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I’ve had a few things come up so updates temporarily slowed down a little. These are little studies I do from photographs (mainly national geographic) for colour and painting practice. Each of these is about 25% of original size.

Time for some art!

This is a paint study I did using a national geographic photo as reference. As you can tell I really like jungles, but this one was mainly done to study atmosphere. I find these can also help with finding new painting techniques, and of course better understanding of subject.

Have to keep my blog updated and strive to make it interesting to visit; hence forth I will be posting doodles and general stuff I do (like paint studies)! So today I’ll get the ball rolling with a jungle paint study I did. Started off with a reference photo, though I got carried away a bit. Few hours, photoshop, used ref. (click to enlarge)

I do these to study different subject matter, try new colour pallets and also test my painting techniques. Hope you like it .