8/50 Paintings in 50 Days! - Fire Sorcerer Miniature

"Fire Sorcerer" - Acrylic paint on 25mm Reaper Miniature sculpted by Bob Ridolifi

 

Fire_sorcorer

Some of you may not know this but I am a Gamer Nerd. I love RPG's and one of my "artist hobbies" is painting miniatures for fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder.

My friend commissioned me to paint his Pathfinder character's mini and so I'm counting it as 8/50 of my paintings since I never made any rules about the paintings being all two-dimensional. The description I was given for painting this guy was "very white skin, tribal tatoos on his face, and he should look like he's engulfed in flames."  Since the sculpt is actually for a wraithlike ghost and not flames persay I had to improvise a little bit by letting the colors tell the story rather then the miniature.

The cool part of doing this was after tweeting the Progress picture on Twitter I actually got commissioned to paint another mini by one of my Twitter followers! How cool is that? Gotta love teh interwebs!

 

Filed under  //   25mm   D&D   Dungeons & Dragons   Fire Sorcerer   Mini   Miniature   Pathfinder   Reaper Mini   commissioned   elemental bloodline   fire   flames   painting  
Posted January 11, 2012
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3/50 Paintings in 50 Days - Ocean of Clouds

Allowing the process to unfold is a huge part of overcoming Artistic block.  There are so many opportunities to be self-critical and for me an excuse to back out.  The 50 Days project is perfect because it forces me to do the work regardless of the outcome. I have to ignore the snide comments in my head as my inner critic tells me I am a hack.  

There was once a time when I even had to create an alter ego in order to create art.  I assigned all the bad paintings to the alter ego.  

Here's the 4th painting in my 50 paintings in 50 days challenge.

"Ocean of Clouds" - Watercolor and Gouache on paper - 15" x 11"

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Ocean of Clouds (c) 2012 Shoshanna Bauer All Rights Reserved

 

Filed under  //   Blue   clouds   green   landscape   ocean   painting   sea   sky   skyscapes   water   watercolor  
Posted January 5, 2012
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I've started working in encaustic painting!

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I've been in Creative Mode recently.  I bought some shelving that could also become a work bench/desk for my studio. Last time I wrote about the Gouache paints  I bought.  This time I wanted to share with you a sneak peak of my Encaustic paintings.  Recently I was able to go to a fellow artist Toni Putnam's studio and get a feel for painting with wax to see if I even liked it.  As you can see it left quite an impression on me.  I've done three paintings with the wax and oil pastels so far and I am in love.  

It's taking a little while to get used to a completely different medium and I'm reminded of why I started Watercolor in the first place.

  • I'm an extremely impatient person.  I like it to be dry, now.  I like it to look good, now. I don't like to wait for things to dry, cool or cure.
  • I am a perfectionist when it comes to my work.  If it isn't perfect I will work it till it is.  With a medium such as oil, acrylic or encaustic I am able to go over a painting again and again, scraping away what I don't like and putting back in what I want. This makes for a very very long process.  With watercolor I HAVE to stop, or I will over work the piece.  I suppose this sort of painting is similar but instead of losing whites (as in watercolor) I can overwork a painting to the point it's fussy and stiff.
  • Lastly, I am very messy when I work.  Watercolor cleans up nicely. I might get some salt on the floor of the studio but big whoop.  I spill hot wax on my husband's 2005 Championship, Illini basketball sweatshirt and it's a different story. (I got it out by the way with a soft paper towel and an iron).

So aside from those things I still love the encaustic's  and it won't hurt me to try to learn to be patient, forgiving and neat.  hehe.

Filed under  //   Encaustic   clean   dandelions   impatient   landscape   messy   painting   studio   watercolor   wax  
Posted May 13, 2010
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My first Video post!- Painting Demo

Today I was thinking about painting and happened to be goofing off on Twitter and I saw one of my twitter buddies @ElizabethPW tweet about doing something you were previously afraid of.  For me it was anything to do with videoblogging my art. Well....actually anything to do with videoblogging in general.  But I decided what the heck.  The worst thing that can happen is I make a piece of junk nobody watches.  But odds are they will at least watch this one because it's my first.

So here goes me...conquering fears and showing you how I work.
Any feedback is appreciated even if you think the video is bad.  I can only get better from here on out.

Filed under  //   painting   video   videoblog   watercolor demo   watercolor painting  
Posted January 12, 2010
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Super Nova

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Exploding star
Brilliant
Light years Away


In the past I have challenged myself to try and paint 50 paintings in 50 days.  The best I've managed to do is 30 paintings in 50 days.  So in order to try and set a more realistic goal this time, I've decided to shoot for 30/30.  I hope to post each painting and list them for sale on my website with open edition prints available on Imagekind.com.  If you are a fellow creative and would like to join in on the challenge please let me know! 

Just a little info about the inspiration behind this piece:

This week I was reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle to my 10 year old daughter.  For those not in the know, this is a science fiction series of novels for young adults.  In the book the three protagonists in the story seek to rescue a father from the grip of a "Dark Planet" by time traveling through space.  Something is mentioned about how a star can give it's life in order to beat the darkness away.   I was able to see the dying star exploding with Light and I remembered a conversation I had where someone told me "Light can take away Darkness...but Darkness can take away no Light." 

Please feel free to comment I'd love to hear your thoughts!

 

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Super Nova (c) 2009 Shoshanna Bauer All Rights Reserved

 

Filed under  //   Universe   abstract   art   celestial   contemporary   exploding   expressionism   multicolored   painting   skyscapes   space   star   watercolor  
Posted December 29, 2009
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Wishing for Sun

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Ending blooms
before the seed seek
just a taste of sun


The reason behind this painting stems from the fact that I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. I had been cooped up in the house during a long gray and rainy week and it was my birthday. I only wanted the sun to peek out and shed some rays on my dampened spirit. I gave up and finally painted myself some sunshine. All the other dandelions in the painting are going to seed. When I was a kid blowing on dandelions granted wishes...The one lonely light green dandelion in the middle signifies the desire to fight the blues while "Wishing for Sun".

Wishing for Sun (c) 2009 Shoshanna Bauer All rights Reserved

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Filed under  //   SAD   Sun   abstract   art   contemporary   dandelion   expressionism   green   landscape   melancholy   painting   seed   watercolor   winter blues   wishes   yellow  
Posted November 19, 2009
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