I'm Kenney Mencher. I'm an artist who left a tenured professorship in 2016 to pursue making art full time. This blog is about art, art history, with a emphasis on human rights. I make homoerotic art featuring bears, otters & other gay wildlife.
Showing posts with label painting tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting tutorial. Show all posts
Friday
Tuesday
Almost finished with the portrait commission
Here's how it looks so far (The legs are not finished) :
Here's the step by step how I got here:
More info at:
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
More "How to" Articles and Tutorials
- Demonstration Drawing the Sphere
- Demonstration Drawing the Cube
- Demonstration Video: How to Paint the Shapes Monochromatically
How to draw a portrait
- Demonstration Video: How to draw the head in pencil
- Demonstration Video: Sketching the Head and Face in wash media
- Demonstration Single Portrait (Joy Anne Delight))
- Demo Portraits (Two Figures)Demonstration: How I make a painting (In Martini Vertas)
- Demonstration: How I make a painting (Hat in Hand)
- Demonstration: How I revise and work out problems in my paintings.
- Demonstration: How I make a painting "Buoy"
Wednesday
Demonstration. A step by step visual of how I make a painting. Buoy oil on canvas 36"x48"
This is post relates to an earlier post I put up a while ago on how I paint a glass of water. Here is a painting I did a year or two ago that is part of my series of "glass of water paintings."
First step for me was to lay out the drawing of the image with a charcoal pencil on this large canvas.
I then painted everything in roughly in acrylic paint with white acrylic gesso as the white paint. I always paint background to foreground if I can. Sometimes I need to paint the whole thing at a time but I find I get nicer edges if I think back to front.
After painting the background and the table and glass in acrylic, I switched to oil paint. I use the same palette of colors in acrylic that I use in oil paint. With oil paint I also make sure that I premix large batches of colors so that they are more or less consistent in terms of hue and value structure (shading.) Go to this link to see detailed step by step of how I painted a clear vessel of water. It's the glass in this painting.
With the glass of water done I move on to paint the shirts in oil too. I can see how it might look a little paint by numbers here but in this case, I premixed and painted each section individually so that the shirt parts would remain consistent.
Letting the wet paint dry before I move on to the faces.
I do not underpaint the faces in acrylic. For faces I paint directly in oil. I have a really in depth article on color mixing and portrait painting on my site if you want to know my method for painting portraits and my color scheme for portrait painting.
Buoy oil on canvas 36"x48"
More "How to" Articles and Tutorials
- Demonstration Drawing the Sphere
- Demonstration Drawing the Cube
- Demonstration Video: How to Paint the Shapes Monochromatically
How to draw a portrait
- Demonstration Video: How to draw the head in pencil
- Demonstration Video: Sketching the Head and Face in wash media
- Demonstration Single Portrait (Joy Anne Delight))
- Demo Portraits (Two Figures)
- Demonstration: How I make a painting (In Martini Vertas)
- Demonstration: How I make a painting (Hat in Hand)
- Demonstration: How I revise and work out problems in my paintings.
- Demonstration: How I make a painting "Buoy"
| Renovated Reputations: A Collaborative Installation
of Paintings, Fiction, Music and Vintage Furniture
by Kenney Mencher, Patrick Nelson and others at: The Art Museum of Los Gatos, California 4 Tait Ave Los Gatos, CA 95030 December 1 - January 6 Reception: Saturday December 3, 2011 5PM-8PM Show up in costume and get into the photobooth! You may end up being my next painting! Price: FREE Phone: (408) 395-7386 The Art Museum of Los Gatos presents Renovated Reputations, an immersive exhibition experience featuring works conceived as a collaboration in painting, creative fiction, and design. At once noir, bohemian and pulp in style, the works invite the viewer to step inside and sit awhile, discover their stories and spark engagement. More info at: http://www.kenney-mencher.com/ |
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Thursday
A Painting in Progress: "Buzz and Sadie Word" oil and mixed media 16"x20"
More "How to" Articles and Tutorials
- Demonstration Drawing the Sphere
- Demonstration Drawing the Cube
- Demonstration Video: How to Paint the Shapes Monochromatically
- How to draw a portrait
- Demonstration Video: How to draw the head in pencil
- Demonstration Video: Sketching the Head and Face in wash media
- Demonstration Single Portrait (Joy Anne Delight))
- Demo Portraits (Two Figures)
- Demonstration: How I make a painting (In Martini Vertas)
- Demonstration: How I make a painting (Hat in Hand)
- Demonstration: How I revise and work out problems in my paintings.
- Demonstration: How I make a painting "Buoy"
Upcoming shows:
Art Museum of Los Gatos, California
Saturday December 3, 2011
5PM-8PM Show up in costume and get into the photobooth! You may end up being my next painting!
January 2012
Santa Clara College, California
February 2012
Ohlone College, Fremont California
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento California
Art Museum of Los Gatos, California
Saturday December 3, 2011
5PM-8PM Show up in costume and get into the photobooth! You may end up being my next painting!
January 2012
Santa Clara College, California
February 2012
Ohlone College, Fremont California
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento California
Win one of my watercolors or drawings! Visit my web site and click on one of the contests for details!
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
Saturday
My Use and Abuse of Photo Reference
People always ask me if I work from photos. I sure do. I've actually had to develop my skills as a photographer but it also helps to look at the pictures in Photoshop on the computer screen. Here's my painting called "It is What it Is" oil on canvas 36"x48"
Here are some of the reference photos I used.
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Similar blog posts about technique and the use and misuse of art history:
Similar blog posts about technique and the use and misuse of art history:
- Rembrandt, Self Portraits and Me
- Rembrandt, Matisse and Me
- Henri Matisse and Me
- Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Selavy, Mona Lisa, and Me
- Giacomo Balla and Me
- John Singer Sargent, Caravaggio and Me
- Velasquez and Cherise
- N.C. Wyeth, Chuck and Me
- Me and Hopper: A Certain Slant of Light
- My Use and Abuse of Photo Reference
- Themes in Art; Sequential Art
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