- Drawings, Paintings, and Blatherings by James Pezzetti
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Thank Jebus for Andrew Loomis
“You may question why we do not at once proceed to the finished, smooth, and round form. The answer is that in a drawing or painting, something of the individual procedure and structural quality should remain. When it is too much smoothed down and polished, it becomes entirely factual. The camera can do that. “In [...]
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Electric Kali: Progress. Also, Tim Knight is a Great Guy.
Making progress, slowly but surely. I’ve spent less time with this painting lately because I’m working on a new webcomic project, and Portal 2 came out. Seriously, buy this game. It’s excellent. More on the webcomic later, once the project is a little farther along. Here’s the final sketch for the painting. You can see [...]
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Queen of the Beasts
Here’s a painting I made for my wife late last year, for her birthday. Godzilla, you done got knocked the #*@$ out! The white marks scattered across her head are from paper left atop the painting before the varnish had completely cured. The paper stuck to the varnish enough to rough it’s smooth surface when [...]
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Electric Kali sketch fragment
“Woman, in the picture language of mythology… is the guide to the sublime acme of sensuous adventure. By deficient eyes she is reduced to inferior states; by the evil eye she is spellbound to banality and ugliness. But she is redeemed by the eyes of understanding. The hero who can take her as she is, [...]
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Studies – Electric Kali
I’m working on another painting of Kali. Below are some studies. Kali’s grimace is a challenging expression to illustrate– it may not really exist in reality. Each of these faces has an element I want in the painting, but none of them are exactly what I want. This is often the way of using reference– [...]
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…and we’re back
Got a sleek new look and a lot of changes under the hood, all thanks to my bro at Other Half Full. Thanks John! If you need web design or marketing assistance, he’s the man, drop him a line. Over the next few weeks I’ll get to know how to use this stuff, and hopefully [...]
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Change on the wind
Just got a notification from Blogger.com that they will be shutting down ftp support for their blogs– which is how I have this site set up. I’ll get started on migrating to some other framework, but be aware that things may be a bit spotty for a while. The last thing I want to do [...]
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Soup’s On!