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Humm-a-lumma-ing-bird

By david, on October 27th, 2011

So a while back I did a piece of this kinda abstracted looking flower and a bee and really liked how it turned out. So heres round two of it. Switch it up make it look a little more like a legit flower( flowers are weird looking anyway so legit is anything ) and put in a bird. I got so many new ideas after doing this piece..MY MIND IS GOING TO EXPLODE!!!!

Enjoy!

10″ x 12″ – $40

Background in and drawn up

light shades

full color in the flower

the hummingbird looks so evil in this…I had to change a lot on it

start of outline

flower done

full outline

Hummingbird up close

Piece all finished up. Let me know if youre interested in this one!

Display Drums- 1 of 2

By david, on October 21st, 2011

A new piece for a good friend, I’ve done a few for him in the past and he always has some cool ideas of what he wants. The newest is a display piece painted on a drum. The first drum is a lot simpler, the second one(coming in a few days) is going to be a lot crazier. You might be able to play it but it might be a little safer to just hang it.

Enjoy!

drawn in

color missing black

skull and crossbones reference

outlines

finished and glossed

Just had to post this cause the sides looked super clean with pure white sids and black hardware.

Tree-A-Palooza

By david, on October 19th, 2011

So this is a repaint of a piece I did about a year ago. Something about trees that I’m always drawn back to, maybe its the mindless amount of tiny lines you have to put in. Anyways this is one of my favorite piece i’ve done recently(I know I say that about every piece when its done) but this one was different cause I actually got a chance to practice shading which I never do. This ones already sold but I had so much fun with it anyone else interested in one i’d love to do more! Also there is few pictures of the process of this one. Im not sure what cause it but the light affected it so much. The background color changes in every picture and the glare was always there. It took like 100 tries but the finished picture turned out perfect!

Enjoy!

Background color with light streaks

trunk

right side coming in, this piece was so weird because until the end it felt like it was so unbalanced with the amount of branches on each side

still super unbalanced

I have a horrible habit when I’m working on pieces like this with super fine lines, after I put in like 2 or 3 lines I lick the brush so the point is sharp again. By the end of 30 minutes of painting my mouth is always covered in black paint

All done! Shading was fun after I started to get the hang of it, and branch overlaps added so much to it. It looks good in the picture but cant even compare to it in person. So stoked

Second Hand Swimmer

By david, on October 7th, 2011

I’ve got piles laying everywhere, stacks of old broken skateboards. After staring at them for too long I decided to try and chop one up and do a cutout style painting on it. Such a change from cutting thin masonite to trying to get through seven layers of thin ply. Also the concave of the board gives it that cool bowed look. Another piece like it already started, I got plenty of boards to try and turn into art!

Enjoy!

7.75″ x 11.5″ – $40

How it began. Just had to get all the wax off and remove the grip

All cut out. Wanted to leave the sides alone and have the ends with all the shape

overlapping bubbles

full paint

Pen and ink circles are a pain. Fish in first

full outline. Detail left to do!

All done. Super stoked on this one.

Message me if interested!

Love in Mind

By david, on September 30th, 2011

This is a super quick piece I decided to do before I started on some of the new work I have in mind. I guess I just wanted a quick splash of color. Love in mind see, it how you please!

13″ x 8″ - $40

quick draw

few colors

sky blue

full paint

outline

close to being done

All finished.

contact me if you’re interested!

Beauty in Death…Take 2

By david, on September 18th, 2011

I think cutouts have to my favorite pieces to work with . This one in an old piece I did a while back and it was time to do a repaint on it. I love repaints cause you can really see the progression you’ve made since the first. Check out the difference (http://hobbsart.com/progression/beauty-in-death) So here is the new version of “Beauty in Death”.

Enjoy!

drawn and cut

first stage paint

full paint

beginning outline

full outline just needs random detail

up close done

Fully finished and ready to hang!

Pastels on 5th

By david, on September 11th, 2011

On September 10th a really awesome event took place in downtown Loveland to benefit the Southern Larimer County Safehouse Project. Alternatives to Violence hosted Pastels on 5th where businesses could sponsor an artist to create a work of art on a sidewalk tile. I never realized how much work it is to completely cover a 6ft x 5ft chunk of cement or some of the wild techniques others were using to make it look amazing. What can I say I’m a total pastel am but I had a blast! Now being the day after my legs feel like they were hit by a bus from all the ups and downs and my finger tips are completely raw. Cant ask for a better event going to an amazing cause!

Enjoy!

Drawn in and realizing how hard it was to make colors come thru pure

top half of the bird in

ready for main outline

all outlined and ready for the background to be put in.

Clouds clouds and more clouds. And a few of them look like they’re suffering from a little pollution. From my fingers all the way up to my armpits were completely black and it really dirtied up some colors

Was hunched over like this way too much. Thank you to whoever took this pictureAll done! And THANK YOU so much to Mckee Medical Center for sponsoring me for this event

Ace Project- Box Three of Three (Free Birds)

By david, on August 16th, 2011

The final box. Lost a lot of sleep trying to get this one done and it might be my favorite out of all three of them. Maybe I just like painting birds or maybe its because the pieces actually got done on time and I’m just relieved. Right after I had fully finished outlining it I looked at the birds and they looked like they were screaming at each other. Not sure how I didn’t realize that the entire time. I blame lack of sleep so that ended up being a last minute change. A piece is never fully done I guess.

P.S. (I really sucked at taking a lot of pictures of the process of this one)

Enjoy!

drawing ideas

Birds

So hard to see but first stages of paint

birds coming in

full paint

tails

one bird full outline

tails outline

Screaming birds

DoneDoneDone

I got some strange ideas brewing up for upcoming pieces so check back soon!

Ace Project- Box Two of Three (the heart)

By david, on August 5th, 2011

So here is box two. I keep looking at these and putting a time limit on them and then I sit painting and watching the time shoot past. It is kinda surprising the time it takes to paint all 5 sides of these. But I should have just enough time to get the last one finished before the deadline. The second one I decided to put a abstracted heart on the top and out of every artery shapes pour out creating an abstract face on each side. One left to go!

Enjoy!

start of drawings

Heart painted in

Clouds!

Other things

Two faces

two more faces

Heart outlined

close to full outline

other 2 sides

Finished up

finished up

The top is my favorite piece by far. probably end up doing a canvas piece of this down the road!

Ace Project-Box One of Three

By david, on July 28th, 2011

Pieces in my past have been coming back lately and are opening up so many new opportunities and recently the transformer project brought this one to me. The ACE project held this year at the Agilent Technology building is hosting 400 business people and I got lucky enough to paint 3 centerpieces for the tables there. They’re a mock version of full size transformer cabinets and I will do everything I can to make mine super chaotic. Heres my first one. The concept is how our brain works. Every shape represents a thought, memory, idea or piece of imagination our brain shoots out.

enjoy!

three to finish in 20 days