Heineken commission

It’s been a slow start on this one. When I was asked to do this commission, I had no idea how elaborate the Heineken logo was. In my mind it was just a green can, with the “Heineken” word mark running vertically. HOw hard could that be? Well when I when to the beer store to buy a can the reality hit me. As you could tell I don’t drink that often so to see this logo threw me back a bit. So the difficulty of portraying this and a winter cold threw me off. Hopefully I’ll finish it in the next month. Fortunately my client is not in a big rush to get this, but it’d be nice to get it done and get paid for it.

WIP

Starting a little study of an old school pencil sharpener. I’m at a point in my painting process where I want to challenge myself with each painting.

Easter weekend productivity

Productivity is something that either is top most on my mind or underlies everything else I do. It comes from pursuing this art track later in my life and thinking I have to get all the bad paintings out of my system before I get to the good ones. So this long Easter holiday weekend, I’m two paintings closer in getting to the good stuff. I also felt I needed to be a bit faster and looser with these two paintings since I spent so much time on my commission. It felt good just to produce and have a bit of fun (especially with my self portrait).

The weekend’s not over, so there’s more time to pump stuff out! Back to work!

French's Mustard, Done!

Done and done. I’m happy with how this little commission turned out. However, my hairline receded a quarter inch after finishing the lettering.

French's Mustard

I’m currently working on a small commission. Here’s a WIP of the painting. It’s nice to return to a subject matter and see things in a different manner from the first time I painted it.