September 07, 2008

Little Ninja Card

Lately I've been buried in design work (gotta pay the bills!), but I had a quick chance to paint this little business card-sized ninja today. I'll be doing several more tiny paintings to bring down to LA next week to dish out to people, perhaps. Our trip is for fun, and hopefully I'll run into some cool artist folks while we're there if we're lucky. I'll be headed to Lynne Naylor's solo show at MModern Gallery on the 13th. Anyone else going?

2" x 3.5" cel vinyl acrylic on watercolor paper.

9 comments:

Dan said...

Hah, great stuff man, super cute.

PJS said...

haha, that's great! Did you use a frisket/cel?

matt dawson said...

Your little business card paintings are really nice work... I hope they get you noticed! Thanks for sharing your process on the blog, very interesting to see... I must work on my acrylic/gouache skills, gives me something to aim for! Thanks also for the Sam Jack background posts...in fact great blog all round sir! Thanks for the kind words about mine, glad you like my humble offerings.

Drake Brodahl (pumml) said...

Thank you, kindly Sirs!

Patrick, don't worry. No friskets or cels were harmed in the making of this painting. All done with simple, layered brushwork.

Mike Terry said...

Good textures! Keep em coming.

Andy said...

Haha! I almost said "nice palette knife work!" You're too good with a brush my friend. Can't wait to see more!!

Unknown said...

beautiful!!

Johannes Liehr said...

really great. i love the ninja! i think it would make a gorgeous plush toy!!!

Drake Brodahl (pumml) said...

Your comments are much appreciated, everyone!

Hitspitter - Thanks for the suggestion!