Judaica show WIP and some caricatures

I have been working on this painting a bit here and there for a week or so.... It is going to be my submission for the Judaica show at Ringling. I am not really sure if I am done with it or not but it's is digital. Painted in photoshop. The portrait is of my Israeli friend, Hen, who traded me her I.D.F. (Israeli defense force) dogtags in exchange for a painting, and so the dogtags will be on display next to the piece as an installation in the show.


Here are a few caricatures from DFA class.....as a warm up for our self caricature assignment, we drew some people in class....here are a few of mine.

First Real Painting in Corel Painter

Character Designs for DFA

These characters were designed from silhouettes that I created using Corel Painter 11 and Adobe Photoshop CS5. The original silhouettes were just random strokes, so we had to turn them into some type of character during the revision process... it was a lot of fun to design these guys...

So over the summer I started sculpting a bust of Walt Disney. I worked on it a few times and got it to a pretty decent level of detail.....

Then I put it away for a few days (in moist plastic wrap)....... and it cracked......unfortunately.....but whatever.....it looks kinda cool.