acrylic painting – Art of Angela DeRiso

Blank Canvases Painted

I posted some time back about a bunch of new canvases I had drawn designs on, and now they have been finished. I had another festival event last night, but no sales. However, I am learner to improve my table set up and preparing to get a tent and lights for other events.

In the meantime, here are all the new pieces.

Manatee Pair #2 11 — Manatee Pair #2
11″ x 14″

Leopard Dolphins 11 — Leopard Dolphins
11″ x 14″
(Interesting pattern lends itself to the name.)

Hammerhead Shark #4 11 — Hammerhead Shark #4
11″ x 14″

Seahorse Duet 12 — Seahorse Duet
12″ x 16″
(My Mom’s favorite piece so far)

Manta Ray & Remora Fish 12 — Manta Ray & Remora Fish
12″ x 16″

I have yet to paint the dragons I have on two other canvases, and I have some more realistic paintings I’m working on for a rabbit rescue organization in my area. I had several people ask me about painting their dogs, so that may be another avenue I will be working with as I get more canvases.

I will post again soon. Thanks for reading!

October 17, 2015October 17, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: art, artist, wildlifeTags: 3rd friday, acrylic painting, animals, art, art blog, artist, canvases, sealife Leave a comment

New work & Instagram

Sorry for the long wait between posts. I had to deal with the death of my Grandmother a few weeks back, and a lot has been going on after that. I will dedicate a post to her soon. I’m just not ready yet. Have to get everything written down for it.

In the meantime, I did get myself an Instagram account to spread my work out in the world. You can find me at the screen name “angela_deriso“. If you want updated art on the go, that’s where I’ll be posting it.

I’ve been working on some new pieces on canvases ranging from 11″ x 14″ to 12″ x 16”, and larger. Here are a few unpainted but drawn designs I have going at the moment.

Manta Ray. Remora fish were added later.

And since I had extra canvases… Dragons. 😀 I’m excited to see how they’ll turn out.

I also ended up making a gift of one of my paintings to my brother. He has loved my previous octopi paintings, so I sent him one in secret! He loved it, and called me just to say so. Definitely going to be trying this color scheme with a few other octopi.

I have been working on all of these in the last week, and my wrist has been twinging. Went and got a wrist wrap-thing to help. Only problem is that I can’t wear it to do the work. It restricts mobility somewhat.

More finished paintings will be posted soon.

PS:

I forgot this one was done.

Seaturtle with Jellies 16" x 20" — Seaturtle with Jellies
16″ x 20″

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: art, artist, wildlifeTags: acrylic painting, animals, art, art blog, artist, artist blog, canvas, canvas paintings, florida, sea turtle, wildlife Leave a comment

Keel Billed Toucan Painting

Tried something new in my painting. Instead of doing my usual tribal style, I decided to attempt something that would help sharpen my realism skill level. Here are the process photos.

Early stage. I had laid down flat base colors and was working on the foliage in the background.

Starting to add more definition to foliage. Some highlights to the toucan as well.

More work on the foliage highlights, and work on the toucan's beak. Adjusting some shades of the bird's yellow chest. — More work on the foliage highlights, and work on the toucan’s beak. Adjusting some shades of the bird’s yellow chest.

Nearly done. More work on foliage highlights and shadows. More overall highlighting on the toucan's body. — Nearly done. More work on foliage highlights and shadows. More overall highlighting on the toucan’s body.

Finally done, after adding some dark blue for shadows in the foliage, and finishing final toucan colors.

I’m pretty happy with how this 12″ x 16″ turned out. Nice and colorful while still reflecting accurate colors/shades of the toucan. The background was done from scratch with no reference.

August 10, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: UncategorizedTags: acrylic painting, animals, art, art blog, birds, toucan Leave a comment

Last Week’s Event & More Site Updates

Last week’s 3rd Friday went well again, though the turnout was a bit less on account of rainy weather. Sold about half my stuff, and still made decent cash. Instead of going nuts with the small canvases each month, I’m planning to have other products with artwork printed on them for each event, and to expand my overall base of sales. Going to try small quantities at first to see how each product type does.

In the meantime, here are photos from that evening. They are a bit low quality due to glare and my phone.

I have also done some updating to the pages on the site. The Pricing & Shipping page now has information for the canvas paintings, commissions, shipping, etc. The Portfolio page has been edited to reflect my best paintings, and a new page (Color Pencil) has been added for information and examples of my color pencil work.

I have to get busy painting, and figuring out the other products, costs, etc.

I’ll post again soon. Thanks,

July 21, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: UncategorizedTags: 3rd friday, acrylic painting, art, art blog, artist blog, beach, canvas paintings Leave a comment

Site Updates & Prepping For Event

I have been so busy painting like a machine this month for an upcoming event. I had several sets of cards printed of my new paintings, and I’ve been packaging some original drawings for sale as well. Only recently finished. I also had a decent job interview with a paint & sip place that’s going to be opening locally. If all goes well, I’m hoping I’ll be one of the art instructors there.

I just updated the pricing/shipping page to include specs for acrylic paintings. I still love my colored pencil work, but the paintings seem to be the better sellers at this point.

I only have a few things left to get for the event. I’m hoping we don’t get rained out, since it has been very stormy this week.

Here are some photos of the stuff I have ready.

cp-originals — Original color pencil drawing similarly styled to match my paintings.

Okay, that’s it for a quick update. If you want to see me, or buy anything you see here, my table will be in front of Cafe Orlando on Main St. in Safety Harbor on Friday (July 17th-this coming week) from 4pm-10pm. See you there!

July 12, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: art, artist, wildlifeTags: 3rd friday, acrylic painting, canvas, craft show, painting, safety harbor 2 Comments