Author Archives: Ryan McJunkin

Awesome Mural in Downtown Oakland

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Ryan McJunkin

Mural on 26th street in Oakland

David Polka and thomas haag have been working on this for the last several days laying a foundation down for a collaborative mural at Classic Cars West in Oakland. It’s a minotaur with his guts spilling out and eventually turning into snakes at the other end of the mural. Ernest got back from a big mural job in New Mexico and jumped in with a giant 4 eyed healer dude. They had a launch party for the Oakland Art Murmur and some locals added to the design. Right on the other side of the wall at Uptown Body and Fender we had our continuing exhibit ‘Garage Sale’ up. This is the second first Friday we have had art up at Uptown, and they get some serious traffic in that place. It’s been great to see so many people coming out and supporting the arts in Oakland.

: Mural on 26th street in Oakland

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My New Studio

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Ryan McJunkin

I’ve been sharing a space with my wood shop, but that ends tomorrow with a wall going up. It’s only going up 10 ft so there will be plenty of natural light reaching the wood shop. I was thinking of putting up clear plastic for the dust, but I got some new dust collection and so far, there really hasn’t been much dust floating around. The wall will be nice to hang art on at least.

Check out the progress on Faultline on the Faultline website and Facebook

My New Studio

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Life Drawing

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Ryan McJunkin

Here is a before and after shot of a life drawing done from a model. I hardly ever finish a whole drawing with the model sitting in front of me. I like to have some really dark areas, and those take up a lot of time that could be better spent on other areas of the drawing. I think it’s good practice to figure out tones intellectually from time time to time, instead of only observationally.

Unfinished drawing done from a model

Life drawing touched up later

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Top 10 Life Drawing Tips

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Ryan McJunkin

I’ve moved some content from my other site, brokenarted.com to this one. A few articles are on this site now, including ‘Top 10 Figure Drawing Tips‘ and ‘Using milk as a Drawing Fixative.’ The links are under the ‘Art Tutorials’ section on the sidebar.

Top 10 Life Drawing Tips

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Work From ‘Garage Sale’ at Uptown Body and Fender

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Ryan McJunkin

The show at Uptown Body and Fender last Friday was a big success. Uptown is a swanky auto shop in a big beautiful building. They move out the cars for events and the space is really fantastic. Our hostess was marvelous and the space was packed. The other artists in the show really did a lot of footwork and handed out 4000 beautifully designed cards. I have a few more pictures of Erik and Linda’s work to add. Thanks to everyone who made it out!