tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227583232024-03-13T05:28:55.291-07:00Julia LundmanJulia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-60907234426351173842020-12-06T13:22:00.003-08:002021-07-19T09:08:27.549-07:00Newsletter!<p> Hello everyone! It has been quite some time since I've updated my blog. These days I am busy working on a body of personal work, something that I've wanted to do for a very long time. </p><p>I have a new website for my personal work. I will also have a new online shop opening October 2021. For the opening announcement, sign up to my newsletter. I will only send you e mail about the opening and once or twice a year shop updates.</p><p>Sign up here:</p><p><a href="http://julialundman.com/" target="_blank">Julia Lundman</a></p><p>Thank you for your support!</p><p>Julia</p>Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-49848680246165823442019-08-01T11:56:00.001-07:002019-08-01T11:56:53.654-07:00Sketchbook Challenge!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In June I attended <a href="http://lightgreyartlab.com/lgal-residency-about" target="_blank">Light Grey Art Lab's artist residency in Norway</a>. It was such a great experience to go somewhere remote and spend it with artists from around the world, sharing our experiences and having fun. I will never forget it! Part of what we had to do as a requirement of the residency was give a presentation about our inner art life and practice and also challenge the other artists in the residency in some way. This is my challenge, which I thought I would share publicly. </span></div>
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I have a few narrative ideas that I am finally working on in earnest, now that I am on hiatus from studio jobs and focusing on my personal work. One of my ideas involves a reinvention and extended version of the classic, "The Little Mermaid", focusing on the story of the Sea Witch.</div>
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For this story, I wanted to fully explore who or what the Sea Witch might look like in the aesthetic I want to create. My story has a few evolutionary versions of this character, but to start I wanted to focus on what she might have looked like during the classic tale when she meets the little mermaid.</div>
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Since I haven't done a lot of creature work in my career, I thought I might dive into an online course to see where it might take me. I found a summer online course at <a href="https://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/instructors/170-bobby-rebholz" target="_blank">CGMA with Bobby Rebholz </a> that seemed to fit the bill for a general overview of creature invention. I'm so glad I took the course. </div>
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The first thing we focused on was iterating. We put together pages of references for research and then had to come up with as many variations as we could, anything that came to mind immediately. This stage was really amusing; I could have gone on forever!</div>
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After submitting the sketches, we focused on picking out a couple of thumbnails that worked best. I had a hard time choosing and in the end regretted not choosing a few different thumbnails. However, going through the process was entirely worth it no matter what the result. </div>
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This sketch, above, for instance, seems less threatening and more benign than I would have liked to express. The design is based on a manatee, who are pretty gentle creatures, and a lion fish, which are quite poisonous.</div>
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I really like the idea of a fish that has fins that come up towards it's face when wishing to appear threatening. This variation was based on salamanders and flying fish.</div>
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After we submitted ideas for a few basic designs, we focused on iterating the head. This was the class I think I got the most out of since the head is really what the characters interact with and is so memorable and impactful in dialog scenes.</div>
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These versions (above) were really fun to draw. I looked at everything from giant squid to walruses to even bats. In the end, I decided they were too derivative of Cthulu for the sea witch I wanted for my story. In my story there is another creature of the deep that I want to be reminiscent of Chtulu, so I decided to save any mouth/head tentacles for that creature instead of this one.</div>
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Next class we focused on a few poses for the few variants. At this point I knew the manatee like creature was not really cutting it for my story, but it was still fun to draw.</div>
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While I am not entirely sure of this ^^^ design, I do like the slinky quality it offers. I also like wispy hair and head lures that might throw off unsuspecting prey in the dark. I like bioluminescence, in general, for a Sea Witch, and tentacles of some sort for arms seem creepy. When I drew this version I was thinking about moray eels, as well, which have such great faces. </div>
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For our last class, we had to do a few studies of the final animals that we were studying as a basis of our design. I landed on the Hellbender Salamander and the Bamboo Shark as most of my inspiration points, but there were definitely some other ideas in there, too. </div>
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And the final painting of my final design for the Sea Witch.</div>
