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Dillen Le

@dillenle-blog

Welcome! This blog is a continuation of my website, and a place to organize all my inspiration, doodles and art jibbers. Also known as the Squid Dilly, as in SqiDilee D, Dee Do Dah, and indeedilly squiggilly but with D. Cheers!

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Feb 25, 2014

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Mini #doodle #watercolors #ink #moth

YAY!!! I can't wait for this, its going be the coolest watercolor travel kit

:D

Feb 25, 2014

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From today’s plain air sketching sesh…

From the Serrano stretch behind Heritage Hill.

Dude, this was soo fun. We need to get more people together and keep this going every week

we be a pack of art bandits scavenging the wilderness for good comps :)

Join the club!

Feb 24, 2014

Started a portrait to avoid rocks... They tend to be hard on the eyes ;l

Feb 26, 2013

The Squid Dilly

"Wonder, A glow in the Dark"

6" x 36" oil on board

Mural design pitch for Power of Words Project 2012

From Jan 2012 to Jan. 2013, I worked with a mural team in designing and executing a mural in Laguna Beach, CA. The theme was wonder, and my concept focused on children and the rush of wonder when entering an amusement park for the first time. To me the design is an amalgamation of all things wondrous, from jungle gyms to planets in space to the tides of the sea. I decided to call it "a glow in the dark" because I believed it complemented "wonder" very well. From the lightbulb going off in your head (an idea), to the countless stars twinkling in the night sky, there is something unquestionably intriguing and wondrous about a little speck of light outshining the darkness that surrounds it.

Can you believe I only got second place? :o LOL

See pics of the completed mural and winning design on the news section of my website :)

The Squid Dilly

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Feb 26, 2013

Christ’s Descent into Hell (Details) Style of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, about 1550-60)

#Art #illustration #bosch #hieronymous #painting #paintings #oil painting #surrealism

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Feb 26, 2013

Song by Andrew Ferez

#Art #illustration #amazing #muted #gret #candles #piano #musician #painting #cloudy #mist

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Feb 26, 2013

The Forgotten Gods, Yoann Lossel

#painting #process #gold leaf #ram #tree #house #surrealism #surreal #illustration

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Feb 26, 2013

Maja Lindberg

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Feb 26, 2013

Henrique Oliveira.

Henrique Oliveira’s transformation of a house in his trademark style of installation work:

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Feb 26, 2013

The Squid Dilly

Process photos from "The Apple Tree"

Original is 12" x 18" oil on panel

For Portfolio, I was being docked presentation points by my senior mentor whose name I shouldn't mention. He was telling me I had nothing to show but the finished pieces each critique. So on top of turning in two completed paintings, I did a full bleed value study for each one and printed out and mounted 4 process photos for both paintings to detail my process. The resulting presentation grade was 12/20.

yeah...

The Squid Dilly

#art #process #painting #oil #illustration #apple #tree #ipods #china #dillen #dillen le #artists on tumblr

Feb 25, 2013

The Squid Dilly

"Daphne" from start to finish!

11" x 17" pen & ink on board

see more works on my site :)

So I was going to incorporate pen and ink work into my portfolio since I was taking a class concurrently. However as everything spanned out, oil painting left little time to spare for tedious full bleed inkings. But who knows, maybe I'll do more some day :)

The Squid Dilly

#pen & ink #pen #ink #illustration #daphne #surreal #art #process #drawing #lines #linework #figure #tree #dillen #dillen le #artists on tumblr

Feb 25, 2013

The Squid Dilly

Close up of old painting "Deforest"

Original is 12" x 18" oil on panel

See the whole thing in my gallery!

The Squid Dilly

#painting #oil painting #oil #illustration #surreal #deforestation #deforest #trees #dead trees #egg #cracked egg #art #artists on tumblr #dillen le #dillen

Feb 25, 2013

The Squid Dilly

A poor little honey bee DIED on my painting!!! :( Keep scrolling left to see how DEAD it is!

So I just finished a fresh glaze and put this thing under my heat lamp to dry. I went to get some lunch and since it was summer I had the window open. I returned a couple hours later and apparently a bee had flown in, got attracted to the bright light, landed on my painting, GOT STUCK on the wet paint, and ROASTED TO DEATH.

I hope he'll be ok :(

#bee #painting #death #blue #nightwatch #art #oil #oil painting #dillen #dillen le #artists on tumblr

Feb 24, 2013

The Squid Dilly

"Deforest" from sketch to finish!

11" x 17" oil on panel

More in my gallery ;)

The sketch is done in graphite and is about 7" long. It was then scanned and printed out larger for transfer. This was my second portfolio painting. I was watching some horror movie and the image of a hatchet being driven into some dude's head inspired me. So... I decided to turn the message around! The narrative in the piece is fairly obvious. The loss and detriment a tree's spirit experiences is silent and often never heard, it is therefore up to us to ask our selves to listen.

The Squid Dilly

Feb 24, 2013

The Squid Dilly:

Ink wash value study

7" x 10.75" on watercolor paper

done for the painting "Dead Gardens"

See more on my website :)

The Squid Dilly

#Ink Wash #Illustration #surrealism #traditional #monochrome #value study #art #dillen #dillen le #artists on tumblr

Feb 24, 2013

The Squid Dilly

close up of old painting "Smoggy Mourn"

original is 11" x 17" oil on panel

see the more of it on my website!

Cheers,

The Squid Dilly

#painting #oil #oil painting #illustration #dog #head #woman #body #tree #leaves #dillen #le #dillen le #art #artists on tumblr

Feb 23, 2013

The Squid Dilly

Daily Squiddly! diddly squigly, squidilly deeds, squidilly doodles, daily doodles, yeah whatever....

I had in mind to draw something really ugly, putrid and appalling. Without realizing it had just drawn my friend from high school! I shouldn't not mention his name...

#sketch #doodle #graphite #pencil #drawing #face #portrait #tree #ugly #disgusting #dillen #dillen le

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