Laura Krushak-Green Illustration

Superhero

2012-01-20T20:54:00.001-07:00

Pop Art Pet Paintings

2011-10-05T08:32:00.004-06:00

Here are some Pop Art dog and cat paintings that I have done lately.

I sell custom pet portraits in my etsy shop, as well as original paintings and prints. You can visit my etsy shop Here.

Just hanging out in the pasture.

2011-05-16T09:56:00.000-06:00

Cherry Blossoms

2011-05-02T20:05:00.002-06:00

Horse Illustration

2011-04-23T18:34:00.002-06:00

I took the colt character that I designed (in previous post) and put him into an illustration. It was a lot of fun!

Characterizing a Horse

2011-04-23T18:15:00.008-06:00

I decided that I wanted to try drawing stylized horses since. I took a reference photo of a horse and redrew it multiple times in different styles/characterizations. Then I chose my favorite character design and created a 9" tall 3D maquette using a wire armature and sculpey clay.

Sandcastle

2011-04-22T22:49:00.003-06:00

This was originally a piece I did when I was first learning how to do digital illustration, so now that I have a better understanding of how to paint digitally I decided I would refine it and change the little girl into the character style I have decided to use for all my other pieces.

Before and After

2011-04-22T14:19:00.002-06:00

Horse Anatomy

2011-04-10T21:43:00.002-06:00

Palette Exercise

2011-04-01T01:18:00.002-06:00

For these three pieces, I looked at other paintings or photographs with colors that appealed to me, broke the colors down to figure out how much of each color was used in the image and then applied it to my own illustration. This assignment was very helpful and is something that will definitely help me with figuring out nice colors for future illustrations.

Value, Saturation and Hue

2011-02-18T23:30:00.003-07:00

Using the contrast of value or saturation your eye should be led to a different focal point on the first two images. The last image is to show what would happen if there was no contrast of value or saturation but just hue (color).

Analogous Colors

2011-02-07T18:23:00.004-07:00

I tried two different analogous color schemes for this piece, I like the colors in the red/orange scheme but I think the Blue/Green one works for the mood!

Reading to Dogs..

2011-01-06T21:19:00.002-07:00

I decided to redo an old illustration I did for a story about a program where children can practice their reading skills with service dogs.

Pug Dog

2010-12-31T10:54:00.005-07:00

I decided to play around with some oil paint and did a small painting of a pug and one of these days it will dry...

Sikh Boy

2010-12-26T20:17:00.004-07:00

Playing around with a different style

2010-12-26T00:36:00.004-07:00

Pop Dogs and Cat

2010-12-23T18:21:00.004-07:00

Stubborn Pony

2010-12-14T20:45:00.002-07:00

Pirates

2010-11-24T21:01:00.001-07:00

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

2010-11-01T10:24:00.001-06:00

Caricature Self Portrait

2010-10-25T09:22:00.002-06:00

Cake

2010-10-17T22:36:00.004-06:00

Arbitrary Color Iceman

2010-10-11T09:47:00.002-06:00

Textured Painting

2010-10-05T19:33:00.001-06:00

An Apple

2010-09-19T20:54:00.003-06:00

Swimming

2010-08-23T23:46:00.002-06:00

Just a little character study of a little girl who's prepared to go swimming!

Mutton Bustin

2010-08-16T23:42:00.003-06:00

Pet Portraits

2010-04-18T20:09:00.005-06:00

I have been painting and selling custom pet (so far just dogs!) portraits on etsy.com I have really enjoyed working on paintings! I unfortunately lost a few images of the paintings I have done, but fortunately the customers I did them for were kind enough to send me photographs and for some of them I still had the Digital color study that I showed to the customer before starting the painting.

Digital Study- Reuben

Digital Study- Chloe

Digital Study- Poodles

Boston Terrier

Ozzie the Bee

Daisy

Marley

Spike

Frank

Gili

illustration friday: Fast

2009-10-29T19:10:00.004-06:00

A giant Rooster would be fast, especially with the right jockey.

I thought I would try something different than usual so I decided to do a colorful painting in watercolors.

Iowa State Fair

2009-09-24T16:24:00.002-06:00

Our assignment was to do an Advertisement for a product, or event. So I chose one of my favorite events, the Iowa State fair.

Picture Books in Winter

2009-08-20T10:07:00.003-06:00

This was an assignment to copy a work from a Golden Age Illustrator. I chose Jesse Wilcox Smith. The painting I chose was Picture Books in Winter. The first image is her painting.

First I did a line drawing of Picture Books in Winter, completely freehand no tracing.

I then had to freehand a value drawing in Charcoal.

And the final part of the project was to do a painting. This painting was done in acrylic paints watered down to be more like watercolors.

A few more media experiment projects

2009-08-19T13:09:00.003-06:00

Here are a few more of the Paintings I did in my Media Experimentation class

This picture is done by doing a line drawing which is reversed and printed and then transfered using a Chartpak Blender marker. This was then painted with Acrylics and his face was painted with Oil. This is a little boy I used to babysit trying to use his big eyes to persuade me to take him to play outside.

My friend Lizzie sat and posed while I took nearly 100 pictures of her for this project. This was the best choice. This is an Acrylic painting, it was painted in layers mixing the acrylic with gloss medium, then it was sanded with a wet sandpaper. It was a very fun project, and I am planning on trying it again.

While I was out at the Livestock center for one of my horse classes, I found a bucket of old discarded horse shoes, so I asked if I could borrow them. The first image is the original photograph. I then painted it using Acrylic paints.

This is Mr. Oswald posing in the sunlight. This painting was done by first doing a drawing using Charcoal and then painting over it with Gouache.

This was painting using a technique called Oil lift out. Thin washes of Oil paint are put down, and then using pure paint thinner the lighter values are lifted out.

Oil Photo Rendering

2009-04-12T13:58:00.004-06:00

This is my first Media Experimentation project, and the first time I actually understood how to use oil paint!

I used a photograph as a reference and tried to paint it to look as exact to the photo as I could.

I spent about 45 hours on this painting.

A few projects I have done lately

2008-10-17T21:30:00.009-06:00

This is a Boston Terrier that I did in a pop-art style. I have been working on the painting for awhile, but I finally put the finishing touches on it to make it look complete!

This summer I took a watercolor class, one of the places we went was a lot filled with Old Cars, it was definately my favorite project in the class! I never knew I would actually enjoy painting a car and I think I will have to practice drawing and painting some other old cars!

I've been working on drawing Horses because they have been difficult for me to draw in the past.

This is a Yellow-Headed Black Bird, I took his picture while I was in Grand Teton National Park. He sat there and let me get pretty close with my camera.

Watercolor

2008-03-10T14:35:00.002-06:00

I decided to try a watercolor portrait since I hadn't attempted to do one in around 5-6 years. I am looking forward to learning more techniques in my watercolor class this summer.