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Figure Study Adrienne

Bragino — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:00:37 +0000

Here's 4 image from a one night session with Adrienne, aka "Apathy Angel". Adreinne is an amazing model and a Burlesque performer. The thing that sticks out to me about this series of drawings is the consistency of image. To me that means that she looks like the same person in each drawing which is something I've been working hard to do, make each model look like themselves. It's easier said than done but in this instance I feel like I've done a good job of keeping her looking like herself and I'm proud of myself for that.

Figure Study June

Bragino — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:00:44 +0000

I'd like to thank the lovely model Sara for this pose. Sometimes a pose feels more authentic than other times. In this particular instance the pose had weight, mood, and a presence that helped drive my image making. I felt as if I was witnessing a private moment in this woman's life that was weighted with thought and reflection. I really love the way this turned out…

The Mothership

Bragino — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:42:16 +0000

Just to illustrate the way my mind thinks I offer this. As an artist I'm in continual search of understanding about form, scale, invention, imagination, and color. Sometimes I see something and I can imagine it as something else as we've all done from time to time. I was recently upstate and while driving I noticed this enormous cloud and immediately saw the mothership from District 9. Well it wasn't actually the same shape but the scale of it just screamed alien invasion. So here's what I painted in photoshop and below is the original photograph that I took which sparked the idea. It's more of an exercise in color. How to paint in a ship that appears to be in the actual scene. I think I did a pretty decent job for a 30 minute sketch. With more time and some attention to detail this ship might just abduct someone….

The Mother Ship

Original photo

Bragino Sketch 100607

Bragino — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:13:35 +0000

Using the Sketchpad on my blog I created this.

I was explaining to a friend the use of contrast or lack thereof to depict distance in a landscape image so today I decided to draw this image and play with the concepts myself. There is also the theory of warm colors vs cool colors in being able to show distance…Distance is shown here by creating less detail in the distance or (background) of this image. The colors used in the background are also cooler colors as compared to the middle ground (really warm and colorful stuff). Then the foreground is established by using lots of detail and the darkest color (black). Usually only the foreground will have high contrast or the use of black/ darker colors in relation to really light colors. These are all things that can be observed naturally outdoors. I am using the concepts and creating my own colors/ arrangement of colors to illustrate this. It's a game of sorts. Take a concept and try it out. That's what I've done here….

Brooklyn Wall Mural

Bragino — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:09:17 +0000

Upon the roof of my gallery there's a huge wall that was looking too bare and just needed a little love. Armed with some house paint and an assortment of spray cans we decided to make something more eye pleasing on the wall. This mural, like most collaborative work I've done with Kevin, was an improvisational effort. We had a few things in mind to guide us. We wanted it to have warm tones and feel a little bit dated as if it had been there for a while. We achieved this feeling with the colors that we used. Usually subject matter and color are two good ways to keep you on track when your creating something in an improvisational manner. Here's the sequence of images on how this mural came to be…..

Custom Converse

Bragino — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:00:04 +0000

Well it's about time I customized something for me and my brand new Converse Chuck Taylor's were the perfect place to start..I won't bore you with too many words but I do want to tell you how I did them. Real quick. I drew the designs with a regular Sharpie marker, then I airbrushed the colors around the designs. That's it. Pretty simple…..

Town Farm Barn

Bragino — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:57:29 +0000

Here's one of the illustrations that I did when I was on the farm. There are about 9 more spot illustrations like this one that I'll put into a later blog post. I feel like I learned quite a bit about drawing structural items, as in buildings, and inanimate objects in general when I was doing these illustrations. Usually things that have mechanical structure seem to be a little hard to grasp. I think we generally try to draw them "architecturally perfect" which in my opinion can suck the life right out of the drawing and out of the object being drawn. I feel that I was successful in allowing not only the drawing to have life but the structure as well. It's kind of like a caricature but without the gross exaggeration that you would normally associate with it. I feel like the drawing and the object have both been allowed to breath. More of these illustrations coming soon…..

Town Farm 2

Bragino — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:00:13 +0000

Here's another drawing I did for the Farm as a gift to my friends for putting me up for the weekend. This one's on a wooden plate with a Bic pen and was painted with water colors to match their kitchen…

Town Farm

Bragino — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:00:07 +0000

Located in Ledyard, Ct there sits an old farm house that two of my friends are revitalizing and reopening as an organic farm this year. Together we're working on a logo, and some tshirt designs for the upcoming season. I spent about 4 days drawing around the farm and creating art to jump start the creative process. Here's one of the pieces that I made on a piece of wood. It's a great old fence that they have and probably one of my favorite visual aspects of the farm.

The drawing was done with a Bic pen which works really well on wood…

Here's the same wood panel painted in with water colors….

My favorite picture of the area taken with the Hipstamatic camera on my iPhone

Killington VT wall mural

Bragino — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:00:11 +0000

I had the pleasure of helping my brother John B move up to Killington this winter to pursue his love of snowboarding and become an instructor on the mountain. While in town I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by some amazing people who were more than supportive of me as an artist. So I did what any artist in good company would do, I created a lot of art on my visit. I did a portrait, sketchbook
journaling, tattoos on friends with markers, drawings on snowboard helmets, custom designed boxes and to top it all off an impromptu wall mural in my brothers apartment. My favorite part of this mural? Well of course it's the feeder fish following our friend the shark pictured below. Sorry about the less than great quality of the images but all I had was my phone to capture this one…..