I want to thank all who attended my Introductory Colored Pencil and Intermediate Colored Pencil Classes this month. All were enthusiastic, asked many good questions and, I hope, learned a lot from the sessions. In the Introductory Class, from what I observed, all made great progress in handling the pencils through the technical exercises and on […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight, Update 4 The sky is complete (for now) and I’ve started on the distant trees. I finished up the layer of cloud blue, moving from right to left. After that I went back over the area of the sky where there is a transition to a lighter value. The transition […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight Update 3             I’m going to do this painting entirely in colored pencil. The size will be 22” by 13”, and I’ll be using Stonehenge paper. The first step was to transfer the pencil drawing to the paper. I then started on the sky first.             Although it looks simple, […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight Update 2             For the color sketch I used a blurred version of the final composition I put together on Photoshop Elements. The blurred version was posted here last week as the color sketch. I’m going to do this painting in colored pencil, so my next step is to figure […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight, Update 1             Most of my nature paintings are of scenes outside my home state of Florida, either in the Appalachians or other far off, but equally appealing locales. However, there are some very beautiful natural areas here in Florida and I decided it was time to do a painting […]

Work In Progress: Louisiana Iris, Update 3             After completing the leftmost standard (petal), I completed the smaller petal in front of it. It is very light in color and required much less work. As with the previous petal, I started with lavender and defined the contours, creases and shadows, applying a bit more pressure […]