Saturday, March 28, 2020

Midnight Painting

                                Artwork by Julie Akeman....titled  Desolation

                                    Artwork by Julie Akeman  titled Frustration

I think the enforced isolation is getting to me.  I'm not the most social of creatures but not being able to work my day job..at a library..because of the damn virus..well..it sucks..but I am plugging into abstract..it seems to be the only thing I can tap into right now.  I wanted to do abstraction for awhile and I have been wondering what would make a good abstraction..well dealing with my current emotions it's coming out in it's own story.


Tuesday, March 17, 2020

New Abstract Painting Video


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With the virus shutting the schools down in my area I have only night time to work on my piece..need some diversion...this video shows me working on an abstract..I put on the Never Ending Story soundtrack to help fuel my inspiration..enjoy.


Finished piece...I call it Skyburst

Friday, March 6, 2020

Space Dragon

Art by Julie Akeman

My finished Space Dragon..might make some adjustments later..don't know..after I've done a load of work I let it set for a while to dry..the beauty of oil paints is that you can work quickly and you can leave it alone and change it up later..I did love splattering the paint..have to wait for it to dry to see how doing it that way will work once it dries.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Painting Space For a Dragon


Hello friendly followers..Akemanartist is at it again..I am working on more creative dragon paintings on small canvases..if you would like to buy one just keep following me, oils take a bit to dry through I am using water soluble oils which doesn't take as long but still need a month to be sure.  I will be revamping my Etsy shop and will get things in place..keep following.

In this video I just did a spacelike background and yes it will have a dragon but it's going to be an outline of one and I will try to get a video of that process too.

I only used three colors of Lukas Berlin watercolor paints
Titanium white
Ultramarine (one of my favorites)
and Cobalt Violet

I prefer to paint fast and work alla prima for the most part..sometimes I wait for the backgrounds to dry before I add my dragon..it depends on how I want to do it..working wet in wet I have to make sure I want to alter what I have going on..in another background I decided to let it dry before I add the dragon..I try both ways of doing this and really I like both ways..it all depends on how I want to mix the paint on canvas.

Due to some issues you have to click the video link, it goes to my Facebook page.


And this is another background for another dragon to be painting..stay tuned.

Bleed The Knife

                                       Bleed The Knife by Julie Akeman   I have been thinking of this piece all day..and finally execute...