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And a few detailed head studies and a version of the witch in full light.</div>
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Although I am most likely going to edit and revise this character to fit with my story, I am glad I went through the process of taking a creature course. There were a lot of great discussions about considerations, acting, and posing that I hadn't thought about and I learned a great process for coming up with an entirely new animal. </div>
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I am unsure when I will be able to finish my story in full since I am pretty deeply in the process of creating a huge series of paintings, drawings and sketches around a fairy/dryad/seasons story at the moment. But I will keep picking away little by little on my Sea Witch story, as much as I can. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I should note here that these panels are all oil gilded rather than water gilded. Oil gilding involves applying oil size and allowing it to dry for a specific time before adhering the metal leaf. Water gilding is a different process that yields great results, too, and is often used for making very slick and shiny surfaces, which I wasn't necessarily interested in for these little pieces. Also, I gilded the panels straight onto a white gessoed surface instead of applying a base color (typically called a "bole"). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One really cool thing about the metal surface is that it reflects light even in the middle of the night with all of the lights turned off. I tried to capture this a bit. (Sorry for the shaky cam!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the grisaille under paintings were finished, I moved to detail color work. I found with each one that balancing the transparency of the wings for "Earth" and "Sun" against the metal leaf was quite difficult. I probably spent more time working on the wings than any other aspect of each painting. It was also difficult to gauge the color structure while painting because the shimmery metal leaf would change during the day and change the nature of the color. In some cases I repainted the color layer twice in order to adjust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Participating in <a href="https://inktober.com/" target="_blank">Inktober</a> for the past two years has really been helpful in improving my inking techniques and exploring new ways to render a subject in ink, and it has also been pretty great for generating ideas that I'd like to develop further. This painting, "Ancient Grief" came out of a series of sketches I did as prep for <a href="https://julialundmanmidlock.blogspot.com/2018/11/inktober-2018.html" target="_blank">Inktober</a> while I was thinking about a connective narrative for all of the pieces for the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the past few years I have been waking up around 5:30 am. After I get some coffee, I spend a few hours drawing in my sketchbook in the living room, usually while listening to ambient music on my headphones. I've found that if I don't think too much about what to draw, subjects begin to tumble out of my mind. This entire series of sketches was one of those mornings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently I am not alone in this experience. Many artists and writers dedicate their early morning hours to their craft and have reported it as a unique period of productive creativity. This short article sums it up pretty well: <a href="https://writingcooperative.com/why-you-need-to-write-first-thing-in-the-morning-6736dff4cfc9" target="_blank">Why You Need to Write First Thing in the Morning. </a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early morning sketching has therefore been at the very core of finding images that resonate for me and is a sacred part of my process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of these sketches ended up being a part of a larger narrative that I used for my <a href="https://julialundmanmidlock.blogspot.com/2018/11/inktober-2018.html" target="_blank">Inktober pieces, a story that I've not finished. I wrote about my last inktober series here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But one sketch in particular stood out as something I'd like to paint rather than ink; it had an extra sense of mood and emotion that brought it into a different realm than the other sketches. I developed it as a larger sketch in order to figure out more details and think about a composition that might work as a painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the sketch was finished, I transferred it to a panel using saral graphite transfer paper. (Next time I would rather use an oil transfer for this step, which I'll talk about that in later posts.) This time instead of painting on a white board, I decided to tone the entire canvas with raw sienna, yellow ochre and white, and then painted in the rough shadows before going into color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the palette, I chose a pretty limited palette of Natural Pigments Lead White #2, Lead Tin Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cad Orange, Raw Sienna, Transparent Red Oxide, Burnt Sienna Raw Sienna, and Italian Green Umber. