The Susquehanna Orchid Society’s 2015 Fall Show and Sale

©2015 Daryl Funck

"Orchid and Monkey Skull" watercolor on paper 17"x11"

          If you're going to be out and about downtown Lancaster on October 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, make sure you stop by The Ware Center for the Susquehanna Orchid Society's 2015 Fall Show and Sale "The Art of Orchids."  Orchids will be on display and for sale, and there will be orchid themed artworks on display, a juried show sponsored by the Orchid Society in collaboration with the Mount Gretna School of Art and Lancaster Galleries.  All artworks, including my watercolor pictured above, will be for sale.

Friday, October 2: noon to 8 pm Exhibits open to the public, Vendor Sales open
Saturday, October 3: 9-6 Exhibits open to the public, Vendor Sales open
Sunday, October 4: noon to-4 Exhibits open to the public, Vendor Sales open 

The artwork will stay on display through October 30th.

additional links:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1411741785792279/

http://lancasterartwalk.org/

http://www.mairintajcaya.blogspot.com/2015/09/orchid-themed-art-show-susquehanna-orchid-society.html

Coming Soon...

Detail of a painting in progress.

Underpainting detail, western street shootout ©2015 Daryl Funck

Sundance Mountain

Daryl Funck - Sundance Mountain, Wyoming 2014 watercolor/gouache

Rewind... landscape, June/July 2013

Daryl Funck - Two Trees In Light, June/July 2013 oil on masonite 12"x7"

Daryl Funck - Two Trees In Light sketch, June 2013 charcoal

Painted from direct observation plus in-studio tweaks.

Rewind... Two Landscapes From 2011

Two summer 2011 paintings. These were both done mostly from photo reference.

Daryl Edward Funck - Walnut Tree, wedding gift for Mr. and Mrs. Gibble 2011 oil on board 10x8"

Daryl Edward Funck - View of the Heagy Silos From the Funck Farm 2011 oil on board 18x10"

Cursed Treasure

New illustration portfolio piece

Daryl Edward Funck - Cursed Treasure 2012 oil on illustration board 18.75x15"

ho, ho, ho... green giant

Latest illustration. Portfolio piece for the King Arthur tale of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".  Finally, an illustration where I actually like how it turned out.  Look out world. 
Daryl Funck "Sir Gawain's Nightmare"2012 Oil on board, 30"x24".

PCAD Senior Thesis Paintings, April 2011

Sorry I haven't been on here in a while... ok, not really sorry. here is some old stuff I never posted.

Four illustrations for The Lost World 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

All paintings are oil on canvas, 

the vertical ones are  27"x18" and the horizontal one is 27"x40"

I have mixed feelings with the way they turned out, but considering the time I had to complete them and all the other work I was doing at the time, they turned out well.

Redneck Easel

What do you do if you're painting outside and you don't have a seat, taboret, or easel?  You get some ladders.

Pig Maquette

Here is one of the shots of the pig maquette I used for the three pigs painting. Natural light is almost always the best for lighting an outdoor scene. Note the blue reflection of the sky in the upwards facing planes in shadow as well as the warm reflections of the ground in the downward planes.

children's theatre brochure

Here's how the pigs appear on the promotional brochure.  If I get a hold of the playbill cover i will post that in the future.

http://www.thebroadwaytheatre.org/index.php

The Dangers of Plein Air Painting

This tree branch almost crushed me this summer while I was painting some other trees.  The locust tree I was under may have been jealous.

Three Little Pigs

Soon to be published illustration of the three little pigs for The Broadway Theatre of Pitman, NJ.  It will appear as a playbill cover for the 2011 children's theatre production of ... you guessed it... The Three Little Pigs.

oil on masonite   13.75x11 inches

What is a blog?

I was told that blog is a blend of the words web and log.  I prefer webl.  Welcome to my webl.

For my first post I present this en grisaille oil painting by Howard Pyle.  Tonal illustrations of this era were a necessity for printing purposes, and as a result many illustrators of the time were masters of tone.  With the transition to color printing, these same artists were able to apply this knowledge in creating tonally sound color illustrations.