Tag: Summer 2011

  • The Alchemist : Beginnings

    The Alchemist : Beginnings

    I totally should have uploaded this ages ago.  Back in Ye Olde Backround Painting class, there was a final piece from The Alchemist.  This time I did pretty much the opening scene from the book. I ended up picking the secondary triadic color scheme for it, and went on to final.  This was a pretty…

  • The Alchemist : The Oasis

    The Alchemist : The Oasis

    Yet another piece relating to The Alchemist!  I think, revisions aside, there’s only one more to do after this.  This is yet another piece influenced by N. C. Wyeth and Aztec art. This time I picked a scene at the Oasis where they are talking about the journey ahead — Santiago has just recently decided…

  • The Alchemist : The Wind

    The Alchemist : The Wind

    I seem to have a lot of these Alchemist things, don’t I?  Well, yeah.  That’s pretty much what my background painting class is revolving around. For this particular project, we were told to make a giant sheet of various black to white blobs/markings/etc and then had to cut out mini compositions from the results. This is…

  • The Alchemist: In the Desert

    The Alchemist: In the Desert

    So I’ve got another Background Painting class thing to ramble about.  Two, actually, but I’m going to write about them separately. So for our more major project, I illustrated one of the scenes in the desert where the Alchemist sends away his falcon to hunt before he speaks to Santiago about the trip. There’s still a…

  • The Crystal Shop – Final

    The Crystal Shop – Final

    So I finally finished up the Crystal Shop image. There weren’t too many changes from the previous version.  I softened the edges on the cast shadow in the foreground and simplified both the clouds and the fabric in the foreground.  Other than that, I think I’ve pretty much ranted about everything I wanted to so…

  • The Crystal Shop

    The Crystal Shop

    So for background painting this semester we were given the choice to illustrate backgrounds for either the children’s book, Jerome the Frog, or The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.  I went with The Alchemist mainly because I wanted to do more desert themed stuff.  (Maybe one day I’ll even go back and re-redraw VC or something, can…