Oscar Arroyo

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Beauty Of The California Landscape Show

SOLD
"interrupted beauty"

oil on masonite board. 7 x 16

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"the towers of power"

oil on canvas, 9 x 12

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"one down a lifetime to go"

oil on panel, 8 x 10

framed and ready for the show!

the tide of time

"I'm a little teapot"

oil on panel, 4 x 10

SOLD

"Pile of ideas"

oil on panel, 6 x 8

"the face of God"

oil on panel 8 x 10

Saturday, September 5, 2009

it's been a while

I've been working on many different subjects!
still enjoying the drawing sessions every Monday and Thursday,
just been too lazy to update this damn thing!

SOLD
"Are those oranges? I want one!"

oil on cardboard

3 x 7

painted this today en plein air,

made it pretty quick, but not quick enough, i started shortly before sunset and the time caught up to me, things started to change very fast! but i had made a map of color if you will that was enough to use as a basis for what little detail was left.

I enjoyed working with such a small space, it forced me to work in large shapes and not concentrate on details (my weakness)

"Jenny"

oil on panel 8 x 10

Wilma! (at her 80's prom)

oil on panel

8 x 10

"the muse"

oil on panel

8 x 10

for these three paintings, i used charcoal drawings i made at the Monday and Thursday night drawing sessions as reference, it was cool working only from shape and value, black and white drawing, i had complete freedom with choosing what color to use, though i did use my memory as to what our model Jennifer was wearing that night.

I liked the freedom, might do many more like this, the style wasn't exactly what i envisioned, but it is very close, not bad for the first, second and third try, i plan to do more.

"Schism"

oil on panel

4 x 6

Untitled

oil on panel

4 x 6

untitled

oil on panel

6 x 8

these last three pieces are from my "Imagination Phase" that hit me a few weeks ago.

i was kind of bored and felt a little lost with the direction i was heading in, so i took a break and did a bunch of doodling while i thought myself to death!

i needed that break, to clear my mind, from a few of the drawings i made during that period i made these paintings, i considered moving towards that direction instead, maybe joining the Pop Surrealism crowd, but after the third painting of the dude with the mustache, i didn't feel it anymore, the block had worked itself out and now i wanted to go back to what i was doing before, so i did.

the first piece, the one titled "Schism" comes from an image i get everytime i hear the song "Schism" by Tool, there's a whole story that takes place when i hear that particular song, and this is a scene from the beginning of the story.

Friday, June 12, 2009

rubik's cube

Rubik's Cube
Oil on Panel
6 x 8

it is way easier to solve this thing than to paint it!
not so happy with it, the photograph does not do the painting justice,
but something is off, i think i might have to either work on it some more,
or do another

Either way, this is part one of three,
my initial plan was to make 3 paintings,
the first shows the cube unsolved,
the second shows the cube half way done,
and the third shows the cube in it's completed form