My website, with some earlier work

http://kjelds.com/Portfolio/

Destino

This is inspired on Dali's and Walt Disney's duo in making the animation Destino and of Disney's french studio in finishing it, its truly a masterpiece. I really like all that was put into it and how 2D still charms over the CG of today. I kept wondering how would it be to make it in 3D, since it came out in 2003.

See this piece here

Here is a work in progress of it.

Here is a sneak pick of my work in progress of it.

Destino test renders

Done before rigging and 2d material pass

Destino test render

Test render done before puppeting

Water Colors

I always liked using water colors but I never got into it, but since my friend Shao Wei a great artist at work introduced me to her watercolors and the work of the great masters, such as Cotman, Girtin, Turner, Homer, Sargent's work here showing his masterpiece of Venice and many others. I got myself emerged in it as of lately.

Cotman's Arches

My study of Cotman's Arches

Cotman's great Iconic piece

My Colormix study

Work in progress

A quick sketch before painting

Winslow Watercolor Study

My watercolor study, ended up doing this twice as I didn't like how the first turned out.

Winslow Homer's greatly captures Seaman rowing home.

My watercolor study in progress

Venice, Italy Watercolor Sketch

Had an opportunity to go to Venice, is truly an unique place. I've heard bad things about it, but I feel like Venice is for the ones who can let time pass by, getting lost on its maze, talk to your friend, like Rio is a very turisty place, but if you can step in and out of the turist places and get lost you can see the real place.

Here is the original watercolor and original colors, like Sargent and many others were mesmerized by the colors of this city, the water the earthtones of the houses, the atmosphere here is different.

Here is a sketch with a little too much detail for its size to be used for water color.

Gondoleiros in Venice

Lake Beryessa by Napa, Watercolor Sketch

What a nice lake, its\ actually has warm water during summer, something rare in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Here is a photo of the location, love how peacefull it is here.

MURAL ART in UCA Berkeley!

MURAL ART @ UCA BERKELEY!

Casa de Cultura

It has being 3 months since I've started working on my spare time on the weekends for a mural, to improve and give life to BRASIL CASA de CULTURA, (Brazilian culture house, where much happens there, from concerts to music to dancing to playing music and capoeira, covering cultures from south america to the north.)

It has being a very gratifying experience and lots of hard work, due to the sheer scale and specially due to the rough texture of the wall. I had the opportunity to coordinate 4 others hard working artists to make this vision come through. I've made numerous sketches and different color palletes of the illustration to be used for this mural that I hope to post them up here soon.

A lot of people have being asking to see a picture of it. So here is a glimpse of it. But if you would like please come by @ San Pablo and University in North Berkeley from a closer look and if you stop by on Saturdays or Sundays you may catch me there finishing it.

-Kjeld Pedersen   / Requeijao ( a type of soft cheese, my capoeira name)

Sunnier day! About 50 buckets of mixed paint...

 Early work, adding a figure playing the berimbau

Some early tests with projection in my garage, and card board masks but the area was too big for it. So we went with a grid.

Early sketch that didn't get used, the beginning of a game.

Cleaning it up. Splitting the planes and figures.

Used Sketch for Mestre Accordeon done at a coffee shop, the original is 10X larger!

More to come!

Life Drawing at the Old Safe House Atelier

I started last month attending Carl's Dobsky Life drawing classes and boy it has knocked me out, I assumed I knew how to draw, art school can teach you many things but the time is limited, you don't come out learning like the renaissance painters did, to be fair they took a life time in pursuit of better work. I was amazed how much more there is to learn and at Carl's studio it really shows that. With real empashis on a solid foundation, like how has being traditionally done for centuries. This is forcing me to see things in a new light.

Life Drawing at the Old Safe House Atelier - Part 3

Life Drawing at the Old Safe House Atelier - Part 3

It has being a while, but work hasn't stopped, still sorting them out to scan them finished, here is a glimpse of the 13 of them! Lucky number, hopefully soon a Gallery and some real paint in the future!

Glimpse of the pieces being worked on.

2012

Pencil on paper

24X10

Adding the chair

2012

Pencil on paper

10X20

Block in

This chair!

To be added, beautiful piece of furniture!

2012

Pencil on paper

10X20

Shots of work In progress

Block in

I just finished this one, but this photo is the WIP

2012

Pencil on paper

10X20

Shots of work In progress

Block in

Shots of work In progress

Of current one

Block in

Hey and this is me working on it!

Very exciting on how they've being turning out, no longer struggling so much with all the pieces of the puzzle, its like an orquestra, everybody are playing along I can focus on composition and finer details now, speed has increased too :-)

Ohhh and I'm proud to say that on this rainy day I taught Luana to draw this one, with what I've learned so far, posing while I drew. This is her first one, can you believe that? I taught her in less than 5 hours! Not bad!