http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/eric-black.html?tab=blog Eric Black - Fine Art Blog http://www.fineartamerica.com/artistlogos/eric-black-1294336292-logo1.jpg http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/eric-black.html?tab=blog Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:59:37 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/safe-at-home.html It's finished, name is on it and it's been sprayed with fixative. I used some silver to darken places as silver gets darker than the gold. Some colored areas of Jackie's uniform have ink stippling on them to create the shadows. Now the piece is ... Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:27:11 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/out-at-home.html The piece is essentially finished, all I need to do is put my signature on and touch up a couple of places and put fixative over it. The stippling is complete over the colored areas of Jackie"s uniform and it only took about a week. Lucky me. I us... Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:37:04 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/2-yogi-and-jackie.html Progress is being made, really. All the color is in place. I used gouache mixed with white acrylic gesso which I thought would give me a colored surface I could use the gold over. It appears at this point that the gold will not show up over the co... Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:50:53 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/1-yogi-and-jackie.html Two days in and the drawing of the Yogi figure is mostly complete. The outline that is. I'll go through a piece like this and first I do a very light sketch of the basic outline of the piece. I'll add in major lines for different parts of the piec... Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:47:54 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/yogi-and-jackie.html Started a new piece yesterday, one I've been wanting to do for a year or so. Every year about this time baseball comes back from it's long winter's nap and I'm all enthused again about the boys of summer. Unfortunately living in Seattle means I ge... Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:44:17 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/jack-be-nimble.html Well this piece is about to make me crazy. Happens frequently. It's turning into a technical marvel with very little drawing involved, unless you want to count stippling as drawing which I'm marginally going to concede. It's mixed media for sure, ... Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:31:18 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/candlesworking-title.html The original candle photo apparently won't upload so the picture above is the airbrushed background in the second photo I talk about in the blog. Candles- 3-12-2010. Starting a new piece. I think I've downloaded the photo I'm working from as wel... Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:16:26 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/kokopellis-other-knee-finished-piece.html Finished. Whew. I always feel a great relief to put my name on a piece when it's done. I can't wreck it anymore. I've done that more than once, wreck a piece right at the finish, and it makes me cry, every time. I'm liking this one. When you ... Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:55:54 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/kokopellis-other-knee-more.html Most of the ink stippling has now been completed. There will be a little "fit and finish" work to be completed in a few days when the background is completed. I've started with the silver darkening the background to where it needs to go. It's a lo... Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:03:44 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/kokopellies-other-knee-2.html Quite a bit has been done on this piece since the last blog. Most of the metalpoint work has been done in the forground and the background shadows are mostly finished, or near completion. I started doing the ink stippling three days ago and it's a ... Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:26:29 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/kokopellis-other-knee.html There are numerous things to consider when starting a new piece. Picking the subject is amoung those things. I've been working on still life pieces and trying to adapt the metalpoint, in this case silver, to create a clear precise image. It's not... Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:21:15 GMT http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/1-new-site.html This web site is new to me and it's still under construction. This Blog is new to me also, I'll try to keep it up and say something intelligent. This new site is a conglomeration of my two existing sites, inklinesgallery.com and metalpointgold.com ...