Good afternoon, visitors!
I just wanted to share a couple pieces that I recently (today at around 8:00am) finished. Only one was sent off to the 2016 Akron Art Prize. Deadlines can be oh so fun to meet. Anyways, Elijah was the one that was entered and the other portrait is a revisit of a previous acrylic of the same subject painted back in 2013.
Thanks again for looking. Check back soon for more updates.
-Kit Palencar
Good evening, visitors!
Just a quick update of a couple new things I'm working on. One is a larger 24" x 48" portrait of an old friend of mine; Eli. The next is a smaller 12" x 12" study of an old man my dad had photographed back in the day.
Thanks for checking in as always.
Good Evening!
After a long hiatus from updating my website (Terribly sorry), I posted some new work up. Four new paintings in total and three of them were entered into the 2016 Waterloo Arts Fest Juried Exhibition with the wonderful Rob Lehr as the juror.
Head to the "Paintings" tab to see the new pieces and view my Instagram to see how these pieces came to be.
Thank you!
-Kit Palencar
Good evening, all!
Just a quick update on this piece. After rendering out the eyes completely, (even more than pictured) I found myself getting caught up too much in the detail. I stepped back and evaluated the lighting, and then simplified the eyes into simple shapes with some slight definition that I can pull lights out from at a later stage.
As an artist, training the eye to look for shapes found within the form can be very beneficial to simplifying the figure, and then looking with a keener eye to establish details.
I also find that applying a neutral background in while working on the figure helps the eye to look for local color changes in the portrait. It is much easier to decide what is too dark, what's too light, what is too punchy, and what's too soft.
Here are some more in-progress shots.
