Work In Progress: Raine, Update 6 During the past week I’ve brought this portrait much closer to completion. Much of the face is finished, save for small adjustments. I also finished most of the hair, again, save for adjustments. Some of the blouse has been blocked in roughly and color has been added to the […]

Work In Progress: Raine, Update 5 Over the past week I’ve continued to refine the facial features, building up color layers. I am not pushing very hard on the pastels. Very little pressure on the pencils. Laying in the color by very gently rubbing on the color, rather than rubbing in the color. This way […]

Work In Progress: Raine, Update 4 The next step in the process is the transfer to the final paper. Rather than blacken the back of the drawing I elected to blacken one side of a separate sheet of tracing paper and use it to do the transfer. There are instances where the line work on […]

Many thanks and much appreciation to the judges of A Singular Art Community for voting Osprey: Lovers Key, Florida, Number 1 in their Competition “Nature 6”. Congratulations, also to the 1st Runner up Ryan OSullivan and Honorable mentions Sam Woodson, Lynne Wright, Vitalii, Boruch Lev, Alejandro del Valle, Fraser Mackay, Kelly Laura, Alyssa, Danielle Trudeau, and […]

Work In Progress: Raine, Update 3   Using the guidelines as I developed them in the last Update, I was able to rough in the facial features. At first I didn’t try for detail, just to get in the general shapes within the guides that I drew in. I was careful, though, to stay within […]

Work In Progress: Raine, Update 2 I’m a little late on this installment. Had a number of other responsibilities to take care of, and they took priority this past week. One of these responsibilities had to do with art, but from a construction point of view. I’m in the process of making changes to a […]

Work in Progress: Raine, Update 1             As I mentioned at the end of the last Update, I’m inclined to do another portrait. I bought a few varieties of pastel paper over the past few months, with the intent to see how I like them for pastel portrait work. The brands I purchased were Canson […]

Work in Progress: Peaches, Update 12 I think this painting is completed. Added the reflection at the bottom. All the same pastel colors used for the other area of the floor were used here except for the addition of CO 105. I purposely left the background area with less detail than the subject because it […]

Work in Progress: Peaches, Update 11             In this Update I’ve done more work on the entertainment center, the French doors in the background and the couch, bringing closer to completion. At the end of the last update I mentioned that the background colors are predominantly browns and how that allowed for the lighter colors […]

There is an ArtWalk in Ocala tonight. You may already know that there is one the first friday of the month. Spending the day getting everything ready for the show. I also just finished up an Introductory Colored Pencil class for Master the Possibilities at On Top of the World Communities yesterday. Had two classes […]