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Originally, I was going to use the exact same limited palette of custom mixes I made for my Seasons series (as described in my last post), but I thought instead I could just create the mixes in a close enough range to match that palette on the fly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, I wanted the keep the focal point on the emotion of the scene and didn't want to distract from the color of the character. I wanted the fairy to have rich red hair and pale skin, similar to some of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings I had just seen at the Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Bocca Baciata", 1859, had such a beautiful contrast in the hair and skin that I wanted to see if I could create a similar contrast and delicacy in my painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although she is laying on a bed of fall leaves, I thought I would depict them as a monochromatic drawing rather than paint them in full color. Originally I wanted the leaves to be much more loose and sketchy, but after I painted the fairy and the bone, it seemed like I needed to tighten up the leaves...so they became sort of a monochromatic painting in the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hard to believe, but fairy wings and insect wings are really time consuming to paint. At first I thought they might be the easiest to paint, requiring just a few highlights and accents to make them feel transparent. However, I ended up fiddling around with the details quite a bit to get them to look shimmery, and honestly I still feel like they aren't shimmery enough. (This reason alone is probably why I will make a billion more fairy paintings...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since this painting is connected to the story of my inktober pieces, I am going to continue along with these paintings and more inks throughout this year. Stay tuned for more and follow along! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earlier this year I finished these four small paintings. It was a huge breakthrough because I spent so much time planning and figuring out technical details (process outlined below). More importantly, they represent an aesthetic I've been trying to figure out for some time, which recalls my love of fantasy inspired by illustrators in literature and history. All of these subjects have been deep influences on my interests throughout my life, yet I never quite knew how to channel it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is my process. For those interested, feel free to ask any questions. I am happy to give more details if they help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first thing I did was work up some quick loose sketches in my sketchbook, then these studies below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I wanted my paintings to have gold and silver details, I needed to carefully consider the palette. I scanned the drawings and then played with color palettes in Photoshop before I actually painted them. I really liked a muted palette against the brightness of the gold and silver and went with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In regards to technique, glazing color on top is fairly easy, it is just takes a few layers in order to cover the underpainting underneath. I love this stage the most. It finally feels like everything is coming alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this is the part that took me literally months to figure out...gilding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had so many frustrating experiments on test surfaces that were not working the way I needed them to. Gilding on oil paintings, it turns out, is a little more involved than gilding on paper surfaces. I see a lot of artists using gilding in their work, but it is not at all easy when you want a specific design and are working with oil paint, which tends to want to grab the metal leaf, making brushing away the excess a nightmare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ended up taking a class with Lynn Rutter on gilding techniques. I am <i>so glad</i> I did. I learned a huge amount in information in two days that answered a lot of questions and provided important information about how to make sure that materials like oil paint and varnishes underneath the gilded surface interact well and archival for a long time. For all of the gilded details, I painted used twelve hour oil size and then used various metal leaf when the size was ready. Because some metal leaf tarnishes, I also learned about the importance of using shellac (and which kind) to create an isolation layer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once again I decided to challenge myself and try out <a href="https://inktober.com/" target="_blank">Inktober 2018</a> to see if I could improve my inking ability. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have always admired ink drawings more than other kinds of drawing because of the boldness and confidence immediately indicated by committing line to paper and using two values to define any given subject. A particular favorite inking artist is Italian artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Battaglia" target="_blank">Dino Battaglia</a>, who worked primarily in the 1940's-1970's illustrating comics and graphic novels. I love his use of texture and negative shapes, and his compositions are pretty incredible, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can find more of his work online, but there doesn't seem to be a lot, unfortunately. Someone needs to put a book together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Battaglia's work in mind, I started out inktober trying to figure out where and how I could include texture. It was not at all easy. Not only did I have to draw the composition, but then had to figure out some sort of value pattern where I could commit a texture as a third value. I found texture in general worked best with a small bit of reindeer moss or gauze and a somewhat dry stamp pad. The texture didn't come across as clearly if the ink was too wet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, as inktober progressed, I decided that perhaps it would be better to get a feel for how dip pens worked and how I could indicate