micycle

Hi everybody

2009-02-27T06:46:00.000-08:00

YO.

2008-05-24T14:23:00.000-07:00

www.michaelrelth.com

WE ARE BORN DOT TEE VEE

2007-12-21T02:19:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone.
I haven't been posting ANYTHING for the looooonnngest time.
But check out my website.

http://www.weareborn.tv/michael/

and, for the even more amazing born action team!

http://www.weareborn.tv

ENJOY!

<3 Michael

ZOOM

2007-01-08T01:28:00.000-08:00

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I was all geared up.
I had on my brand new bicycle pants, clip in shoe things, and 90 pounds per square inch in each tire. The wind was strong outside. There had been heavy winds for several days prior, so the streets were strewn with palm frawns and misc. debris. ALL DOWN HILL, I made my way to the Rose Bowl, and on my final descent in to the valley, bump bump bump, BUMP BUMP BUMP... FLAT tire. sigh. i may as well enjoy the sunshine. I layed down for a moment. Then, I faced the hill and started walking with ol' reliable bike on my shoulder.

i was coffeeshop sketching

2006-11-11T16:50:00.000-08:00

and i wasn't having a good time painting the interior of starbucks.
so i painted someone gnashing his pearly whites,
i felt better.

bad actor

2006-09-29T23:40:00.000-07:00

i'm reading this script aloud to try to get into the characters.
(for storyboarding class)
gesticulating and "acting"
realizing that i'm a terrible actor.
haha.
fun never the less.
PEACE

a tree?

2006-09-05T00:23:00.000-07:00

hours of copying pasting, stretching, scribbling, layering, layering (layering) photos and old paintings, i finally decided to make...a TREE! wow! how boring. maybe i'll copy this thing over itself on a multiply layer and flip it horizontally and turn it into a veggie burger.

2006-09-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

i've been lazy today.

power and water

2006-09-01T01:15:00.000-07:00

POWERRRR!

outside

2006-09-01T00:06:00.000-07:00

after i went painting with alex and dave, i head up to the haunted woods.
as soon as i stepped out of my car, i saw this.
then the sun set, it was beautiful.

blinded by the light

2006-08-29T20:21:00.000-07:00

I stared into the sun for a while with my hand positioned in front of it, so that i could look at what it was doing to the hill without blinding myself. i didn't have my paints, but i took notes, and did a painting based off of those notes
(i think this ruined my eyesight)

i am a slow speed painter

2006-08-29T19:27:00.000-07:00

sunset junction

2006-08-28T22:52:00.000-07:00

went painting with erin at sunset junction. had alot of fun.

First painting for story

2006-08-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

this totally didn't come out how i wanted it to. i have a feeling this is going to be a reoccuring theme with this project.
BUT...
if one wants to make an omelet...

GOSH

2006-08-27T04:55:00.000-07:00

I have the best idea for a story to write/illustrate/design EVER! I am so damned stoked about it, because it combines all the ideas that i've been wanting to combine for some time. This one will work out.

I draw heads

2006-08-26T12:57:00.000-07:00

these are a couple options for the oil painting i am working on, i really like the middle one the best. It's raskolinikov right after he's blacked out for a few days, and he has visitors, that he doesn't want there. anyways, i need to start working on some environments. like whoa.

just watched pulp fiction

2006-08-26T02:16:00.000-07:00

Alright, just watched pulp fiction, I was noticing interesting highlight light shapes and texture on some heads. I Felt like doing a quick painting before bed... photoshop style. Did this one with value and then added a color layer. I am REALLY bad at using color layer in photoshop( help). Every time I attempt this, it turns out obviously looking like a color layer over value. Gradating the color away on a mask looks really cool... I'll have to remember that.

I haven't touched photoshop or painter for a while because i've been wanting to do some large work with traditional media. I've done a llllitttle bit, But mostly this idea of "keeping it real" has just caused me to produce less. computer=faster. Which doesn't mean I won't keep trying
at it.

I recently moved all of my studio stuff out of the breadbox that I call my room. I moved my stuff up... and over we go through the wave and undertoe/I will float until I learn how to swim
... into the attic. LOTS more leg room. lots less clutter.

B+W

2006-07-31T23:43:00.000-07:00

Sat in on a composition and painting class and did this painting. i think it took 2-3 hours, and i challeneged myself to use only flat shapes and no rendering. i think alot of the shapes are not needed... i get bored and start adding more superfluous shapes. i think a 5 hour sesh spent painting just the biggest shapes would be time well spent.

i don't know

2006-07-31T23:38:00.000-07:00

started playing with shapes and layering and relayering until i saw a carish shape. not finished yet.
hopefully this one will include meandering zombies

hi

2006-07-31T23:36:00.000-07:00

this is me attempting to create a blog.