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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…

Natural Jewelry

Bragino — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:51:37 +0000

Just spent 7 days camping in the Allegheny National Forrest at the 2010 National Rainbow Gathering and was able to make this jewelry headpiece with all natural materials that were gathered from the floor of the Forrest.

Even the green "string" seen on the side here was found in the forrest. You'll notice that different materials have different tensile strength and can be used to tie things together, you just have to hunt around for them….

Princess of the Forrest Gillian..

New website design

Bragino — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:01:40 +0000

Here's my newest blog design. This is the 6th or so different website configuration that I've had since I first got a website back in 1998. There's actually been about 4 or 5 more designs but most of them, although they were complete working websites, never made it to the web or were only up for a few months. For arguments sake I offer Version 6. It's basically a very simple and clean design. I hope this makes your time on my site more enjoyable….

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