value with cross hatching and line work. I ended up using texture as an accent rather than feature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the piece below, I primed the paper with a thin wash of acrylic titanium buff, a technique I've used for a long time in my sketchbooks, usually if I want to paint on top of the sketchbook paper. It makes a nice gessoed surface that accepts watermedia. Also, it turns out, makes a great surface for inking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another artist I really love is Arthur Rackham. He did a lovely series of illustrations all in silhouette, which I've always admired. I wanted to try at least one silhouette. I toned the paper with a light grey wash of acrylic, let dry, then a few touches of textures, and then painted the forms with a brush. The hardest part I think is the clear design. I'd love to try a whole series of these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this one has the same general idea, but with some modeling in the silhouette. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Towards the end of inktober I was inking and re-inking at least 2-3 times. I think it's good practice to re-ink pieces because it gives you a chance to not only warm up, but also loosen up and see if you can push the subject further. Each time I re-inked a piece I did not regret it. I'd post my original inks for these here, but I cringe every time I look at them, sorry. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think I inked this one over 3 times...finding reference of a pelvis bone was really tough. I also was unsure about the composition, so I tried out a few ideas before finalizing this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the very last piece, I switched from using a dip pen to rapidiograph pens. What a relief! I had more control over the thickness of the lines, which I generally wanted fairly small. I also started working larger, which I think helped a great deal in getting the kind of detail I wanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put a warm filter on the drawing for the final shot. Is that cheating? I don't know. I like it better, though. Toned paper always has a nice feel to it that I like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NOTE: You may be wondering about why all these fairies are messing around with old bones in the forest. There is an answer, but I am not finished telling the story. I like the idea a lot and will continue adding to it over the next couple of months in between painting work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In all, I ended up creating nine pieces, which falls far short of the intended 31 days of ink drawings. However, the intent is to improve, and I feel like I worked pretty hard during the month. I experimented with ideas and compositions as well as story telling, acting, and overall value design. While I wasn't able to finish the mini story I am telling in these pieces, I am still left feeling like I made a journey that has left me in a better place than where I was last inktober. </span></div>
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-62151683303952237882018-05-12T11:35:00.000-07:002018-05-12T11:38:11.794-07:00Plein Air Gouache/Catalina Island<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This month I've lived in San Francisco for exactly 18 years! I can hardly believe it's been that long, longer than any other place I've lived. In all that time, I had never visited Catalina Island, 17 miles off the shore of Long Beach, just south of Los Angeles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I normally sketch in either pastels or oil, but I didn't want to carry around an easel or heavy materials. Gouache is so easy to pack, light to carry in a backpack, and easy to clean up on site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also started a new sketchbook made of kraft paper. The paper has a nice base tone that I like for gouache, but I don't care for how much it absorbs the pigment. I end up using more paint than I normally would and I never really got clean color in the sky areas. I will continue to fill up this sketchbook, though. I will likely gesso a few pages with a base of casein or acrylic for future sketches. </span></div>
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-27988651493853938952017-12-21T13:46:00.000-08:002017-12-21T13:46:48.821-08:00Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice, and Merry Christmas!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merry Christmas to everyone! Thank you for reading my blog and commenting! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's all make 2018 a year to remember. </span></div>
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-28091206953998250412017-12-03T15:09:00.000-08:002017-12-03T15:15:56.217-08:00Reliquaries/ Initial Concepts for dimensional pieces<div style="text-align: center;">
I've been working on a large series of what will be dimensional pieces using a variety of materials, oil paint, gold and silver leaf, clay and ribbon. They will, hopefully, have some depth by lifting cut pieces off the base. I am a little nervous about cutting the pieces, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.</div>
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Here are are a few concepts which I adapted from a few of my inktober pieces, the concepts pertaining to traditional memento mori.</div>
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THIS series, "Seasons" is going to be much more complicated. Here are a few concepts I'm playing with. The scalloped edges may change when I finally paint and assemble the pieces. Good to have a plan, though.<br />
