Day 23: Light Switch

Light switch in my room.


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Day 22: Poll Results

The poll regarding what I should paint ended. The results: The summertime girl - 3 votes, The Chevy Van - 3 votes. Now since two paintings got equal amount of votes it's up to me to decide between those two. My choice is The Summertime Girl. I will start working on it this week and hopefully by weekend it'll be done.

Thank you for participating!

Day 21: Hercules - The Shelter Dog

Hercules is a shelter dog. My girlfriend volunteers there, loves dogs at the shelter including Hercules, and occasionally writes short stories about her experience there publishing them on her Blog. This image is an illustration to one of them.

I decided that I will mail this sketch to whoever adopts Hercules.

Please do NOT adopt the dog just to get this sketch!

Day 20: Chicago at Night

Day 19: The Night Street (pencil sketch)

Pencil sketch that I think will make a good painting. I know, i know - doesn't look exciting at all, BUT... I will post a watercolor version tomorrow. Better than nothing, right?

Day 18: Painting Poll!

(New!)

I cannot decide which one of the sketches I want to paint, they all look good to me. So I decided to ask for your opinion.

You can vote there>>>>>>>

(New!)

Day 17: Chevy Van on the Street

Dimensions: (7.5" x 11.5")

Day 16: Chicago View

View on the backstreet from my apartment in Chicago.
Sketch that hopefully will grow into a fully developed painting some day.

Day 15: Brick Wall in the Morning.

I had to wake up unusually early for me today, around 6:00 AM (I sleep in till 2:00 PM otherwise), I looked out of my window and one striking difference in what i saw flashed in my brain - old dirty smoked brick wall of my neighbours' house that blocks all the light coming to my room was brightly lit with a morning sunshine. It appeared almost golden in a clear frozen air. I made a quick sketch in pen while figuring out how I can show the brick texture of the wall. A thick cloud of white steam was coming out of the pipes sticking from the neighbour's basement. That was harder to portray, so if I'll have to get up early on a cold Chicago morning again, I will certainly try to paint this cloud. Luckily my neighbor uses laundry drier almost every day.

Brick wall (5.5" x 8.5")

P.S.

Dimensions for the paintings are updated.

Day 14: A Funky Speaker

Today's picture is called "A Funky Speaker".
Below I post a pen sketch and a finished watercolor mini-painting. It is more of a miniature in style and my experiment with color. The original speaker I tried to portray was black and grey by color. Mostly monochromic palette of Chicago winter is pretty depressing, and painting something of the same spectrum did not really appeal to me - as a result grey speaker came out to be a hippie.

One last thing: painting is approximately 5.5" x 8.5". Tomorrow I will update size specifications for the previous paintings and sketches.

Day 13: Flower basket

Below is a quick painting i did in October. The best part in my opinion is a wooden post and the fence. It is in a private collection at the moment.

Dimensions: (11" x 15")

Day 12: The Printer

Dimensions: (5.5" x 6.5")

Day 11: Heineken

My favourite imported beer.

Dimensions: (5.5" x 8.5")

Day 10: Pink and Green

Today I went to the Art Insitute of Chicago. They have public hours after 5 every Thursday. C. Monet and the way he plays with color "inspired" me for this "piece".

Pink and Green #1 (5.5" x 8.5")

Day 9: The Death of Coke

Watercolor sequence of the day. I called it The Death of Coke... The initial idea was to depict a black cord running into the water to an imaginary hair dryer or toaster. Well i decided not to do that, so here it is..

Dimensions: (5.5" x 6.5")

Day 8: iPod Nano.

Another pen sketch (5" x 8.5").

Day 7: Summertime Girl

Dimensions: (6" x 8.5")

Color printer vs. b/w one. I personally prefer color.

Day 6: Skype Sequence Sketches

Tears on Skype (5.5" x 6.5")

Day 5: Laptop Still Life Sequence

I am back from Pittsburgh and back to work. My girlfriend inspired me for a first sequence that I am posting below:

My laptop at the kitchen table (5.5" x 6.5")