This is turning into a two-part post because I have too many photos to share and we’re all visual people here. I am freshly returned from a camping trip in upstate New York to Wilcox Memorial Park. This sprawling park boasts over 8 miles of hiking trails, bucolic campsites, a… Read More »Art and the Forest: Summer 2024
I hope everyone in the states had a lovely Memorial Day Weekend. I made myself a super-extra long weekend by taking a few additional days off during which I attended my first yoga day-retreat at Kripalu. I’ve been practicing yoga consistently for about a year-and-a-half, though of course I’d been… Read More »Plein Air on Yoga Retreat
A really simple drawing exercise, continuous line drawing, involves making a doodle or a masterpiece without lifting the pencil or pen. Drawing with only one line forces the artist to pay attention to what edges are most important to an image, and to think ahead about where they will fall.… Read More »Continuous Line Plants
Sometimes it’s really hard to decide what to make next. I am officially running out of room for my creations, a common curse amongst the maker class. But because of this lack of space, there is an implied demand that anything made should be made well, and better yet for… Read More »Inside My Sketchbook, Inside My Manic Head
Once again this year the household took a summer vacation to beautiful Round Island, a private island in the middle of Long Lake, NY, on the edge of absolute wilderness. I did not touch my phone while I was there; I even bought myself a cheap watch ahead of time… Read More »Sketches of Long Lake, New York 2019
Merry Christmas! Below is the painting that I made for my aunt’s annual Christmas card. It is a portrait of two new family dogs. I painted this piece in quite a hurry using watercolors and colored pencils. It is impossible to get a photograph of two dogs looking in the… Read More »Commissioned Christmas Card: Watercolor, Colored Pencil
Graphite illustration from the Hunch Back of Notre Dame. Quasimodo has saved Esmerelda from being hanged, and brought her to the cathedral under the law of sanctuary. The Truands then charge the cathedral in an attempt to save Esmerelda. However Quasimodo thinks that they want to hurt Esmerelda, so he… Read More »Hunchback of Notre Dame
Last figure from this latest batch of colored pencil figures that I’ve been posting. This one was done with a henna colored pencil on pearl paper with white for the highlights.
Here is another figure drawing done in burnt sienna colored pencil, with white and cream for the highlights. I also worked in some henna colored pencil where the light comes out of shadow to give the figure some life. It looked pretty lifeless with just burnt sienna.
Henna and white colored pencil on pearl paper. The henna colored pencil is a lot more pink than you might expect.
Drew from a model in class for a few days using colored pencil. We started out sketching the figure in graphite first, then we went over the drawing lightly with a dark colored pencil. The graphite was then erased and we proceeded to render the figure with both a dark… Read More »Colored pencil figure drawing
I really like how this Illustration came out. I knew that I wanted to paint sushi, but if I was going to spend fifty hours on a painting, it needed to be something really interesting and befitting of my unique sense of humor. So I just went for it. I… Read More »Fish People
Black and white pencil illustration of a scene from Jack and the Beanstalk. When Jack traded away his family’s last possession, a cow, for magic beans from a stranger, his mother, in anger, threw them out the window. The next day, Jack found that the beans had sprouted into a… Read More »Jack and the Beanstalk
The assignment was to choose a mythical animal, and draw what its skeleton would look like, pretending we were scientific illustrators for National Geographic or something. Being a Sagittarius myself, I choose the Centaur. It has a horse’s body, but where the horse’s neck begins, starts the pelvis of a… Read More »Centaur Part 1
For homework in figure drawing class, we have been drawing different parts of the head in our sketch books. This week, we were assigned to put all of those parts together and do a self-portrait. I typically have a lot of trouble with self portraits because of the way the… Read More »Self portrait
The title says it all.
Warning: This post contains drawings of nude figure models for academic purposes. More figure drawing. One of them is more vine charcoal on warm gray paper, and the other is conte pencil on cool gray paper. The thing I like best about the latter, is that we drew the same… Read More »More Figure drawing. This time conte pencils are awesome
This is pretty straight forward. This charcoal drawing was done in figure drawing class, from a live model, in about 2 hours.We worked on gray paper so that we could bring out the highlights with a white charcoal pencil. I worked up the drawing with vine charcoal first, and then… Read More »Portrait in Charcoal
Warning: This post contains drawings of nude models for academic purposes. I have been cranking out work lately. I guess that makes sense when I am enrolled in more studio classes at once than ever before. The class that turns out finished drawings most rapidly is figure drawing, because for… Read More »Drawing the Figure.
Drawing from Life: it’s my fourth studio class this semester. My “elective,” even though I have to take another studio class. So far, so good in the course. We’ve met three times and the professor seems very nice and I think she loves what she does, so that’s always a… Read More »Describing with Shadows.
I have completed a new illustration! It has been added to the website’s main gallery as well as the illustration page. This is a graphite 9×12 illustration of a waterfall spirit. Our assignment was to create some sort of denizen of nature. A spirit, or ghoul, or god of the… Read More »Waterfall Illustration
Warning–this post contains pencil sketches of nude figures for education purposes. After five sessions, my Illustration class has concluded its unit on drawing directly from the figure. Prior to drawing from a model, we learned from a model skeleton about the correct proportions of the human body. We were given… Read More »Drawing from the Figure