THE THOSE GUYS

Here is yet another entry for Illustration Friday.  While cleaning out my garage I found all my oil paints I used to use when I did Plein Air painting.  And I couldn’t resist giving oil painting another try.  So I busted out some random piece of wood I found in the garage and went for it!  I had a great time doing the sky, but when it came to the details I struggled controlling the media.  I got the idea from looking up “midsummer night” on Google and this image of a long exposure someone took of a night sky came up.  You could see the movement of all the stars.  It’s a pretty rad picture!  Anyhow I love flying kites (especially at the beach during the summer) so I kinda put the two together and came up with this one.  Let me tell you guys something, flying stunt kits is the ONLY way to go…none of that single string crap.  Trust me, go out and get a stunt kite. (this blog post was brought to you by Stuntkites.com) Crits welcome.

*once again this is a crappy capture of the final..I took it with my camera phone since the piece will probably remain wet for weeks.  I couldn’t scan it.