Recent portrait commissions:
Abbey and Lucy as puppies and as adult Shih Tzu. Portrait of Lucy is posthumous.
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| Abbey: 16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Lucy (Posthumous) 16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Lucy and Abbey Pups: 16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas |
"Our giant Pacific octopus seems to be enjoying his new wall art!"
(Display designed by Sharon Dean, Creative Accomplice, octopus art by David Lund)
Featured on the aquarium's Facebook page. The display is approximately fourteen feet wide overall. Original octopus art and cut-away art produced in Photoshop after a base rendering with watercolor. Many thanks to Sharon Dean and the Seattle Aquarium.
A Couple of Small Portrait Studies (done from candid iphone photos)
Each: 10" x 8" Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard panels. Canvas mounted using Yes glue and allowed to dry 24 hours. I had never used this procedure before or painted in oil quite this small......
My painting procedure was: The images were sketched onto the panels with graphite. An imprimatura using Raw Umber was applied thinned with Gamsol, then I used the "rub-out" or "wipeout" technique producing a toned rough grisaille. Lights and darks of umbers, ocher and white were painted into the wet underpainting and allowed to dry overnight. Overpainting was applied using fairly thick juicy paint with broad strokes not trying for tight detail.
Palette used for these little paintings: Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ocher, Flake White.
Medium used: Talens Van Eyck medium (an old medium containing lead, no longer available) thinned with gamsol.
An excellent resource about classical painting techniques is "Classical Painting Atelier" by Juliette Aristides (Watson-Guptil)
Each: 10" x 8" Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard panels. Canvas mounted using Yes glue and allowed to dry 24 hours. I had never used this procedure before or painted in oil quite this small......
My painting procedure was: The images were sketched onto the panels with graphite. An imprimatura using Raw Umber was applied thinned with Gamsol, then I used the "rub-out" or "wipeout" technique producing a toned rough grisaille. Lights and darks of umbers, ocher and white were painted into the wet underpainting and allowed to dry overnight. Overpainting was applied using fairly thick juicy paint with broad strokes not trying for tight detail.
Palette used for these little paintings: Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ocher, Flake White.
Medium used: Talens Van Eyck medium (an old medium containing lead, no longer available) thinned with gamsol.
An excellent resource about classical painting techniques is "Classical Painting Atelier" by Juliette Aristides (Watson-Guptil)
Illustration Served
Thanks to the Behance Network's Illustration Served site ( http://illustrationserved.com/ )
for featuring one of my portfolios in their current gallery showing ( April 10th ). The Behance
Network is one of the most professional of portfolio sites for artists and designers.
( http://behance.net/)
Thanks to the Behance Network's Illustration Served site ( http://illustrationserved.com/ )
for featuring one of my portfolios in their current gallery showing ( April 10th ). The Behance
Network is one of the most professional of portfolio sites for artists and designers.
( http://behance.net/)
Thanks Again to ArtSlant
Thanks to Artslant.com for selecting my artwork "Storm"
as a winner in the 1st 2011 Showcase Awards. The art was
produced as an india ink sketch using a bamboo pen and brush,
then washed and painted into with watercolor. Original art:
15"x 20" on Arches 140lb. Digital reproductions of this image
are offered for sale at Artslant.com
http://www.artslant.com/ew/artists/show/153595-david-lund?tab=AWARDS
Thanks to Artslant.com for selecting my artwork "Storm"
as a winner in the 1st 2011 Showcase Awards. The art was
produced as an india ink sketch using a bamboo pen and brush,
then washed and painted into with watercolor. Original art:
15"x 20" on Arches 140lb. Digital reproductions of this image
are offered for sale at Artslant.com
http://www.artslant.com/ew/artists/show/153595-david-lund?tab=AWARDS
Gert 2009 - 2010 R.I.P.
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Pastel on Strathmore 400
Gert, a Rhode Island Red passed away August 2010. Gert belonged
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Pastel on Strathmore 400
Gert, a Rhode Island Red passed away August 2010. Gert belonged
to Sarah (my daughter) and John, both college students in Ellensburg,
Washington. She was found in her coop unresponsive, no trauma, no
cause of death detected. She just died! Gert roamed the mini-farm
free when she chose and got along just fine with two big Labs and
the ducks in the pond. Gert is survived by her siblings Elanor [sic]
and Bernice. She will be missed.
November 2010 footnote: A Falcon killed both Elanor and Bernice.
Bummer!
Drawings From Old Sketchbooks
Drawings and sketches culled from drawing pads, journals,
sketchbooks and old files. Some fairly new but mostly old
sketches, some drawn from life, some drawn as comps for
commissioned projects and some as just studies for the fun
of it. Like most artists, I have dozens of sketchbooks, large
and small. My favorites the last few years are the Moleskine
books. I always have one with me, along with a small camera
wherever I go. My other drawing media are Strathmore
400 papers and pads for general use and a variety of other
papers for highly finished drawings.
Drawings and sketches culled from drawing pads, journals,
sketchbooks and old files. Some fairly new but mostly old
sketches, some drawn from life, some drawn as comps for
commissioned projects and some as just studies for the fun
of it. Like most artists, I have dozens of sketchbooks, large
and small. My favorites the last few years are the Moleskine
books. I always have one with me, along with a small camera
wherever I go. My other drawing media are Strathmore
400 papers and pads for general use and a variety of other
papers for highly finished drawings.
Thanks to Artslant
Thanks to Artslant.com for selecting my painting "Cake"
shown below in the Taxi post, as one of the winners in the
Artslant 3rd 2010 Showcase Awards.
http://www.artslant.com/ew/artists/show/153595-david-lund?tab=AWARDS
Taxi Website "Image of Today"
Art featured on Taxi's site April 7, "Image of Today".
Much thanks to Taxi for showing my work.
I have a portfolio listed with Taxi, a fine global creative
site based in Singapore. http://www.designtaxi.com/
Experimental Art
Raw Art
Experimental art created during college days, influenced by the art
of Jean Dubuffet, also Francis Bacon, Oskar Kokoshka, Alberto
Giacometti, et al. Jean Dubuffett (1901-1985) coined the phrase
Art Brut or "raw art" to describe his work at the time, (the 1940's).
He studied the art of psychiatric patients, children and other "naive"
or self-taught artists, and although seemingly comical and satirical,
Dubuffet's paintings harbor a mesmerizing quality. Also, English
critic Roger Cardinal used the phrase "Outsider Art" to describe
these types of non-conventional works- "outside the boundaries
of conventional culture".* [sic]
* Roger Cardinal, Outside Art, 1972
Mt. Olympus
Sketchbook drawings, done back in the Jurasic, inspired by photographs taken
by my brother and his two climbing partners on a winter ascent of the north face
of Mt. Olympus outside Salt Lake City--- a huge hunk of rotten rock, one would
be hard pressed to climb in the summer let alone in the winter. I have however,
always been proud of him for doing it.
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