Monday, February 02, 2009

Recent Quick Sketch

One of those fun sketches where you load up your canvas with abstract nonsense, and begin pulling things out of it. On a psychological level, I've noticed that I paint more snow scenes during the winter months, even though I'm working from imagination. Interesting.

34 comments:

  1. A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y love it!!!

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  2. Is that house splitting in half? Someone should talk to the contractor about that.

    Splendid work as always!

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  3. lovely and very interesting!

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  4. Yes, love that approach of creating something out of abstractions. Great lighting on this too.

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  5. Fantastic work! :D
    Cheers!

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  6. wow! really nice work!!

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  7. Nice one man! I love the details!!

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  8. beautiful! great texture and lighting (as usual).

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  9. Arg! Another really cool piece.

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  10. Wow how are these sketches?! man, if only i could sketch like that.

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  11. Hey thanks guys!
    Andrew, I refer to these as 'sketches', knowing that they're much more refined than, say, a sketchbook scribble. But in the realm of a painting, they're just a few steps away from being abstract (zoom in to any area and it's basically abstract strokes). To be honest, I find it to be more of a challenge to paint like this, than mindlessly rendering things out. Plus, I just get bored after awhile. As a viewer, I know I like looking at looser paintings more, too. If you haven't already, check out Richard Schmid's legacy of work. He's THE master at this stuff. Unfortunately, his website only contains a very small portion of his work...and it's not high res :(

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  12. wow!!! Love the mood Marco!Crazy Goood!

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  13. Thanks alot for the drop by on my blog. You've got absolutely awesome awesome stuff! Hope you don't mind me adding you on my link list. :D will definitely keep an eye out on your stuff. Cheers!

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  14. very awesome work Marco! Hope your lecture went well at Sheridan. I just read it. Disappointed that i missed it.

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  15. all your work is really amanzing.
    Best

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  16. Quickpainting??????? Are you taking drugs?
    http://caricaturas.blogspot.com

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  17. Anonymous5:37 PM

    WOw Marco! great mood !

    Love the edges and textures too .

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  18. whoa!!!

    this is incredible. your command of color is astounding.

    amazing work sir.

    C

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  19. Marco, your cities and landscapes from imagination are gorgeous! You should put a small book together . . . fantastic work!

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  20. This is very complete for a just sketch stuff.

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  21. this is magical marco. very nice.

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  22. Awesome!!! just awesome !!!

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  23. awesome! you sir are genius in lighting! love the mood! :)

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  24. Hey Marco. I agree with Jason. You need to put a book together. If I can get stuff published then O.M.G. you should be a BLOCKBUSTER.
    DO IT!
    Anyway, come check out my new portfolio when you can. I put some of the Book illustrations on there.
    www.lubbersportfolio.blogspot.com

    Thanks Buddy!!

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  25. yeah man -that's awesome. Great mood - interesting everywhere you look.

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  26. Fabulous! And to think that came out of your imagination

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  27. I love it Marco , it´s awesome dude!!!!

    see u

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  28. This one is magnificent Marco... such imagination to it. I'm quite the opposite, I tend to draw and paint tropical places during the winter months :).

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  29. Beautiful. Great composition and emotional impact.

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