sketches continued.....

Left: My hand from observation-Graphite/ Right: My partner sleeping from observation, pen and ink
Left: Macy Sleeping and Awake gestures, pen and ink, Right: "Disadvantage" After Illustrator Joseph Clement Coll from Illustration 1860-2000, pen and ink.
Left: My partner sleeping, caran d'ache watercolor crayons, Right: Blue Self-Portrait, pen and ink, caran d'ache watercolor crayons, prismacolor markers.

Katrina Boat Overturned from my photo, pen and ink.
Destruction Katrina as seen from car window, pen and ink, from my photo.

sketches continued.....

Colored Pencil-Wetcanvas.com
Left: Colored Pencil: Illustrators Reference-Faces/Right: Graphite wetcanvas.com
Left: Pen and Ink wetcanvas.com/Right: Graphite wetcanvas.com
Rose from my photo-Dallas Arboretum, pen and ink.
Waves, from a photo I found, source unknown, pen and ink.

More sketches

The first and second images are pen and ink from wetcanvas.com. The third image: Left-pen and ink from wetcanvas.com, Right-Colored Pencil from Illustrators Reference Book for Faces. Fourth image: Left and Right-Colored Pencil from Illustrators Reference Book for Faces. Fifth image: Colored Pencil from wetcanvas.com.

More sketches

The first image: Left-Pen and ink and Payne's Gray acrylic from wetcanvas.com. Right-Stippled Pen and Ink and line from North American Trees. Second:Left- Passengers on a Greyhound from observation. Right-Mississippi River-Algier's Ferry Side-New Orleans, from observation. Third: Top-Pen and ink and Payne's Gray acrylic from wetcanvas.com, Bottom- Watercolor from wetcanvas.com. Fourth: Left-Self-Portrait, Pen and ink and prismacolor markers. Right-Stippled Pen and ink of a toad from my photo-Dallas Arboretum. Fifth: Left-Crosshatched Pen and Ink from wetcanvas.com. Right-Pen and ink and Payne's Gray acrylic from wetcanvas.com.

New Sketches from Old Sketchbook

The next several sketches are from a 3.5 x 5" Moleskine sketchbook from last year. From May 30, 2006 to July 20, 2006. Most of them are based off photos from wetcanvas.com, some are from the illustrators reference guide to faces, others are from a Reader's Digest book about North American Trees, and others are from direct observation. There is some slight camera distortion of some of the pen and ink sketches because I am still learning my new camera. I will try to point out the medium, source, and distortion, if any, in the sketches that I post. I'm not sure of the source of the first pen and ink image. The second two images-the left pen and ink is from observation from my apartment window. The right is from North American Trees. The third image is also from North American Trees and is pen and ink and payne's gray acrylic. The fourth image is from wetcanvas.com and is pen and ink and payne's gray acrylic. The fifth image is my cat Macy sleeping and is from observation.

I know I've been promising more frequent updates......here are some.

I know, I know, I've been promising more frequent updates. It's not that I haven't been doing any artwork, truthfully, it's that I've been waiting until I could get a better camera. I didn't want to continue to put poor quality photos of my art on my blog. It doesn't do my own work justice, and it doesn't please those who view my blog. Now, I have a good camera......finally! So, I will be posting frequent updates. All of the photos except the piece of the eagle and Native American Chief Wolf Robe, are taken with the old camera. I wish I had time to re-photograph everything on here, but I don't. The eagle and Chief Wolf Robe is 9x12 inches on Bristol Smooth. 95% stippled with a 3x0 Rapidograph pen. The small paintings are acrylic on Bristol Smooth, no gessoed ground, no airbrush. Golden heavy body and Grumbacher Academy acrylics were used. They range in size from 4x6 inches to some odd size, I'm not sure of. Oh, I wanted to mention that the reference for the eagle came from wetcanvas.com and for the native american this great site www.firstpeople.us. The glass candle holder is from direct observation, and the apple is from wetcanvas.com.

More Airbrush Work-Fire and Trees

This is my first attempt at doing fire. I worked from a photo I took of fire. The photo wasn't that great because the flames were too white in the photos, and I had to invent some of the colors and values. I'm going to try again with a better reference. The forest scene is based off a Wetcanvas.com photo.

More Airbrush-More Animals

These are all 12x16 inches on Canson watercolor paper, cold press. Paasche V airbrush used along with transparent Golden Airbrush colors and FW acrylic inks. Combination of airbrush and paintbrush used for details. All images based off photos from the Wetcanvas.com reference image library.

Sketch Dump#3-Sketches from the old sketchbook continued...

These sketches are also based off photos from the wetcanvas.com reference image library. Except for the last image on the right, which is from observation. They are pen and wash and acrylic ink.

Sketch Dump#3-Sketches from the old sketchbook.

These are sketches from the sketchbook that I finished about a month or so ago. I will be posting sketches from the new sketchbook soon. This is the first of several sketch dump posts. The watercolors are done from observation from a bus window on a trip to Florida. The ballpoint pen drawings are based off wetcanvas.com reference image photos.

More Airbrush-The Finished Pieces

These are the finished pieces. They are all a combination of airbrush and paintbrush. I airbrushed the entire image first, and then used a paintbrush to put in the details that would bring the image into sharper focus. All reference images courtesy of the wetcanvas.com image library. The image size is 16x20 inches. Also, on the previous post the image sizes are 9x12 inches.

New Work-Taking up the airbrush!-the images.

For some reason the images didn't show up, so here they are.

New Work-Taking up the airbrush!

Hi everyone: I'm sorry that I haven't updated this blog in a few months, life has just gotten in the way. However, I have made time to still do my artwork, and I have plenty to post. As you all may know, my first love is pen and ink, but recently I have become a bit burned out with it. Or rather with all of that stippling. I'm not going to stop doing pen and ink or stippling entirely, but I really need to start producing more work quicker, so I have taken up another medium-the airbrush. I only started four days ago with the airbrush, but I think I have become quite good with it in this short amount of time, though I still have a long way to go. I use a combination of airbrush and paintbrush for the details. I know that there are people out there who do photorealistic work with an airbrush and get sharp details with it, but I'm not sure how they do it with a tool that seems to be made for doing soft-focus work and backgrounds. At any rate, I've never been a photorealist, and it's no sin to combine tools for the effect that one wants. And I think I've arrived at a unique style. So enough, with the introduction, I will start off my showing some of my first airbrushed efforts and then my later finished pieces. All images except for the self-portrait are from the wetcanvas image library. The first eagle, and the smoker, and the clouds are airbrushed without the use of a paintbrush for details. The blue-violet eagle and the self-portrait show the use of a paintbrush to bring the image into sharper focus.