Anatomy Thread of Rebecca Kimmel

#901

having fun I see :slight_smile: I like Scott’s airbrushing technique though I must confess I lack the patience hehe :thumbsup:

#902

Very nice start on polypainting. I haven’t had a chance to try out that method yet.

#903

Hey there…

hope you had a nice summer!
It’s awefully quiet here though :wink:

How’s the sculpting going?
(just putting your sb on the front page in the list, where it belongs… )

#904

Hey Rebecca

Nice…

I like how you have tried to create some sort of blood system on them.
Like the veins and the pigmiented skin.

Also the fact that they quiet diffrent form each other, you didn’t carry anything over.
hmmmm… could sit all night and analize them.

Like it alot!

:smiley:

#905

Hi Rebecca! How are you doing? I was just now drooling at the recent posts in your teaching blog- especially the one dated Sept. 30th.:drool: Any updates on the ZSculpting?

#906

Hi folks,

Sorry to have been so awol! :slight_smile: I’ve posted a new thread here which I would be happy if you took a look at. Let me know what you think! :slight_smile:

Wrapping Up A Year of Teaching & Art

Cheers,

-R

#907

hey rebecca!

i see you’re playing with z-brush a little bit :slight_smile: really nice in deed :wink: i like last monster

i wish u a creative new year 2009!

cheers :slight_smile:

#908

Some recent experiments, traditional oil studies tweaked in PS with photo textures applied - the photos were ones that I took recently.

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selphoo, thanks and Happy New Year to you too. :slight_smile:

-R
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#909

Hi Rebecca,
beautiful recent experiments!
(reminds me, very slightly, of amazing work of Dave McKean, which I love)
and - a little bit late - wish you all the best for 2009!

p.s. - and - want to thank you for including my work into your new Forum Blog, thanks, Rebecca!

#910

Thanks Alenah, you’re welcome and I’m glad you found the blog. :slight_smile: Happy New Year as well.

Another experiment, using an older sketch:

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#911

some very nice, one would say, almost creepy, works there, Rebecca, is that your dark side coming out? :twisted:
excellent artworks…

kris

#912

hi there,

texture overlays start to look Kimmel-esque to me in general…:smiley:

Question: how do you scan your oil studies? Doesn’t it take a very long time for them to dry enough so they don’t leave colour spots on the scanner?

#913

Hey Rebecca!! Great to see your posts again!:bounce: Beautiful images, needless to say! Do you have the original oils posted anywhere?
Have an awesome and creative year ahead!!:scream: … and thanks for the new blog … really cool! :thumbsup:

#914

Lol now you got me creating a blog too… just to be able to follow yours :stuck_out_tongue:
Excellent idea btw to have a spotlight blog for the Anatomy Forum.
I feel very small among these talented artists so thanks for that!
It works very stimulating I must say :smiley:

I really like the bright orange-red portrait… looks very serene even though the colors are quite vibrant. The boxer on your portfolio is also one of my favs.

Take care

#915

[left]krispee, thanks! Wha?? Dark? But all I see is flowers and bunnies. :shrug: :wink:

Mu, haha…scanning was easy since these were painted on canvas paper approx 8.5 x 11", and I just let them dry over the break. They likely dried in a couple of days, it just depends on how thick the paint is.

anandpg, thanks! Always good to see you around. :slight_smile: Happy New Year to you as well. If the traditional paintings had been worth posting, I would have posted them haha. :smiley:

NR43, thanks - great to see your kids’ blog, very cute! :slight_smile: Glad you like the blog.

Went landscape painting with friends today and did a hideously ugly painting in gouache which I painted up in Photoshop. (I seriously hate the term “plein aire” as it’s way too pretentious for what amounts to either freezing your arse off or burning up outside while whacking a hapless canvas. It’s just painting outside - landscape painting). :wink:

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#916

Hehehe!! :scream: true, true! But it’s kinda fun, isn’t it? I wanted to go out painting this weekend, but my friends are out of town. Nice landscape, Rebecca!:thumbsup: … love your technique!

#917

Thanks Anand. I’d love to see your landscape studies when you do go. :slight_smile:

Surprisingly, I’m actually really coming to like gouache. Here’s a quickie study, partly from imagination, partly loosely based off of a figure drawing I did earlier:

#918

I do SEE a bunny just behind that dark foreboding background! And it’s chewing ona flower! JK. :slight_smile:
Hey Rebecca, That’s one heck of a ZB bust. The texture experiments are cool. I love textures. Have to sit down and learn that aspect of 3D well once and for all. Your posts and replies as you work and learn ZB are going to be invaluable to me, the day…um…far far away…I crack open that software.

Paintings: Once again love textures, so great interest in the direction you’re taking, here. The gouache painting has some lovely color harmonies. The darks are rich. Really like it. I’ve always liked watercolors, but never explored gouache, which seems like it can be a sensitive medium for fine studies, even master copies. I so look forward to the time, I can set up and explore for hours. I’ve seen Steve Huston’s gouche SB and they are INcreDiBle!
How does vous approach it? For example, the process in this painting?

#919

the interesting thing is that there’s not really a term for plein air in german. I have heard of the same phrase, but actually most people wouldn’t actually bother to put people who paint outside in a separate drawer, apart from other painting activities.

Mais, it sounds so much artyfartier, doesn’t it ma chère?

:smiley:

I love that abstract landscape with the vibrant colours! It’s interesting that the parts where I see the most distinct forms are all back in the distance. I can’t decide if it looks like tree trunks deliberately put there or if it turned out the right way while the colour was pulled down by gravity. That’s another thing - doesn’t the running colour get on your nerves, somehow? I always hated that aspect about watercolour - that’s why I always had the paper fixed totally even.

Looking forward to more traditional and mixed up stuff. Looking really juicy! Yummy.

#920

I always like seeing your experimental work. I image them as stills of dreams.

Yeah, Plein Air, a sweet name for eco-challenge painting, at times. :smiley: At times I’d call it ‘painting with mosquitoes’–mosquitoes–meaning any open-air annoyance. :argh:

Nice gouache study. Gouache is a great illustration medium. I used it extensively for its range going from watercolor wash to heavy opaque applications.

The question was asked about oil drying. I used Cobalt Dryer in my oil work. It would dry a light painting for a second session in a few hours. I’ve had palettes dry to a gluey mess in an hour. I kind of over used the dryer a bit :smiley: to get illustration work out the door quickly. Over use of Cobalt dryer will damage a painting. It’s also highly toxic, as are some of the paints, such as some of the cadmium and cobalt paints–to a lesser degree.