tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34063414204254067552024-03-14T08:53:49.317-07:00Scribbly DoodadsJamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-27028503532848210742012-05-01T14:05:00.000-07:002012-05-01T14:14:30.926-07:00My Goodness My Gouache!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Top - View from Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Oakland</div>
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Bottom - Bellevue-Staten, Lake Merritt, Oakland</div>
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After seeing some gouache landscape studies in Jason Merck's portfolio last semester, I realized that perhaps my initial evaluation of the medium - that it was the Devil's vividly colored excrement - deserved to be reconsidered.</div>
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So I bought an airtight watercolor palette, a new Moleskine and set off - and holy smoke, was I wrong! It's a bit fiddly, but not nearly as much as painting in oils (not to mention lugging around that bloody easel). Once the colors are squeezed out on the palette, the whole kit is about as heavy as my camera! I think I'm in love.<br />
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The paint does lose its buttery consistency once it dries (which it manages to do after a week or two in the palette), but gently reconstituting it with an eyedropper of water seems to make it sufficiently usable again - not the same, but usable. Anyway, here are my first two efforts - definitely more to come once the semester ends.Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-87962343656736619162012-01-17T00:16:00.000-08:002012-01-17T00:33:00.532-08:00Back to the drawing board<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I haven't posted anything of the more scribbly nature in a while, and because nobody would ever visit a blog with a crap name like Painterly Doodads, I have to correct this sharpish-like.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ok, ok, so it's still sort of painted - baby steps, James, baby steps. </span></div>
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Here's a couple heads I collected while I was waiting in Peets for the Volvo mechanic to calculate how much he'd need for the downpayment on his next yacht. </div>
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<br />Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-59958122731422201012012-01-10T14:35:00.000-08:002012-01-10T14:35:14.349-08:00The good, the bad, the ugly - Quick Studies megapost!NY resolution numero uno - post more.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the spirit of good habits, here's a selection of the 60 or so paintings I completed last semester in a bid to liberate myself from the shackles of pedantic painting. Time range was between 25 minutes and a couple hours. Not all are winners, but each was a lesson well learned.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Egad! It's been too long between posts... again... but school and Hawaii wait for no-one. Speaking of which, here are a couple watercolor sketches I made while visiting the garden island of Kauai for my lovely sister-in-law Erica and new bruv Mike's wedding. The top one is apparently the beach where they filmed the opening sequence to "Gilligan's Island"!<br />
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<br />Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-35820942016002079862011-08-30T14:10:00.000-07:002011-08-30T16:52:14.762-07:00"Quick" oil studies - Yosemite triptychIn preparation for my first painting class in 18 months (wtf?), here are 3 oil studies of Yosemite, taken from the last time I was at the park. Feels good to get back on the oily horse.<br />
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First 2 are 90 minutes, the last blew out to about 2.5 hours because I got distracted by my medieval murder mystery audiobook, The Tainted Relic. It's all Friar this and Brother that, so I had to pause every once in a while to figure out who was killing who.<br />
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Suffice to say, gotta pull my socks up.Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-56098370689309145372011-08-26T10:59:00.000-07:002011-08-26T11:02:30.614-07:00"No Swimming"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7u8AM9CxGIghr-RHRy0x7IJgFujsYpz23rB9wlc9PyQPjyWwhF-d3tyCeUiGMbGHFsxErSF-9yduoL85MVolA-MXeiwlbwMXlx_GhCFnQkbNjitCufRHYfnZBr1j3Bztff7-JgdeSW0/s1600/bayviewlandscape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7u8AM9CxGIghr-RHRy0x7IJgFujsYpz23rB9wlc9PyQPjyWwhF-d3tyCeUiGMbGHFsxErSF-9yduoL85MVolA-MXeiwlbwMXlx_GhCFnQkbNjitCufRHYfnZBr1j3Bztff7-JgdeSW0/s400/bayviewlandscape.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Had a midweek plein air jaunt with <a href="http://adamcejaart.blogspot.com/">Adam Ceja</a> at possibly the most inconveniently situated park in America. It's basically a nature strip set in the massive truck parking lot that is the Port of Oakland, with a beach that - as indicated above - is strictly ornamental.<br />
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Didn't those smelly truckers looked PISSED about it as well... or maybe they always look like that.<br />
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This was a piece inspired by a mythology class I recently took with the truly awesome John Dobson. It's based on the primary male archetypes - knight, king, troubadour and mage - that constitute elements of the male personality. Here we see my book nerd mage dropping knowledge (geddit?) on the less dominant elements. Ahem.Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-29754124722721817692011-08-08T13:55:00.000-07:002011-08-10T13:49:36.872-07:00Patagonian Sloth Badger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Iguanalope also happens to serve as the PSB's chief food source (besides rocks), but due to the badger's glacial speed, height disadvantage and downward-facing incisors, it has devised an ingenious - but often fatal - hunting strategy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Lying prostrate on its back, the PSB plays dead and waits for its prey to approach and become distracted with eating through the badger's tough belly skin. If the Iguanalope is a slow eater - the badger attacks!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div>Stopped by Lake Merritt on my way home yesterday and knocked out a quick sketch of a plump member of our local flying cattle herd. This is actually a composite of a number of geese, as none of the buggers was prepared to sit still.<br />
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I should definitely do this more often.Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-33166510764758821862011-06-30T10:47:00.000-07:002011-06-30T10:59:49.031-07:00Oak Ness MonsterI recently contributed a concept to the inimitable Dara Kerr's last article at Oakland North, which investigates the beast that lurks beneath the shallow depths of Oakland's Lake Merritt. I figured it would be apt to include a small tribute to the scores of gondoliers who have lost their lives to this carrion-breathed menace.<br />
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You can read more here: <a href="http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/06/22/is-there-a-monster-in-lake-merritt-scientist-says-yes/">http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/06/22/is-there-a-monster-in-lake-merritt-scientist-says-yes/</a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am SLOOOOOOWLY teaching myself landscape painting - these are paintings #4 and #3 (some random spot in the Oakland Hills and Ragle Park, Sebastopol, respectively), about ONE YEAR APART. Jeez. Hopefully I'll knock out a few more studies before the summer is through - I wonder if there's an easy way to cart an easel around on your bike? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Black Market Benny was a short-lived character who arrived, like most dealers, to fill a void. His stock in trade, diacritical Latin alphabet letters, proved hugely popular with the immigrant community of Sesame Street, who had been underserved for so long by the show's Anglo-centric programming. It didn't take long, however, for Benny's activities to draw the attention of the League of Republican Mothers, who reported him to the IRS. Benny is eligible for parole in 2014.</div>Jamie Chreszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735224612708260966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406341420425406755.post-31094447533205913212011-06-14T01:04:00.000-07:002011-06-14T09:37:05.955-07:00Ramona the Happy Hooker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My contribution to Adam Ceja's painting challenge for 'failed Sesame Street characters'. This one's called Ramona the Happy Hooker. You can see more over @ <a href="http://paintboxbuffet.blogspot.com/">paintboxbuffet.blogspot.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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A self-portrait to kick things off: "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Roo" (apologies to Joyce)<br />
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