Rock? "r-o-k"?

Pulled out my phone again and tried to paint -
And here's the video:

iPhone Chipotle Painting from Robb Gibbs on Vimeo.

Drawing on the tiny screen is really hard, but I think it also helps to force good painting habits on me. For example, I constantly have to zoom way out from the image so that I can get a sense of the whole composition. I liken this to standing up and stepping back from an actual canvas.

Painting on the phone also makes me use as big of a brush as possible for each spot on the screen. As soon as I start to fiddle with something really tiny, I wind up with a bunch of noisy scratches that just distract or go unnoticed in the bigger picture. I think the phone is also making me establish a decent method for attacking an image since I can't get too complex with layers or selection edges or nothin.

In this piece, I'm not sure if it's the value structure, composition or the colors (or maybe a bit of all three) that bother me most. But next time I sit down, I want to focus on pushing the light areas on top of the dark areas on top of the light areas on top of the dark areas . . . etc, etc . . . Really concentrate on layering and exaggerating my values. I also want to figure the composition out a bit more w/ a thin brush so it's not such a happy/unhappy accident as I progress through the piece. This one got a little weird and I wound up just slapping on some bright colors in an attempt to separate foreground elements from stuff behind them!
Still, it's a good time trying to make images in a painter-ish way rather than my usual pencil/watercolor-wash-attack method.
Hope you all are doin real nice and that we'll meet again soon!

Happy trails -
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Zing-Blam! Launching Leopard!!

Here's some faces from the book store:
Thanks to my friends and family for a perfect holiday weekend!!!!!
Yours forever,
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Expecto Patronum

While feasting on Chipotle this weekend, I hung around for a bit and made this sketch on my iPhone. I used the "Brushes" application and liked it . . . . but wish they'd let you use layers.The application also has a cool feature where it saves your brush strokes into a movie. Take a peek:

iPhone Painting Attempt 1 from Robb Gibbs on Vimeo.

In other news, I saw this fully-grown wizard at the mall this weekend and managed to stealthily snap this picture without him noticing:

From my heart to yours (Wizards and Muggles alike) -
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LETS GET A LITTLE BIT ROWDY

Ran down to DC on Sunday to wander around and see what I could see. I was nursing a mild hangover and kept falling asleep as I finished this drawing! It's the Lincoln Memorial. Fantastic weekend and hope that summer will carry on forever.Yours affectionately -
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G-O, WE GOT THE GO POWER; GO

Spent another day loving sunshine and watching people walk by as I smashed this picture up. As I was finishing, a Keyshia Cole concert started serenading me from somewhere across the harbor. Delightful!!All my love -
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Oh those boys are much too much

Down to Baltimore's Inner Harbor this weekend to eat lots of watermelon, smoke a few stogies and draw this here picture:Next time I will stick to a set of complimentary colors or stay within a small set of analogous hues. Color is scary!!

Love to everyone -
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My apologies in advance -

Always liked this Wilco song and so I had a fantastic time sitting down and making this ridiculous cover of it. Still don't know what the song is about or what it means, but it always puts me in a really nice mood.

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