so you can appreciate the full effect:

I haven't had the time to work on this anywhere near as much as I would like, so it's been progressing slowly. I didn't set up this photograph properly so there is a slight glare in the top right that is doing some bad things - there are subtleties…

I got a little bit of time in on the new Red Chair painting, getting the under-painting done for the light areas, a.k.a. the creepy blue phase.