Behind the Chutes

Tom Hill is one of my favorite watercolor artist, I like his style and technique. I'm following a demo from his book "Color for the watercolor painter" my colors or a little different but that's ok.

Two Brothers

This was a commissioned pastel portrait I did in 1988 when I lived in Baton Rouge, LA.  The challenge was composing it from two separate photographs of the brothers and it was at a time when I was doing more commissioned work.  I took this picture before the background was completed.  It was always satisfying to capture the personalities of the subjects in my portraits.

Jillian

This was my first Pastel Portrait done back in '84 of my youngest daughter Jillian. I had a book by Dennis Frost, Capturing Personality in Pastel, which was both inspirational and informative. His instructions enabled me to do the painting and I would highly recommend the book, especially to aspiring pastel portrait artists.

C.P. Portrait

My New Year goal for 2009 is to finish this colored pencil portrait. Back in 2003 I attended a colored pencil workshop in Fredericksburg Texas taught by Ann Kullburg, a self taught artist whom I had the pleasure of meeting. 

Hal's Watercolor Class

I hope that sharing these stages of the painting from the ugly stage to the final stage will inspire someone else to enjoy art. 

Brianna Peekaboo

This was my first attempt at rendering a Portrait using Copic markers. Not so easy, but I learned some things that worked and some things that did not work as well. I look forward to using what I learned on the next project.

Brianna envelope

OK...this did not turn out quite like I had hoped. I'm happy with the overall look but the paper is so important I may have to make my own envelopes. I used a red Tombow brush and when I applied white on top it diluted the red-not good! The idea for the font came from a site called Graffiti Creator. They have a lot of cool photos of Graffiti, some of these guys have taken Graffiti to an Art form!