Oil on Gessoed Masonite - 15.5" x 25.5"
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HIGH FLIER (2018) by Michael Whelan, the first installment in his 2018 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
On a whim, I added the figure to a study for my recently painted Tad Williams cover for DAW.
Editor’s Note: Over the past 3 years, Michael has been documenting an ongoing gallery project made up of accidental creations and warm up paintings executed with leftover paints. We’re starting a little late this year, but you should be seeing regular L&PG gallery posts for the remainder of the year.
For more details, see the original LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery and also be sure to check out the 2017 gallery as well.
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Week 14 of Michael Whelan’s 2016 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
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RETURN TO MELNIBONE (2017) by Michael Whelan, the 10th installment in his 2017 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Both a leftover AND a palette gremlin—the purest combination that I’ve done so far. With oils left on my palette, I painted over shapes on an old illustration board. As soon as I started to lay the color on it, I was thinking of the ruins of Melnibone.
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LEMON TOP (2017) by Michael Whelan, the 9th installment in his 2017 LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
This was a sketch done with leftover cadmium yellow and raw umber. I had a scrap of canvas used for a test print. I was curious if I could coat it with grey gesso and sketch on it. I guess the answer was yes. ;-)
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EYES OF THE WHITE WOLF (2016) by Michael Whelan, Week 49 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
On impulse I grabbed a scrap of canvas that had been trimmed off one of our prints. Using leftover paint I had mixed for the Tad Williams’ cover I just completed for DAW, I painted in a portrait of Elric.
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THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CRIMSON KING (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 44 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
While applying a dark blue background color to a painting I was working on, I made the mistake of listening to the news. I found myself standing with a brush full of leftover paint and a need to respond to what I was hearing. I decided to commit to what my mind was telling me to paint, only using a more appropriate color.
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ASTRAL MUSE (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 41 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project
This piece of mat board was used as a palette while working on the cover for Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance. Half of the scrap was turquoise while the rest was reds and oranges. Random brushstrokes suggested the figure that I painted in.
I still had paints left over from the Sanderson cover session—everything except earth tones which had spoiled with mold—so I used the remaining pigments to render this little image.
SPLASHY CENTAUR (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 38 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
The photo included below was sent to me by my Facebook friend Justin David Russell during a discussion about seeing images in accidental shapes. As soon as I saw it I was taken by the image it sparked in my mind. Last week, having found some leftover Raw Umber on my palette I decided to go ahead have a whack at sketching it out in paint.
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TANGLEWOOD (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 27 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.
Even though this leftover has a Hobbit in it, it’s not related to any story. It’s just what I felt like painting two nights ago.
The oil paint was left on my palette from a session spent trying to visualize the Witchwood trees in Tad Williams’ forthcoming new novel in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. I often turn to oils when I’m playing around with shapes, as the medium allows me to push and pull the paint around until I sense something beginning to work for me.
I wasn’t entirely successful in that effort, which is why I put a little more “oomph” into the leftover than I normally would; I wanted to go to bed that night feeling a sense of accomplishment.
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