Art Blog of Colin Boyer

2011-09-15T19:33:00.000-07:00

Valve recently visited my school and asked us to design a hypothetical new class for Team Fortress 2. This is "The Rocketman."

2011-08-18T00:10:00.000-07:00

Hey All! Here's some figure work followed by a few portrait studies. I've been doing these figure drawings in two values using ink, and I'm finding that it's great training for seeing shadow patterns, and very enjoyable!

2011-03-15T17:36:00.000-07:00

Hullo, hullo. It's been a while since my last post so I have lots of new things to upload. With this post today I'll focus on portraits done over the past six months or so.

2010-05-19T23:11:00.000-07:00

Landscape study.

2010-05-13T23:24:00.000-07:00

A skull study/WIP.

Every day the same dream

2010-05-12T19:06:00.001-07:00

Proof that videogames are art: http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html

2010-05-11T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hey all, here's some sketches. Some from life, some from ref, a few from my head and three are master copies. Once again, apologies for the terrible photos. Now that schools out, I don't have easy access to a scanner.

Here's some great collections of Van Dyck's drawings and etchings. Talk about economy of line. Extremely descriptive drawings with only just enough information to paint from, especially in the cloth. Check it out: http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/vandyck/, http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=121&page=2

2010-03-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

Some process images for a piece I'm working on, starting with the thumbnail.

The drawing I took into photoshop:

Was having a hell of a time with the anatomy, so I shot some reference shortly after starting the painting. More refining yet to do:

2010-03-19T17:34:00.000-07:00

Three hour pose from yesterday. Playing around with paint application. Oil on canvas.

2010-03-19T00:24:00.000-07:00

A six hour pose plus some quality time in Painter. I learned so much going over the forms digitally, mixing every color I put down properly and not relying on blenders for edges.

On a somewhat related note, Sargent has some poignant advice on painting found in the notes kept by two of his pupils, kindly hosted by Craig Mullins: http://goodbrush.com/misc/painting_lessons/lessons.htm. Very helpful!

More to come soon, with less digital cheating(!)

2010-03-18T09:52:00.000-07:00

Some paintings from recent figure sessions. Times range from about 15 to 45 minutes.

The model wouldn't stop talking during this one session, so I employed Mr. Gurney's 90 degree rule towards the end of class: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/09/slowing-down.html

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Guess Who

2010-02-08T07:26:00.000-08:00

The last of seven attempts at this portrait. I presented it to her this morning.

2010-01-29T18:10:00.000-08:00

A reworking of an old image and some illustrations:

2010-01-29T18:01:00.000-08:00

It's been too long, have some paintings. Some new, some old.

2009-12-12T01:56:00.000-08:00

"Severed Pig's Head On Plate" 2009, Digital.

2009-12-11T10:56:00.000-08:00

Somewhat exciting news today, folks. Sarasota Town Hall is bringing to town several high profile speakers, and The Ringling College Library Association is commissioning students to do portraits of them. I was selected to paint Condoleezza Rice's portrait.

Ms. Rice is speaking in February. More info on the event: http://www.rclassociation.org/.

The previous speaker was Bill Clinton, whose portrait was completed by the formidable Matt Buck: http://epicbuck.blogspot.com/2009/09/clinton.html

2009-12-11T10:14:00.001-08:00

Some new paintings and an old self portrait for today. The top two are in oils, the last one is watercolor. Yes, that's a Zelda t-shirt. And in case you think my right arm is rather wonky, it actually looked that way. It was broken in three places and I think I was missing several bones. Also, I didn't have a wrist.

2009-09-30T22:28:00.001-07:00

Hey all. Decided it was high time I had a place to dump my stuff. I'll start with some recent figurative work.

Apologies for the terrible photos. . .