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Through Mists

Posted on August 2, 2016 Leave a Comment

I spent the night trying to get my scanner to work with my laptop. Since upgrading past OSX Snow Leopard (quite a few years ago now), the Epson-provided scanner software stopped working for me. Epson provided drivers to work with the inbuilt Image Capture software, but I discovered that the RGB channels would be misaligned. Finding this unsatisfactory, I experimented with different drivers and software, and somehow broke the Image Capture compatibility – although the software recognised the scanner it would sit indefinitely waiting for the scanner to respond.

A few days ago I noticed Epson had released new drivers so I was hopeful that they would work. Unfortunately, that proved not to be the case. I dug through all the old driver files, manually deleted as much as I could find, reset all printer/scanner settings (that’s quite sad actually as I have a bunch of printer presets lost now), reinstalled the full 2GB bundle of drivers for all Epson products, purged VueScan from my system, turned my computer off and on again and finally, somehow, the scanner is back to mostly working in the buggy way it did three years ago.

Having to fix the channels in Photoshop is less inconvenient than having to boot up an entirely separate machine just to scan documents, so I guess I’ll live with it for now. Not being able to easily scan documents is one of the reasons why I’ve been less prolific outside of Facebook/Twitter, where I’ve been taking photos of my finished pieces with some “artfully” thrown in paintbrushes and pencils to embellish the scene. So hopefully with an easier access to scanning I can share a bit more art here.

Anyway I can’t go another blog post without posting a bit of art, so here’s a painting inspired by a photo of a friend. The original photo included a lot of fog and interesting lighting effects, in the end this painting kind of took its own path.

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Shown above is a photo of the WIP, taken just before I started painting. I initially struggled to draw this as a realistic rendering, but ultimately decided to just draw a figure posed the same as the reference photo instead.

When it came time to painting it I was almost going to go for full colour but early into the painting process the pink started to emerge as a highlight colour throughout the piece so I refrained from including other colours.

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, calavera, ink, portrait, watercolor, watercolour

Digimon 3DS XL Cover Plates

Posted on October 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I completed this cover plate commission about a month ago. It’s a hand-painted shell cover for the new 3DS XL. The shell is primed with a gesso that allows me to paint it with watercolour paints, and the completed design is sealed with a spray varnish.

Email me at ale@chenonetta.com if you’re interested in getting your own cover plate commission. Commissions take a month or two to complete (depending on whether I have appropriate cover plates on hand). Prices start from ~$80 AUD if you can supply your own cover plates.

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: 3ds, agumon, cover plate, digimon, gabumon, metalgarurumon, watercolour, weregreymon

Digimon 3DS Cover Plates

Posted on August 31, 2015 Leave a Comment

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You may remember the watercolour 3DS cover plates that I posted a while ago. While at AVCon I had them displayed at my art table. Lots of people were interested in having their own custom plates created, but they didn’t own the new 3DS.

So I had a look around and found some cover shells that I could prime and paint. Here’s one of my commissions in progress, custom cover shells for the new 3DS XL. The client asked for a design featuring Agumon, Gabumon and their warp evolutions. I initially had the rookie classes appearing on the top plate, then I realised it would make more sense to put their Mega forms in the background. It meant I could fit the crests in there too.

Next step is to get the paint on these! A little nerve-wracking, to be honest, but the primed watercolour-ground surface tends to be quite forgiving.

My commission queue is currently full, but if you would like your own customised 3DS cover plate you can email me at ale@chenonetta.com for more details!

Posted in: Watercolours, WIP | Tagged: 3ds, agumon, blaugust, cover plate, digimon, digimon adventures, gabumon, made by me, metalgarurumon, wargreymon, warp evolve, watercolour

Horned Owl

Posted on August 30, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Having a little bit of trouble with the colours on these tonight, as the lights in our living room are now emitting a rather yellow glow. Its having quite an effect on the colours I’m perceiving as I paint. In the end I decided to chuck a lot of black in there to make some very contrasting shadows.

Posted in: Lasering, Watercolours | Tagged: bird, blaugust, brooch, made by me, owl, watercolour

A bird in hand.

Posted on August 29, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Today’s piece is based on a cardinal. I also experimented with etching some linework for the feathers and other features.

Posted in: Lasering, Watercolours | Tagged: bird, blaugust, brooch, cardinal, made by me, watercolour

Autumn Trees

Posted on August 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Some practice at dropping yellow/orange mixes of paint into various wet washes of blue. The aim was to preserve the golden colour without creating a green or brown mix.

I think the most successful one is the second down on the right. There’s a nice mix of implied form of the leaves and the defined branches. The sky blue is also a nicely balanced tone.

I really need to get my scanner back up and running at some point, it’s hard to get all the detail from these kinds of paintings across in a photo. Just need to find an old install of the Epson scan software…

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: autumn, blaugust, fall, made by me, trees, watercolour

Watercolour Fox Badges

Posted on August 26, 2015 Leave a Comment

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More experiments in lasers + watercolours. I’d planned to create something based on the bird sketches I shared the other day, but I’ve been having a lot of trouble doing the vector traceovers for them. This fox design I sketched yesterday has been much easier to work with.

I need to refine my painting work a bit, I think, but I’m very much looking forward to working on a variety of designs like this.

PS. I need a better name for these than badges or charms, any ideas?

Posted in: Lasering, Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, fox, galaxy, made by me, stars, watercolour

Sandshrew, Breloom and Goodra

Posted on August 15, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I drew these guys while attending Adelaide’s Pokémon VGC event! Sandshrew was drawn as part of a Reddit collab where each artist would draw one Pokémon. You can check out the full album of art here!

 

 

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, breloom, goodra, made by me, pokemon, sandshrew, watercolour

Watercolour Wiimote Cover – Lucina

Posted on August 14, 2015 Leave a Comment

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This custom Wii Remote cover features Lucina. The technique I used to paint it was the same as the Splatoon covers I shared last week. In my pictures today I show the considerations I make about the inclusion of the sloped sides of the cover. I try to keep detail out of the sides and all of the main features to the middle.

I also painted a cover featuring the Kanto Starters, but it looks like I sold it without taking a photo first! So I’m down one post for the upcoming Pokemon Week. It’ll probably be a mix of Pokemon and miscellany 🙂

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, fire emblem, lucina, made by me, smash bros, watercolour

Ness and Lucas

Posted on August 11, 2015 Leave a Comment

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A pair of Psi-kids!

The background for this one ended up as a happy accident with the green gradient turning into purple by the bottom of the piece.

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Also, I had a phone case with the design printed on it, I think it works quite well for the size and shape of the piece.

 

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, earthbound, lucas, made by me, mother, ness, pk flash, smash bros, watercolour
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