Commissions

While commissions can be both awesome and extremely frustrating, the process that the artist goes through is rarely seen by the commissioner. I am in the process of doing a piece and thought it would be cool to post pics throughout the whole thing...The piece will eventually be of the same style as the lower two pieces, but the same overall process was used throughout...I basically start with alrge blocks of color, working from an abstract compostion from the colors intended to form the majority of the finished piece. Through this, I not only can kick off a piece pretty quickly, but you can get a pretty good idea of the general look of the finished piece...and every once in a while the abstracted start actually is cool enough to keep for an entirely separate piece and start the commission over on a new canvas!

stage 1 (color blocks, outline, backing color)

and then eventually a piece goes from stage 1 to finished and the piece will looking something like this.....