Halloween Paintings

In honor of October first and all that is Halloween, I've been painting some halloween paintings and then listing them on my Etsy store. Just fun, smaller paintings. If I do anymore before halloween, I'll post them here too. 

Happy October!!!

Oil painting, i think its 6 x 6 in

 

Acrylic and a little bit of oil paint 8 x 10 in

Pumpkin Cabins

I mentioned before that I was doing sketches of a specific animal every week. This week I decided to switch it up and do 'Cabins' instead.

And since Halloween is coming up somewhat soon, my wife and I have been buying and making decorations and things. I guess pumpkins have been on my mind as a result, so I sketched out some "Pumpkin Cabins" as well.

Earlier sketches of the "White Whale" painting.

These are some of the earlier sketches I made before I painted the painting from my last post.

The first time the idea showed up in my sketchbook.

a little more complicated thumbnail (with a lot of changes).

another little sketch.

Some Pine Tree studies from my backyard.

the "almost finished" final drawing, I added the mushrooms and took out the rocks later.

a little model I made out of Sculpey to help me picture it better.

And if you just scroll down you should be able to see the finished picture.

White Whale Painting

Here's a digital painting I just finished. I had been sketching a lot of whales and eels in my sketchbook, so it just kind of evolved from that.

Weekly Animals

A few weeks ago I decided I would study a new animal every week for the next year, in order to help with my visual library. So I made a list of 52 random animals and every week I fill up a few pages with each one. First one was venomous snakes, then eels, then fish and this week its bats. It's been really fun and educational so far. Here's one sketch from venomous snake week

Eel Week

and Fish week.