Christmas in July

I haven't posted any of my real art lately, just face painting stuff. So here's a sample of what I'm starting to get together for my table at Noel Night this year. I plan on doing face painting and also selling some Christmas themed paper goods. Santa is my first experiment. There's still much tweaking to be done with just this guy! I have so much  more to do. Getting a head start now is probably the only way I'll ever have it done in time for December.

I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with using Illustrator or try using some gouache. I don't have too much experience with character development, I tend to draw things realistically. So this is a good challenge for me.

Face Paint

So I'm advertising as a face painter for my summer side job. Last summer, I worked at Cedar Point during Labor Day Weekend as a face painter and realized it was something I enjoyed doing that I could work with more this summer. I've been advertising on Craigslist and have gotten a good amount of responses. I finally have some examples of my work to show potential clients, so hopefully this will help business a little more.

Here's a few:

New painting!

(unfinished)

I can't seem to get enough of painting pretty faces.

This time I'm experimenting on a new surface- plexiglass.

I painted the face on the front, and the orange background was painted from behind. Next I want to put the painting up against different found patterns and backgrounds. It's versatile in that way, you can change the painting just by placing something different behind the glass.

David Downton

David Downton is amazing. He did the cover for "100 Years of Fashion Illustration" (which I've wanted to get my hands on for a couple years... I should really get on that).

I'm so inspired right now.

This is the sort of thing that makes me certain that I'm meant for fashion illustration. I love it so much.