I’ve got to figure out what I’m doing with the center portion. I’ve got a few ideas, we’ll see what works best.
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A new WIP
Posted in animals, Art, Hybrids, Technique, woodburning with tags Chicago artist, griffin, lion, mythical, old scratch, pyrography, Woodburn on May 17, 2011 by scratchybThrillist writeup and other updates
Posted in Art with tags Chicago, Chicago artist, creatures, Eric Battaglia, Etsy, monsters, old scratch, pyrography, skull priest, Thrillist, Woodburn on April 15, 2011 by scratchybI got a little write-up in Thrillist recently. That was cool to see, and I’ve noticed some increased traffic to my Etsy shop.
Speaking of which, I’ve posted a couple of new wood-burn and acrylic pieces on Etsy. I’m trying to get a group of these smaller paintings out there before I start work on some of the larger ideas I have, since I already know those are going to be more involved.
Skull Priest started out as a design for a linocut, and then was turned into this woodburn. I’m basically fulfilling my need to mess with Aztec and Mayan influences here.
Siblings was going to be more of the Aztec influence, but I’m seeing a lot more Wild Thing here. What do you think?
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My attempts at abstract
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Art, artwork, Chicago artist, Egypt, Eric Battaglia, Etsy, gifts, old scratch, original art, Painting, Process, pyrograpny, Woodburn on March 18, 2011 by scratchybI don’t know if you can call these properly abstract. I’ve been experimenting a little bit beyond the figurative, that’s weird for me. These are woodburn paintings. I burned in the design and then painted around it with watercolor and acrylic.
I’ve not been blogging lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on anything. I’ve got this Egypt themed box and a few other things up my sleeve that I’ll be posting about soon.
This stuff’s going to be posted to my Etsy store soon.
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Illustration Friday–Reverse
Posted in Art, comics, Illustration Friday with tags Chicago artist, Eric Battaglia, Illustration Friday, old scratch, Pen and ink, reverse, tree, watercolor on February 7, 2011 by scratchyb
The latest for Illustration Friday. The theme is “Reverse.”
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Illustration Friday–Chicken
Posted in Art, Illustration Friday with tags Chicago artist, chicken, digital, eggs, Eric Battaglia, Illustration Friday, old scratch, Pen and ink, Photoshop, poultry, watercolor on January 18, 2011 by scratchyb
For Illustration Friday 1/14, the topic was “chicken”. I did this in watercolor and ink, and then I scanned it and fixed as many of the more glaring mistakes as I could in Photoshop. I’m not big on actually composing an illustration digitally, mainly because I can’t afford the right tools and simply spend way too many hours staring at a screen to devote any further time than I have to. Still, it comes in handy for little things like thickening the lines bordering the egg whites and yolk.
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