A thread with artwork and words (Nov. 25th MASSIVE ART DUMPING)

**kevinwueste** · January 23rd, 2012, 11:40 AM

lovely works! your color sense is powerful.

-kevin

**dU5K** · January 23rd, 2012, 12:35 PM

wow man. wow. very nice updates. u keep getting better and better. ive really been enjoying reading some of ur posts as well, especially the one about the workshop. ive definitely learned a couple of those things from just messin up on my own but im for sure taking some of those things into practice. keep up the incredible progress

**Adam Nowak** · January 27th, 2012, 06:45 AM

Justas - I saw your thread, very cool abstract/representational mix.

kevin - Thank you very much!

dU5K - Thank you for looking through man, I love to talk and discuss this stuff but then again I'm just a guy who doesn't know too much yet anyways so...

**Adam Nowak** · February 1st, 2012, 04:41 AM

Not so good gestures and a portrait! My good friend Toussaint posed for a group of friends after school for 6 hours straight! Great pose, and great outfit which we needed to undo a bit to get it wild and messy.

**Toffers** · February 3rd, 2012, 07:45 PM

I have to say that I get very easily trapped
in your sketchbook. I can look at this stuff
for pretty much hours on end. Pretty damn
impressive.

I'm primarily a digital painter myself, and I'll
probably stay that way all my life, but I like
to paint with oils from time to time, every
other day. I'm just wondering if you have
any tips that you can give me, a rundown of
what you do in every painting or something,
since I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't
really have anyone I know that paints
professionally with oils, so I ask you.

Thanks for sharing this stuff, I'll be looking forward to more!

**Bakker** · February 4th, 2012, 12:51 AM

Great stuff ones again, your like a machine, like a painting factory

2cent: it looks like your paint supports your subject, you study the subject and paint accordingly and you do it pretty darn well. Maybe it'll help you if you turn it around. Let the subject support(guide) the paint. like for example lucian freud tries to do, Rembrand didn't suck either.
If this makes any sense

Ramp it up!

Love your posture studies, nice line weight.
Thanks for the updates.

**John Zylstra** · February 4th, 2012, 04:25 PM

Would really like to see the drawings in person, dood. You're the man with the plan.

**Adam Nowak** · February 11th, 2012, 12:30 AM

Toffers - I'm flattered by your comment but in no means am I a professional. I've only been doing this for 2 years so there's quite a lot I don't know. Also by the looks of it, you have a good feel for digital already, really. Keep focused on areas where you feel like you need to improve more than others. As I see it, that would be anatomy and proportions for your figures, everything else is coming along. I don't have a completely flat routine of the way I do things, but generally I love to tone the canvas and let it peek through, start out with either a color block in or more linear drawing, and then pick a spot where I can compare every stroke I make to. All the while thinking of the fundamentals, value, color, temperature, light source, form, edges, not in that particular order. One day I'll get some kind of amateur process together.

Bakker - I know what you mean, I think that will come.

John - And you have already. Will do.

Have a few more portraits up as always. Those always get done at a steady rate with so many opportunities to paint people all week.

1 -11 x 17, 3 hour alla prima. Same person as a fw weeks back, sans beard.

2 - 9 x 12 (?), 6 hours over three days. Small portrait trying to capture a very cool, singular light source directly above.

3 - 6 x 4, quick 2 hour color study of the next painting which is just a grisaille in raw umber that I should have spent more time on but only had about an hour.

**Mike L** · February 11th, 2012, 12:40 AM

This is just tremendous work, your colour choices are quite stunning in the portraits, love how you've modelled the form with so few strokes in post#422...
Thanks for posting, and looking forward to more

**vineris** · February 11th, 2012, 02:01 AM

Oh hey, I've seen your work in the Painters group on deviantArt. Lovely portraits! I've been admiring them there for a while.

**Bakker** · February 11th, 2012, 03:07 AM

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1328937022 is very nice, it doesn't look like you spend 2h on it

it looks like it was alrdy there and you just found it. if that makes any sense

Love it.

thnx

**Marian Rowling** · February 12th, 2012, 05:20 AM

Hey Adam you know I am a big fan and enjoy all your updates. I really like the feel of the cool light you captured in the ladies portrait. Has a wonderful sense of stillness about.

**Adam Nowak** · February 14th, 2012, 05:05 AM

Thank you everyone! I had some recent 20 minute charcoal sketches and and a 4.5 hour portrait.

**tehmeh** · February 14th, 2012, 05:16 AM

solid updates as ever man, loving that last post.

**Mane** · February 14th, 2012, 01:07 PM

o man those sketches are an absolute joy to look at, is this a new style your playing with?

**lennon** · February 14th, 2012, 01:29 PM

Great portarits!

**Marian Rowling** · February 15th, 2012, 03:32 AM

What expressive drawings, I really have to work towards your level as they look fab. Beautiful colours in the portrait as well.

**Adam Nowak** · February 17th, 2012, 02:40 AM

Thank you everyone, I'm really glad you all enjoy the last post! I've always wanted to kind of explore drawing this way, I think glimpses of it can be seen in the past, but I still struggle with everything very much so I'm trying really hard to get there. I have some more portraits! Like always! This time two alla primas and one glaze. I included the WIP shot just so you can see how not to glaze like an idiot. The underpainting was done with Raw Umber and White which I never tried before but I really like the look of it that way, probably why so many people start like that. I went way too dark so I spent some time trying to lighten that up. Also, drawing's way off, I wanted to get into glazing so instead of trying to get the drawing right, I tried to fix it later in the painting.

**towy** · February 17th, 2012, 03:16 AM

i miss doing oil painting now because of you haa
dont stop

**Adam Nowak** · February 18th, 2012, 12:09 PM

towy - I won't, and pick it back up when you get a chance.

Some more recent gestures from the Palette.

**matejkovacic** · February 18th, 2012, 01:12 PM

Thanks for the inspiration! Great works!

**Mosheim** · February 18th, 2012, 02:25 PM

Nice work. The quickness of your strokes and the impasto are excellent.

**Marian Rowling** · February 19th, 2012, 03:45 AM

ha ha Adam I really am enjoying these drawings as much as your paintings. I always enjoy seeing how much you've progressed with each post. Very inspiring.

**kevinwueste** · February 19th, 2012, 05:57 PM

Adam, these gestures are pretty great - there are many ways to "skin the cat" ...

-Kevin

**Adam Nowak** · February 20th, 2012, 10:09 PM

matejkovacic & Mosheim - Thank you!

Marian Rowling - Thank you Marian, I always appreciate you popping in.

kevinwueste - Thanks again Kevin.

Misha is a Russian sculptor who emigrated to the US back in the 80's. His website's here, along with his fathers art, which is pretty beast. http://mishafromminsk.com/index.php

11 x 17 4.5 hours at the Palette and Chisel today. Tons of fun, just going, going, going.

**ezekrialase** · February 20th, 2012, 10:42 PM

I absolutely love your portraits!

**Adam Nowak** · March 14th, 2012, 11:16 PM

Thank you ezekrialase!

Recent alla prima portraits, figures, a plein-air study, and a self portrait. I wanted to observe more of the space around me, the warm and cool lights from my friends who were all working on their own paintings. The plein air was done in a 4 hour session in Lincoln Park. There were small patches of snow still left over from the last snowstorm we had here sitting on the tree trunk reflecting in the high sun at noon.