Figure drawings in charcoal

Merry Christmas

Just finished putting the gifts under the tree and drinking the milk and cookies left for Santa : )  Sorry Santa.

 I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. 

Figure drawings in ink

Painting in progress

Design for next painting

You can click on the above image to get a better viewing of it.  It is the drawing for the next painting and is from the stained glass design below that was from an ink drawing before  that. 

I will be showing the progression of the painting.

Starting a new painting-painful today

I woke up at 2 am this morning and could not get back to sleep so I got up at 2:45 to start on a new painting.  I have been looking at this design I drew on canvas ( I will post the picture next time) for a week and have been unsure as to what to do with it.  This morning I just put a color on the palette and started on a section.  It was  painful as I was uncertain what was going to come out, not quite sure what to do.  By the end of that section, which took an hour and forty five minutes, I just gave in and allowed what needed to come out flow on the canvas.

Tattoo design

A coworker wanted a tattoo design of a few symbolic things for her and this is the basic design.  First time doing a design for a tattoo.

Stained glass design for our entry way

 This is for the transom above the front door and the design below is the sidelight.  The triangles are beveled and will have color pieces beveled and bonded on the center portion.  The triangles below the beveled ones will be a color to be determined.  The "background" glass will be reeded glass. Click on the image to get a larger view.

Figure studies in charcoal

Figure drawings in pencil

Thank you

In the spirit of Thanksgiving I want to say thank you to my followers and to those who have browsed my blog from time to time. I know I do not say too much but I hope the images I have shown have spoken to you.

International Contemporary Artists Vol III

I just received my copies of International Contemporary Artists Vol III and I am on page 231.  Very excited!

Completed painting

After a couple of attempts at different colored backgrounds this one works well  to bring out the greens in the leaves. 

Figure drawings in pencil

Painting in progress

I don't like the background blue.  Detracts too much from the leaves.  This picture actually looks better than the actual painting in which the blue and green blend too much and is hard to see the contrast.   I will think about the background some more.

Figure studies

Figure drawings in ink

Figure drawings in charcoal

Figure drawings in pencil

Painting in progress

Figure drawings in charcoal

Painting in progress

This was inspired from a ink sketch I did of some leaves:

Sketches-studies

These were quick studies of people sitting at an airport waiting for boarding.

Sketches-studies

I was at a kids baseball game and sketched these.  It was fun to watch.

Sketches-studies, composition

I was figuring out a good composition of the movement and flow of some plants.

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

Sketches-studies

These are of my son drawing in a coloring book on the lawn. 

Sketches-studies

The next few posts will show quick studies that I have done from time to time. 

Drawings

These were quick studies.
                          Hand studies