Jan
22
This is another addition to my Mr Bean collection which I will be showing in its entirety in the coming days. I have a couple more that are almost finished. I will post these as I work on some pay jobs over the next couple of days here on Google+ and Facebook. This was a portrait of Thomas Howard by Hans Holbean – 1539. In the original painting he was holding two sticks that looked like pool sticks…?? Anyhow the hand position was good enough to insert a scandalous little touch. I’m going to try and have 30 pieces for the upcoming “Beanathon“. I hope you enjoy them.
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Jan
21
This is the latest edition to my Mr Bean collection. This time I’ve chosen a portrait of a young lady by William Bouguereau. I enjoy doing these painting manipulations because it’s always challenging matching color and texture. This is where I learn and develop new techniques. I especially enjoy creating new textures. In this manipulation, unlike most of my Bean manipulations, he looks sort of sad so I searched for female names in Greek and found the perfect one. Eugeneia, which in the Greek means “well worn”. Who wants a bride with the name well worn, hence “The Lonely Bride”. I never know what I’m going to come up with when I start these projects. If you look closely, you’ll see that the source image for this piece is the exact same one used in my last piece, just flipped.
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Jan
20
This is one of several more Mr Bean manipulations I’ll be doing in order to have enough material to hold (by request) my First Anual Mr Bean Virtual Gallery Showing. I think I have over 20 now so just a few more will do. I initially started doing Mr bean manipulations for 3 reasons. One, he has such a fun face and expressions that it’s always great therapy when times get stressful. Always relaxing. Second, He is by far the most popular character in my collection so I will continue to give the people what they want. And third, it’s just fun. There is actually one more reason and it’s a personal one for me. I love the character Mr Bean. Rowan Atkinson did a brilliant job portraying him. There’s a limited collection of photos of Mr Bean and there will never be any new ones since Rowan Atkinson retired the character. It’s nice to breath a little life back into some of these already iconic images with a little twist. Long live Mr Bean!
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Jan
16
This is a caricature study of Barack Obama. It’s been over a year since I’ve done one so it was due. I did many crazy exaggerations of Obama when I was doing Photoshop contests but back then I was more concerned with the image being as absurd as possible and not so much about likeness and more correct exaggerations. This piece is not meant to be funny. It’s simply a portrait study of Obama done for practice. I’ve been real busy lately with some projects that didn’t allow me time to do these kinds of works for practice so I was happy to be back at learning what I love. These projects I’ve been working on weren’t really show pieces either hence the lack of posts lately. I’ve also been spending a lot of time building my social network. Google+ has been real good to me so I’ve put a lot of time and effort into increasing my presence there. With 1.2 million followers after a little over a year, it’s well worth my time there. If you’re not there, come and join me some time at .
At the request of many of my friends, I will be doing a Beanathon soon as Mr. Bean has been by far my most popular character. I’m going to do a few more pieces so I’ll have around 25 manipulations in the collection.
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Jan
01
Happy New Year 2013! 2012 has been an awesome year for me but I’m looking forward to 2013. I think it’s going to be a great year. Thanks to all of you who have supported my blog and my work over the past year. I look forward to interacting with you in the new year, here and at all of my other sites. Please feel free to connect with me at any of my social media or portfolio sites.
What better way to ring in the new year than with Mr. Bean and a little help from a great American Illustrator, J. C. Leyendecker. The source image was a Saturday Evening Post Cover for New Years 1939. Happy New Year everyone!
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