NICOLE GALINATO

Mask: Acrylic, cardboard, feathers, plastic gems, elastic, brass brads Branch Out: Mask Fabrication A side project made from things in my art drawer. As halloween approaches, I wanted to create a mask to pair with an ordinary party dress for a masquerade. Acrylic paint, feathers, plastic gems, elastic, and brass brads helped turn this cardboard mask template into an interesting headpiece.

  Here's some work in progress on a digital painting I've been working on here and there. I've decided to use this piece to expand on my skills and tackle realistic lighting on skin, cloth textures, and incorporating contrasting colors to expand my color palette. I started with a line drawing in Photoshop, a character standing in a low lit alley on a cobblestone street. I considering clothing design choices involving different textures that I could explore in low lighting, emphasizing shadows and wrinkles, as well as any sharp highlights. I then made my general color choices for the character, keeping them in and around the orange range so that my shadows can complement them well with a base of purple. I also decided at this point, I'd try to recreate the feel of candle light.      Considering I'd never done a digital paint this detailed, I started with the head of the character, so I could establish more clearly for myself exactly where and how ...

So I recently obtained a tablet and therefore am going to try updating works and processes more often as they come up, starting with this year's Christmas with my family. Usually we get the tree, decorate and the whole shebang, but this year, due to having the first holiday break with no deadlines over my head and nothing that needed to be done, (and therefore a very unnerving lull in work) I decided I'd make the tree and décor. How does one make a tree you ask? With things around the house of course. I started with the initial idea of using aluminum wire and some of the several boxes of Bendaroos (colored wax covered string sticks) we needed to use up. Then, after seeing I didn't quite have enough wire to build what would look like a real tree with branches and all, I had to change my strategy and make the bendaroos cover more ground while considering my other limited supplies, and keeping design in mind. I then realized the best use of wire was the spiral cone, ...

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"Glass" - Photoshop + Wacom tablet This is a Photoshop painting exercise I did for fun to create a photorealistic image of a drinking glass. It was interesting working from reference with the negative space and working with the lighter colors on the dark background. It was surprising while I was working on it to see how depending on where and how sharp or dull certain highlights were, it could either successfully look like plastic or glass. I was going for the latter.