Drawing on a Tablet

I have been (re)learning how to paint on my tablet using the Autodesk app.  Here are a few paintings from a recent trip to California.

The California Hills

Jetblue Wild Card Game

Night Painting

A Flower

B 4 BED

On the Phone

Shadows with Pillow

Guitar painting - work in progress

Starting off my 2nd and last year of grad school by moving into a new studio.  This is the first painting I've done in oil in a while and it's also the first painting in my new studio.  Here are some progress shots.  The final one to follow.  

                                         

Williamsburg Now

a digital collage from this week near one of the many construction sites in Williamsburg Brooklyn 

shots of brooklyn and the delaware river gap from this spring

These are all 35mm film photos from this spring.  I have been nurturing a compulsive photography habit this past year and things have set off this past month with the weather changing and the plants and trees starting to bloom.  

COMPOSITE IMAGE

I've been working on the computer making some digital collages.  I still haven't gotten it down the way I want to get it but I am getting a bit closer.  Here is an example from my tiny NYC kitchen.

kitchen collage 2017

Progress shots from the studio

Progress shots of a painting I'm working on in the studio this weekend.

This painting is about 18 x 30 inches on gessoed cardboard 

Progress shots in the studio

Progress shots in the studio for a new painting.  This 1 and a few photographs will be on display tomorrow at this show!  Come check it out 6 - 8 pm.

almost finished in the studio 

little subtle changes

underpainting

Study for a Sculpture

February 2016

Study for a Sculpture

18 x 24 inches on paper

Figure drawing

Figure drawings from the drink and draw hosted at Bathaus Coworking Space in Bushwick Brooklyn.  This drawing session is hosted like a typical figure drawing session with 30 second poses, 1 minute poses, 5 minute, 10 minute, and culminating with three 20 minute long poses.  

5 minute drawing

1 minute drawing

1 minute drawing

10 minute drawing

20 minute drawing

Night scene

Night Scene

gouache on paper

11 x 14 inches

Studio time

I'm happy to be in the studio these past few weeks working on xerox paintings, water colors, and even some glass paintings.  I've had a lot of time lately and it's given me an opportunity to explore a lot ideas that have been stewing for awhile.

xerox transfer and paint on canvas board

xerox tranfer and paint on wood board

xerox tranfer and paint on wood

the studio in the Folwer Arts Collective

mixed media xerox transfer on paper board

"1 shot" paint on glass.  I did this one with a quill painting on the back of the glass.  I've never done anything quite like this but I'm really happy with how it came out.  I love the design that book ends the skull,

and the travel continues. . .

I spent the first part of the week in Aspen painting a mural for the Food and Wine Festival.  More travel means more photographs and more sketchbook drawings.  I've decided to intersperse them here.  The sketches are small, and the photographs are from disposable cameras.  I've been that guy this year.

a drink

eyes

this dog ran right over to me and sat down in the river

hands

hike

ray

working on the mural we painted

summer party

all photos and drawings Thomas Hemmerick (c) 2014