2018 Finger Paintings!

[D Akey]

So are these from life of National Geographic or some in-flight magazine? I would be amazed if you were seeing all this color on your travels. It would be an amazing travel journal of an artist. So in response to what you mentioned, this is far from a dull subject. Nice painting.

[Chad Weatherford]

Oh they are from my travels, but most of the China sketches are from photos I took and memory. I blocked them in real loose and dirty at the end of each day while the scene was somewhat fresh in my mind, and used the photos for detailing later. It was too regimented of a trip to be able to paint much live unfortunately. The few live ones I did were mostly around my hotel.

[Chad Weatherford]

Finger paint day 29. Sketch of a pooch from a photo I took in Huanglongxi ancient village.

[damasocl]

Great... Your textures are amazing!!!

[D Akey]

The dog looks worried. Maybe I'm projecting

Still loving the colors and painterly marks. Another bull's eye the kind that's painted burnt sienna as opposed to cadmium red.

[Lord Whinknshire]

Your paintings are AMAZING! And to do them with your finger WOW!
The textures in the back ground of the dog one how is it you achieved That?
And how do you go about starting one of these paintings

[gxhpainter]

love your use of a natural pallet of color in your works, that blends well with your expressive style...

[Chad Weatherford]

The dog looks worried. Maybe I'm projecting

Still loving the colors and painterly marks. Another bull's eye the kind that's painted burnt sienna as opposed to cadmium red.

Ha I thought he looked tired, but maybe that is me projecting. Thank you very much!

[Chad Weatherford]

Your paintings are AMAZING! And to do them with your finger WOW!
The textures in the back ground of the dog one how is it you achieved That?
And how do you go about starting one of these paintings

Thanks so much for the compliment and question. Regarding the process, I think I recorded a script for that one. I'm going to get the desktop version of AR soon and then I can share the recording. My process isn't real linear, and sometimes I take it back and forth from AR to Photoshop so it ends up being more of a hybrid painting than a pure finger paint. The dog though is 98% AR. The texture you are asking about is just pencil tool and dry brushing over an actual oil painting Image that had a nice orange palette. Sometimes over the course of creating one of these I'll find it gets too predictable or same-y looking with the brushstrokes. When that happens I'll pull in a painting image and mess with the layer blending mode to get an abstract texture that 'messes up' the surface again. That process gives me all sorts of analog looking artefacts and a little chaos that I like.

[Chad Weatherford]

love your use of a natural pallet of color in your works, that blends well with your expressive style...

Thank you!