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-66258630898664421262017-10-06T10:43:00.000-07:002017-11-27T09:08:19.885-08:00Inktober 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, I wanted to focus on one subject, memento mori. I've lately been looking a lot at medieval art and especially love reliquaries. So beautiful and creepy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks for taking a peek at my inks! Hopefully by next year I'll have learned a few more techniques. I plan to keep trying out various ways to ink throughout 2018. (and continue on a few of my other projects...coming soon!)</span></div>
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-18567540923794792262017-10-03T13:42:00.000-07:002017-10-08T12:03:53.641-07:00Star Wars "Forces of Destiny" Animated Shorts<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently painted several key backgrounds for the animated series<br />Star Wars "Forces of Destiny". The shorts were produced by Lucasfilm and directed and animated at Ghostbot. I thought I would share a few of the backgrounds I was lucky to paint! </span><br />
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-57977751732848753782017-09-02T12:00:00.000-07:002017-09-04T09:42:55.813-07:00Updated Website and Portfolio<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent the last week updating my portfolio and website. It was a tough job because previously I had a slide show and I wanted something more simple, like a scrolling page. I use squarespace templates for my website, but I found that trying out a new template was no easy task! The site used to make it easy to test out new templates by filling in your existing samples into the new template, but with the updates now that is impossible. You basically need to redesign your site in order to see what a new template would look like. Oi! I finally decided to reconfigure my existing site to reflect the ideas I had about my portfolio presentation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding portfolio content, after working for a long time, portfolio editing can be really difficult. I've accumulated so many pieces of art, have so many projects going, and I like to sketch and paint all the time, work that is not connected to professional endeavors. In addition to that, I have been freelancing for about a year now, which means I have been working on several short term projects for various companies. So how to update my portfolio? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think a good solution is to create a general overview leading a website front page. I think of the rest of the headings as "deep cuts", more in depth. There are a lot of ways to represent various interests, like galleries of character work, environments, and storyboards, but in the end I decided to try out categories based on projects. I'll try it out for a while. Hopefully it is easy to navigate.</span></div>
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-37091353838413291492017-07-31T14:23:00.000-07:002017-07-31T20:36:47.346-07:00"Bitter Green"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Julia Lundmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12738254016772333899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22758323.post-76843282663970751242017-07-25T13:56:00.000-07:002017-07-25T15:37:57.913-07:00"Dandelion"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the best art discoveries I made was in art school when I stumbled on a volume of <a href="http://www.flowerfairies.com/" target="_blank">Cicely Mary Barker's "Flower Fairies"</a>. It led to research into her and her life and other artists I also admire, mainly Jesse Wilcox Smith and Margaret Tarrant. I love the playful, beautiful ethereal versions of fairies out there, but I am interested in juxtaposing the prettiness of nature and it's endless color schemes with an anarchy and punkiness in character, which is closer to how I understand Nature, anyway. I have so many more ideas; hopefully I will be able to realize them throughout this late summer and fall. Thinking I might even try "inktober" this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Season 3 of Disney Junior's Palace Pets has begun! Once again, I worked with animation studio director Alan Lau at <a href="http://www.ghostbot.com/" target="_blank">Ghostbot </a>on the shorts, this time primarily on color scripts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this season, the color scripts were abbreviated; they function more as color roughs of key frames. For each short I did six panels. Here is one example from "Tunnels of Fun":</span></div>
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I'm so excited! I illustrated a Whisker Haven Tales Palace Pets book and it has finally arrived!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UPDATE: I am in the throws of writing the script for this story this summer. Hoping to have my story locked down by mid fall, October, so that I can finally start penciling! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For some time now I have been developing several stories of my own, but have decided to focus solely on my version of "The Little Mermaid" told in the Viking era. Originally I set the world in the Samurai era, which I still think would be pretty cool, but since I have roots in my Scandinavian heritage, I decided the project would be a cool way to learn more about the era of my ancestors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am planning thorough research on my little mermaid character, but I really wanted to design the main viking character first, since he would firmly set the era in place for my story. I'm really glad I spent so much time working on him since designing the character brought to mind some interesting story twists and ideas that I hadn't thought of previously.</span></div>
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