Category: Art

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The Traveling Wilburys

The End of the Line

This is a new hand made digital painting by Mark Young.

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Turning a Bird back into a Dinosaur

This started with a photograph I shot of a Pacific Coast Pelican when I was kayaking in in Redondo beach a few years ago.

Pacific Coast Pelican

When it came to me drawing the bird, I started out representing it as it is. But the urge to add teeth became too much for me. Then I just had to give it raptor claws and some feathered arms. Oh and the tail.

Pacificus oram pellicanus

The nearest living Dinosaur like bird is probably the Shoebill.

Does this look like a feasible dinosaur? Let me know what you think in the comments.

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Donald Trump

I painted this one of Donald Trump this week to mark the occasion of his arraignment in court. Although I’ve never been a fan of the former President, I can’t help but feel sorry for him. So I depicted him as looking melancholic. Perhaps he’s wondering why he ever bothered?

President Trump in court this week
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Acrylic Painting from start to finish.

I previously posted digital paintings in this style. But I really wanted to prove to myself that I could still paint like this in acrylics.

After a layer of Gesso, I painted a coating of black acrylic
I added streaks of blue
I like the way the shadows created geometric shapes
I added teal
Mixed up some green. I later added a really light gray and then added black.
Got so much into it that there’s no more intermediate stages shown.
After painting the person, I added the broken umbrella as an afterthought. Adding a touch of red to the hat. I figured the painting needed a small touch of red.