Cornflower Blue

I know it's been a while since I posted, but I have been very busy with commission work and other things. I am finally able to share this piece with you though! I finished this little cutie up a few days ago. I was requested to draw this portrait all in graphite, but then do his eyes in blue. I will admit that at first I was hesitant and thought "that will look awful!" but because the customer is always right, I said "alright!". I am so glad I did it because I am very pleased with how it turned out. Really ads a nice POP of color to the piece. And with eyes that beautiful, who wouldn't want to show them off! ;)
How great is it that I get to draw portraits of such good lookin' people!?

Starting Off

Before the Blue

Absolutely Adorable!

Master of Disguise

I finally finished it! I was inspired to draw an octopus in ink, and once I finished the octopus, I couldn't help myself...so I just drew the rest of the page with abstract stuff that could possibly imitate under the sea creatures. And now my nice ink pen is officially dead!
See if you can spot the octopus.

Finished 

A close up

close up

Just another portrait...this time, not so famous as the last.

Finished!

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

After coming across an old portrait of Marilyn Monroe (I think I drew her 4 years ago) I was inspired to take another whack at it! The first one is...well, not all that flattering ;)

Finished!

In Motion

Just another sketch. This time in motion.

Male Form in Action

A Study

Well, I haven't posted in a while because I have just been very busy, but I decided that I had to do something today. So, of course, I drew more of the figure. This time, I focused more on the male form which is really great fun to draw...those muscles! Enjoy!

Male Boxer

Male Abdomen

The Figure

Just a few sketches I did up today. I am absolutely loving the human body, it's an amazing subject to draw. No matter what position or how you compose the figure, there are always so many contours created by the muscle-which make for fascinating drawings!

Female Back

Male Dancers Legs

It's Positive to be Negative

This post is of a project we had to do for my Figure Drawing class. We had to draw the "negative space" in our composition. So our model was holding a staff and had a furniture of some sort with him as positive space, our job was to draw everything else; therefore creating his figure as well as the other objects. This is an off-take of what we usually do, which is draw the positive space and do all of the details of the figure. It took a while for me to get used to the idea that all we were doing was a TON of shading! After the fact, I realized I should have made my positive space a bit larger because I had way to much to shade in!! ;)

The quality of the pictures is not that great, but at least you can get the idea.

A Never Ending Project

So I was recently given a little purse size sketch book and decided to decorate the inside lining of it just to add a little pizzazz and pop when I open it. Of course, I did an abstract ink design. Once I finished one side, I couldn't help myself and decided to do the other side....and then after that I felt the need to decorate the very back of the book as well. So over a period of three days, I have created some pretty cool designs! Enjoy!

Blind Leading the Blind

For my last semester at college, I have decided to take some art classes, one of which is Figure Drawing. I have only had three classes so far, but I am really enjoying it, especially the last class session we had. Each class period we have a model come in for us to draw, this last time we had a guy volunteer (a dancer and theater performer) so he was an excellent model! To warm up, for the first half of class, our professor had us do blind contour drawings. This is where the artist only looks at the item (figure) she is drawing and NOT the paper-at all!! Not only that, but the pen cannot lift up off of the paper. It is supposed to be one continuous line, and you are to go very slowly. This exercise is done so that with time, the artist's hand and eye become more coordinated. All in all, it was a really fun exercise  and I was rather surprised at how my figure came out in most of them...better than I thought it would! ;)

Generally, when you have finished the blind contour, the figure is hardly recognizable-but these are ok. So it's a great way to become more coordinated and it is very relaxing. 

The Hang Out

About three weeks ago I decided to finally put some paint on a canvas I've had sitting in my closet for far too long. I saw it on sale at an art store about a year ago and was thrilled to finally have an opportunity to paint on a canvas of this size (it's the biggest I've ever painted on before). So, I bought it and was very excited...yet I had no clue what I was going to paint on it!! Story of my life ;) I was finally inspired, and this is what the canvas now looks like. 

Oil on Canvas-20"x 24"

A closer look

A simple, fresh and cute display of happy little birds!