Friday, March 18, 2011

My blog has moved!!

Thanks for checking my blog! Unfortunately, I no longer update this blog. I have moved to a Wordpress blog integrated into my new Portfolio website. Please update your bookmarks and follow my only blog here:

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Thanks,
Jay Montgomery

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Busy Bumblebee - Process


Gotta new documented process of my traditional paintings. It was a quick demo I did this Fall quarter at SCAD. The students have to do some sort of "manimal" (part human part animal) This is what you get when Yaritza Burgos (AKA "Bumblebee Man" from the Simpsons) gets a "Bee Movie" body and finds a job.

Prismacolor Pencil transfer to Strathmore Illustration Board. 10" x 7.5" image area. Taped off with Blue Safe Release tape.


Acrylic and Ink base colors. Watercolor was used for the clouds that I don't have a picture for.

Oil wash made with Dioxane Purple and Permanent Green Light thinned with Gamsol.

Dried oil wash removed with kneaded eraser revealing highlights and unifying shadows.

Prismacolor pencil details. and color shifts in certain areas.


Final flatbed scan color corrected with touched off with digital signature.

Details reveal lots of great texture and variations in colors.

Whole process took about 8 hours, but not all at once.



Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Before yours and her very eyes

Made this little video of one of my many painting methods. Painting was created with acrylic, watercolors, an oil wash, Prismacolor pencils, and gesso in about that order.

Video was created with iPhoto 11' slideshow. Limiting options but works OK. Real easy once you do it once right. This was my first time doing the slideshow.

Big Eyes Surprise

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Shannon Elizabeth

One of my favorite sexy actresses. Totally created and drawn by hand in Corel Painter 11 using the sponge tool in the background and a few pastels sticks for her face. Click to to see details.


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Decathlon Poster Process

New work!

A 16" x 20" poster I did as part of a demo for my Adobe Illustrator class a Portfolio Center. I just finished it today. I thought it turn out pretty good. Whada you think?


This part was done in Adobe Illustrator CS4.


I then copied certain grouped areas from Illustrator into a Photoshop document and created a series of Smart Object layers. Then I added various textures in the layers masks of the Smart Object layers.

Decathlon poster


The result is a the marriage of Illustrator and Photoshop. The best of both worlds.
I love texture!!


Decathlon poster detail