Live Model drawings

Two Live model drawings I did as part of a group of artist that meet on Wednesday evenings to draw. I missed drawing live people so this has been fun to participate in.

Live Model study

Back in September I attended an art event where artist draw from a live model. This piece is done with watercolor on pastelbord. I was super happy with the results and plan to do more watercolor pieces on pastelbord.

Coloring Book- Personalized

 

 My twin sister and I decide for a friend's son's Birthday we would make him a personalized coloring book that feature him in it.  He loves dinosaur so the book featured him with dinosaurs. Upon completing it we got a request to do another one. Above are images of the second one we did with a colored cover. This little girl loves princesses so we made her each of the princesses. They both were great fun to work on.

We are available to do more if anyone interested please leave a comment below. The dinosaur theme is all ready we just add the child. We are working on a  few other themes too. Price varies depending on how many pages.

Mixed mediums

I've been working with various mediums trying to find which one I really connect with. Below you will find some pieces I've been messing around with.

A box

Above is a piece I created where I was playing around with watercolor and colored pencil combined. Both mediums are ones I haven't messed with enough so I am happy with the results but I believe I'm going to try it again with watercolor only and see how that looks. I'll post the image when I get it completed.

More Mini sketchbook designs

If you saw my previous post I had made some mini sketchbooks for some kiddos I knew. Well, I enjoyed making those so much I decided to make a few more but this time I came up with my own characters.... See below

Book Fun

I work with a group of kindergardners and our time together is coming to an end so to celebrate I made them mini sketchbooks. Check them out below....

Line work

For my site on Facebook called Artistic Kaleidoscope I created an image to use for the backdrop photo. I wanted to create something that had a lot of structure and design to it as well as being an image that had a simplicity to it. My final image has origami birds hanging from the branches which really completes the image. The picture shown here doesn't show that but is still a nice image.

As for this image I was doing a little sketching from a photo of a friends child. I loved how he was wearing a cowboy hat with a hoodie.

Watercolor pieces

 Here are a few more pieces I've been working on where I used water color.  The first piece is a piece depicting one of my fondest childhood memories.We would play in cardboard boxes at my best friends house almost every weekend. I choose to paint the boxes and and us playing in them in the background and then depict close ups of us in bubbles in the foreground.

These two pieces are practice pieces. I was trying to see how the medium would work with various subject matter.

Watercolor continued...

      A couple weeks ago I posted a watercolor piece I did of my cousin. Through the process of working on that piece I discovered I truly enjoy using watercolor but I didn't like the paper I was using.  So I decided to do another piece but this time around I chose to use watercolor paper instead of mixed medium paper. I see a real difference and great improvement in the quality of my work on this kind of paper. I also changed my subject matter and decided to do a portrait of my Boston Terrier.

A splash of Watercolor with a little color pencil in the mix

Hello all,
On Facebook I have been seeing a lot of artist posting works for the 3 pieces for 5 days Challenge. This inspired me to do a piece. I jumped out of my comfort zone and did a watercolor piece. I haven't messed around with real watercolor since high school so I went to my local craft store and purchased a nice watercolor set along with liquid frisket to give them a go. I'm pretty happy with my results. Still need to play around but overall I really enjoyed using this medium.

The picture below is of my cousin on the beach in Florida.

Steampunk art

So it's that time again.... deadline for our current Artistic Kaleidoscope theme!! The current theme is a piece inspired by Steampunk. I really enjoy drawing characters so for this piece I created my own steampunk character with her trusty sidekick... Monty the  flying rabbit. Okay, so he can't really fly on his own, but this hat with balloons attached does the trick!

Beauty- Fairytales continued...

I have finished another piece to my series on Fairy-tales. This one is the depiction of Beauty and the Beast. Enjoy!!

Chicks and Chat Paint Nite with Snacks

So I meet with a group of ladies once a month for a bible study and fellowship. For December we decided it would be fun to have a night of fellowship where we exchange cookies and I teach a painting lesson. I was super excited about it so below you will find three samples of pieces I whipped up for such an occasion.

A little sketch for a little friend

Yesterday I worked on a sketch of a ninja in a pink outfit for a little girl I know who is going to be a pink ninja for Halloween. She was excited to tell me what she was going as. We had a short conversation about it and at the end of the conversation I said I would draw her a pink ninja. Below you will find the colored sketch.

The Storm

A few post back I posted a painting I did for the Artistic Kaleidoscope group entitled: Rain. I was thrilled with how that one turned out I decided I would attempt to do a whole cloud series. I have recently discovered that if I want to grow as an artist I need to do studies of subjects and through that I will develop into a better artist. So this series will be just that .... studies of clouds with other elements incorporated into them.

Easton Chalk-The-Block Event

Every year  for the past three years my sister and I have participated in the Easton Chalk- the -Block event held in September. This year my sister and I decided to do a piece around a Botanical theme. My sister did research on various plants and choose a plant that is very unique. It's called the Corpse flower which stinks and it only blooms once a year. We thought it would be fun to draw this flower and incorporate some kind of humorous aspect to the piece. The end result ended up being the flower with a Gnome reading a book and holding his nose while seated on a mushroom right next to the stinky flower. The piece was 10 feet by 10 feet. Below is the finished piece.

Snow White and the rest of the gang

 I am proud to say I finished another art piece for my fairy tale series. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a great fairytale. So many films have been made of the tale with there own little twist. I decided I would create my snow white in a more abstract manner to give you the jets of the tale with as few elements as possible. After completed the snow white piece I decided it would be interesting to see all the pieces together as a college on the wall. I was so excited to see them all together on the wall. I think this would be a lovely collection in a child's bedroom with the various tales and frames. So fun!! Would love to do one for Belle and on one for Frozen but I still haven't come up with a clear concept yet.... any suggestions??

Artistic Kaleidoscope- Theme #3

My sister and I created a Facebook page and group called: Artistic Kaleidoscope where artist can create works focused on an overarching theme. We select a new theme every few months. The current theme was Another Place Another Time: If there was an answer he would find it there. The theme came from a page in the book: 'The Mysteries of Harris Burdick', By: Chris Van Allsburg. I thought if would be fun to do my own interpretation on one of  the phrases in the book. The book is truly worth checking out. It has great illustrations. Below you will find my finished piece and below that you will see the illustration from the book.

Fairy Tales Continued

I finished another piece that is apart of the Fairy Tale collection I've been working on. I've been at a stand still with it for a little while. However, I finally created something I like. I also found a pretty awesome frame at Hobby Lobby that completely works with the piece.... super happy!! Check it out below: