Here are some images of my painting “The Student” that was part of the same photo shoot as “Chopping Lessons” [...]
April 26, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
April 22, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
As soon as I heard about The Future Generations Art Prize, I began planning the paintings I would submit. The show will be held in my birth country, Ukraine, and the grand prize is 100K! An opportunity I couldn’t miss out on.
March 22, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
Looking back at my tutorials on drawing the head, I realized that I covered individual features, but completely left out hair. This tutorial will is split into 3 parts: The Basics, Types of Hair, and a Step by Step drawing.
January 27, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
For this painting, I knew that the powerful value contrast was very important. I wanted to keep the colors muted (staying in the grey and brown range) and exaggerate the values. So I did a value comp in Photoshop [...]
January 25, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
So, at this time of year, like many others, I start planning my year and make new year’s resolutions. This year, I decided to make 1 career goal and 1 personal goal [...]
January 10, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
For the alla prima wet-into-wet oil painter - I recommend putting 1-2 drops of Clove Oil on each color on your palette when you’re working on a longer studio painting. This will slow down the dry time of the oil paint.
January 4, 2010 – By Stan Prokopenko
It’s finally finished! Feels good to close this chapter, since I put so much time and effort into it. Scaling up to 24 x 36 from a 4 x 6 color comp was a bit tricky [...]
December 15, 2009 – By Stan Prokopenko
A few days ago I was every excited to find that all the paintings can be viewed online for the 2010 Masters of the West show at the Autry Museum [...]
December 9, 2009 – By Stan Prokopenko
One of the best things about painting a landscape is that it’s not a portrait. You have a lot more freedom to change shapes and move things around. As soon as I realized that I don’t have to get every shape the right size and in the right place, I loosened up and started designing my own shapes [...]
November 28, 2009 – By Stan Prokopenko
The zoo trip turned out to be a great success! The bears were very active, giving me many angles and poses to choose from. I ended up with almost 400 photos [...]
