I’m trying to really push this pencil drawing and develop the values. Here’s another sneak peek detail shot. Birds!
Mar252015
Work in Progress – Detail Shot of Bear Cliffs
Jan282015
Autumn Green Man Process
Here’s a bit on the process for the Autumn Green Man. After discussing the project via email, I did up a bunch thumbnails. The client got to see these two which I thought solved the challenge in a way closest to what we discussed. Then I did a tighter...
Jan142015
Calendar Giveaway
Vote for your favorite image from Llewellyn’s 2015 Astrological Calendar and send me your name for a chance to win a copy of the calendar. I created the images for Llewellyn’s 2015 Astrological Calendar. It’s now all out in the wild and it’s time to celebrate. How it works...
Nov262014
Work in Progress – Greenman
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a little sneak peek at what’s on my drawing board.
Aug62014
Hands Study on Newsprint
We just finished up the portrait class I was teaching on Tuesday nights (thanks for posing Anna!). During the 10 weeks of the class I was able to do some head and hand studies. (Side note: If you’re wondering, part-time/evening classes start again the week of September 14th.) Anna’s...
May142014
Practice vs. Perfection
Flash back to art school. I had drawn before so why couldn’t I make “this” work? “This” was whatever skill or project I was working on at the time. All I had to do was draw what I saw. It was right there in front of me, right? Easy...
Mar262014
Sketchbook Smear Relief and Some Doctor Who Fan Art
I wanted practice drawing people. What better way than to combine learning with fan art of Doctor Who? In the past when I’ve kept a sketch book the pencil would rub off on the adjacent page. This has always frustrated me. Capturing a likeness can be frustrating, why compound...
Feb272014
Portrait Study – Russian Sauce
I teach a portrait class Tuesday evenings so when I’m not helping students, I’m helping myself by working on this head study. This was a great opportunity to experiment with Yarka Russian Sauce. What fun! I love the darks I’m getting. This all started with my interest in Valentin...
Jan292014
Posthumous Portrait
As a present for my husband, I painted a posthumous portrait of his mother. Kinda tricky. I had to work from photos, and my memories and impressions of her. Step 1 Transfer the photo reference as a line drawing/tracing to the canvas and start painting. I thought this would...
Jan292014
Experiment: Camera Lucida
So a couple guys did a Kickstarter. They created a modern version of the camera lucida: the NeoLucida. I was curious so I chipped in. Backstory David Hockney, in his book “Secret Knowledge,” proposed that many of the old masters used optics as they came available. This ruffled some...