Estranged Son

It's interesting, I wasn't thinking about September 11th at all when I started painting this, though halfway through it I realized...

Still Sketching

Hey ya'll, sorry I haven't posted too much in a while. These are some sketches I have been doing the last couple months.

A couple of boats in the harbor with houses and such in the background. I had fun doing this one. Haven't really drawn/painted outside too much like this. It was quite enjoyable.

This is my friend's living room. This started as a casual sketch and became a little more involved after a bit.

This is my back pack. Pretty exciting huh. Sometimes I just draw what I got. :) I do like the personality this sketch has though. The pack seems to have this slackin' way about it.

Lastly, I have been experimenting with some watercolor pencils recently. I've never really used them before. They're cool. I only got two diff. colors, so hence the limited palette on this one. I'm diggin' the fabric folds and such. I'll hopefully be posting more of these later. Thanks for lookin'

Some Sketches...

Tree and Stream with fish

A Dying Hand? Perhaps...
Or a large, dried up seed pod that I broke up
into shattered pieces...

All to Thee my blessed Savior

Classic

A fire is starting...

Tree of Life

I got inspired thinking about the light and shadows of a tree, and it's formation. Perhaps the tree of life shed it's leaves in the Fall... who knows. Very quick sketch, not necessarily to define a tree but more to see the contrast between the dark and light areas. It kinda has a figure or figures-like form to it.

Heart

This was a picture I saw while praying for a guy I heard about that went through a terrible, horrific loss.

Green Blob

I've been experimenting with Adobe Illustrator a little bit. I really like the cleanness of the lines and colors. So, this is a... uh... green blob. Hanging out by somebodies house. Watchin' people walk by.

Beautiful Sunset

My interpretation of the beautiful sunset I saw tonight. Of course, this does not do it any justice, but I liked the comp. Done on toned paper with black micron pen and white charcoal then painted over and touched-up with photoshop.

True Happiness

Using Corel painter essentials again. I stole the boy's image from a World Vision advertisement.

The Ultimate Fight!

Using Corel Painter essentials.

Happy Valentine's Day

Dusk

The beautiful sunset we had tonight inspired me to paint this. I've never really painted a good or satisfying sunset or really landscape scene at all before. I like this one.

Nature

This is a little part of a large flowering plant near where I have lunch. I don't know what it's called but it provides some nice shade from the sun. This part was sticking out above the rest. I think the random-ness of the leaves on this thing really attracted me. I think that's what makes it so attractive to me now, as a drawing.This one I call Fallen. It's a fallen leaf. I think the surrounding grass came our rather dynamic for such a stagnant topic. Maybe there's still some life in the fallen leaf after all. Both of these were done on toned paper with micron pen and white charcoal.

Miniature Pumpkin

I've been seeing all the pumpkins out there that people are painting because of the holidays. I don't have one to create a still life, but figured I would just draw one randomly. So, this is how it came out. I liked it, so I'm showing all ya'll. Drawn in Corel painter with a mouse using the artist oils brush.

Figure studies

These are some figure studies I did for a class. These first 2 are done with searching line. Using line to "sculpt" out the volume of the figure. I liked using this technique because it gives lots of volume and definition to the figure. 3D'ish. These are black conte on craft paper.These 2 are done with generic charcoal pencil on newsprint. It's quite easy for me to sketch the figure this way since this was the first media I used drawing the figure. This model was great at giving us lots of fluid movement in his poses.This last one is done on newsprint with the side of a larger piece of charcoal. It's cool drawing this way cause you can put a lot down in a very small amount of time. This guy was a great model.

Pillows & Fabric

These are a couple of pillows sitting on bed with the sheet underneath. The crinkly-ness is kinda difficult to pull off. It's cool experimenting with the light and shadows of fabric though.

Landscape and Trees

This is a little area where I have lunch. It's usually pretty quiet and peaceful, and it's especially nice to draw when the days have been so beautiful out. All of these sketches are done with pen and white charcoal on toned paper.
A sketch of some parts of a large tree trunk.
A tree's arms and some of it's skin commonly referred to as branches and leaves. I think it almost looks spider-ish.

Hey Ya'll. Sorry, it's been so long

This is a painting I just started on. This is in the stage of round 2 of probably 4 rounds. I think I'm through with the under-painting and am trying to deepen more darks and fit the right colors. I'm still not too used to soft pastels, especially on Strathmore paper. It's very textured which makes using the pastels kinda difficult, if you don't blend, you hardly get any color, just the white of the paper. But, it's good practice for me. I got lots of the cools down, now I'll be working on the warm highlights. I will hopefully put up more soon.

Trip to Utah

This is a little creek that our cabin was next to with snow all around. Done with Micron pen and white charcoal.

5 minute plein air

This is a 5" x 5" painting of my backyard in oil on a canvas panel.