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:

Ever since I was young I have had a fascination with trees. I enjoyed countless hours as a kid climbing them. As a teenager I loved drawing them and now as an adult I love to paint or draw them. I especially love willow trees. There is just something about nature that always draws me in. I believe its the sense of peace and beauty that it possess.

So the past two years or so I have created three different willow tree pieces. The first one I did I was merely doing it as a way to experiment with techniques such as the peeled acrylic. From that one piece I have gone on to do several more pieces with different focuses. I did a couple animal pieces and then one piece of a juice box using the same technique. I did one more willow tree in between some of those piece. And I just finished another willow tree piece. With each new piece I find I learn more about what I like and don't like regarding how I put the paint down. It's been a fun process.