Thursday Feb 24th: Goddess Mai – Shibari Artist

FEES NOW REDUCED TO  $10! We want to make it even easier for you to come out and do some drawing with a great group of artists!

Night Session:003 – Aftershots

Just a quick post to follow up the last session. Here’s a sketch of out two deadly ninjas from Atsushi Natsumeda:

Now – I apologize that I don’t have ‘finished’ sketches from this one. After all the great work they did posing! My excuse is that I was experimenting with making little art movies:) Check out these time-lapse videos I did with  GorillaCam on my iphone.

 

Thursday Jan 06th Session: Wilson Hoi-Yant Li and Stephanie Wong

Night Session:002 – Aftershots

Update: Just got this sketch from Jeevan:

Some of the work is coming in from our Night Session with Lakita.  We had another great turn-out. Thanks to everyone who came to support us and keep the painting session growing! Expect more updates as we get new art from the evening…

Jianli Wu – doing a great job with  photoshop. Some excellent lighting!

Atsushi Natsumeda – really capturing the detail in this one!

Marc Taro Holmes (me!) – another one of my splashy watercolors Next time I think I’ll do digital – seeing Jianli and others reminded me how fun it is

Aftershots: Workshop Photos

Thanks to LeeHyunMoo for taking pics from the last workshop…

 

 

A few more of Lakita

I’m really excited about our next session. I’ve always wanted to paint a Tribal dancer.  Lakita has some excellent costumes and an exotic look about her. This is going to be a great painting session! (You know I’m always going to say that) – but this one will be a highlight of my month for sure!

Here’s a few more shots of Lakita:

Thursday Nov 25th Session: Lakita Renée Lynes

Snaps

Look at all that artistic brainpower at work!

Aftershots: Karine Fournier – Zombie Bride

Hey everyone! Thanks to everybody who came out for our first painting session. Glad you guys could all make it – hope to see you back next month.

I had great time painting last night! Karine came up with a very challenging white on white zombie bride costume using a vintage wedding dress and some ghoulish makeup.

I really enjoyed the chance to spend 4 hours on the pose. Much more fun than the usual gesture session. Not that I’m advising staying away from short pose sessions I’m always doing as much sketching as I can. BUT – it was great to get in front of an excellent model and do a couple paintings. You train different drawing muscles when you do a sustained drawing.

Enough talk – here’s some work from last night!

I just got in this excellent digital painting from Rob Barrett. Rob’s currently a concept artist for THQ here in Montreal. He’s been through the super-elite classical training at the Concept Art Atelier in San Francisco, but is a really down to earth guy and great painter. You’ll find some of his fine art work up here: [bobjimart] or on his [CGHub profile].

Also just in: pics from film industry concept artist and matte painter Dahmindra Jeevan.  For more of his work, check out his profile on [Behance].

So – If you’ve got shots from the night, or scans of your stuff – send ‘em over and we’ll share them with everyone!

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(oh yes, and here’s my watercolor/gouaches of Karine in her challenging-to-paint Zombie Bride costume):

You are the Art! (Volunteers Wanted!)

If you’re exhibitionist (and fit enough to hold the pose ) or if you’re a cosplay creative type – We’d love to have you volunteer to model, or to make/lend us a costume! You’ll get some great art in return and have a fun time. Let us know if you have crazy props or accessories lying around. We’re interested in talking to you!