[toddblakemanart]

"Bosco & Bibi" 24"×36" oil on linen. 2017. #petportrait #blackandwhite #oilsketch #toddblakeman #longbeachca (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

Skunk skull was shipped to Oregon last weekend, so its missing. Here are the remaining Strada 31 sketches I have in black and white, bc that's the real test anyway 💀 #stradaeasel #toddblakeman #longbeachca (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

Thanks for this amazing challenge and opportunity @bryanmarktaylor @strada_easel 👍✌👊 tonight's effort, a tape measure. Oil on panel, life sized. About 45 minutes. Strada 31 challenge #stradaeasel day 31!!! (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

Empire Torpedo Level, oil on panel, life sized. #allaprima #oilpainting #fromlife #toddblakeman #longbeachca Strada 31 #stradaeasel day 30!!! (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

My trusty ol' Estwing. Life size. Oil on panel. About 40 minutes. #allaprima #oilpainting #toddblakeman #longbeachca Strada 31 #stradaeasel day 29.................. (at Long Beach, California)

[visualjunkee]

‘LOVING VINCENT,’ an Animated Film Featuring 12 Oil Paintings per Second by Over 100 Painters

‘Loving Vincent’ will be the world’s first feature length painted animation, with every shot painted with oil paints on canvas, just as Van Gogh himself painted. Written & Directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, produced by Poland’s BreakThru Films & UK’s Trademark Films.  The film is scheduled for a 2017 release.

“Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who traveled from all across Europe to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production.”

“The film was first shot as a live action film with actors then hand-painted over frame-by-frame in oils. The final effect is an interaction of the performance of the actors playing Vincent’s famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters into the medium of paint.”

“Loving Vincent is an investigation delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world’s most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them,”

“The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.”

[toddblakemanart]

Pencil sketch #study

[toddblakemanart]

Art Mash!!! #allaprima #nocturne #oilsketch #toddblakeman #longbeachca #stradaeasel day 28 (at Lyon Art Supply)

[toddblakemanart]

Squeezed in a solid 40 minute sketch just now with a cigar box. I switched up a few colors on my palette right before painting, too. There's only so much you can do with a poorly lit panel and mixing area. I tried to make it work, considering. Strada 31 challenge #stradaeasel day 27 #allaprima #pleinair #nocturne #oilsketch #toddblakeman #longbeachca 👉👌👇 (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

freehand sketch #study

[toddblakemanart]

Last night's alla prima oil sketch, true values. Only used titanium white, ivory black, burnt sienna and yellow ochre, sorta Zorn-ish I suppose. I like this a lot. Too bad it'll probably just sit in a closet forever but that's how the cookie crumbles...... Strada 31 challenge #stradaeasel day 27 (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

I really want to build myself a legit shadow box sometime soon.... Skunk skull, about an hour. No where close to enough time to finish, but great to get even a small amount of panting in today. #allaprima #stillife #oilsketch #toddblakeman #longbeachca #newwaveart #rosemaryandco Strada 31 challenge #stradaeasel day 26. Cheers 🙌 (at Long Beach, California)

[toddblakemanart]

Wasn't able to paint the today #Sketch #fromlife today instead upon Metro Blue Line on my way to @safehouseatelier to watch the @davidkassan drawing demo. Strada 31 challenge #stradaeasel day 25...... (at Vernon Blue Line Station)

[toddblakemanart]

Different angles of the horizon. Probably around 90 minutes spent on these 4 #oilsketches. Lucked out... finished up right before the rain started to come down again. Strada 31 #stradaeasel day 12 ✌ (at Granada Beach: Long Beach)

[toddblakemanart]

Yesterday's #pleinair sketches. By the time I got to the bottom right sketch the sun had completely fallen and I was guessing at a lot of values, another 15 or 20 minutes of light could've really helped. Overall satisfied with these studies. Strada 31 #stradaeasel day 11...

[toddblakemanart]

Chasing light...4"x5" x 4 oil sketches, about 20 minutes each @strada_easel #stradaeasel Strada 31 Day 11 (at Long Beach Museum of Art)

[toddblakemanart]

Today I painted these four sketches on an 8x10" panel in a little over an hour. Next time I'm going to have 2 or 3 panels with me. The sky kept getting more expressive as the sun dropped. #pleinair #oilsketch #longbeachca "Practice over performing" - @bryanmarktaylor @strada_easel #stradaeasel Strada 31, Day 10✌ (at Long Beach, California)