Halloween Mask – Painting
Posted: October 28, 2012 Filed under: Sketchbook | Tags: art, artwork, dark, drawing, eye, halloween, illustration, mask, masquerade ball, night, painting, portrait Leave a commentI started this painting a few days ago with the thought that I wanted to create something a bit different form my normal artwork. To be suitably Halloween themed, I gave the subject matter a more dark and creepy feel. While working on it, I developed a rather detailed back-story for the character, but I’d love to hear your feelings of the piece and what you think it is about.
Halloween Mask Painting by Nicole Cleary
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Abstract Painting “Eye Can See”
Posted: August 20, 2012 Filed under: Sketchbook | Tags: abstract, art, design, digital, drawing, eye, graphic, painting, photoshop 2 CommentsIn this painting I was playing with the relationships of different human features, abstracted to convey their similarities.
“Eye Can See” – Abstract digital painting by Nicole Barker
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Eye – ipad sketch
Posted: March 3, 2012 Filed under: Sketchbook | Tags: art, artwork, eye, green, ipad, portrait, realistic, sketch 17 Comments
Eye - ipad sketch by Nicole Barker
This is the first sketch I ever created on my iPad. I was using the sketchbook pro iPad app and my new pogo stylus. After testing out the way the iPad app registered my brush-strokes, I would highly recommend the sketchbook Pro app, but found the pogo stylus to be inaccurate and cumbersome. It never seemed to paint where I wanted it to on the tablet. Later, I started using the soft-touch stylus and found drawing and painting much easier. Unlike the pogo stylus, it provides much-needed resistance against the tablet’s surface. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is frustrated using their finger or another stylus to paint on their iPad.
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Nicole M. Cleary 