Tag: colored pencil
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Hurray! I Got Rejected!
I finally bit the bullet, and sent out an application to a gallery. I got a polite note back, saying my work was not a fit for the gallery. Also, the note said, that my information would be kept on file, in case there was a change. (Yeah, right?) So, why “Hurray!”? I’m celebrating that […]
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I have absolutely nothing to show you….but……
I’m working on “Making Peace with January”, and so far, it’s very pale…it would not show up very well. I’m doing glazes with the colored pencil, building up to what I call a Pisces Gray, made up of a lot of colors, but the eye blends them into gray. It’s a livelier gray than just […]
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Monday Morning coming down…
Happy New Week, my friends Here’s the sketch for this picture that I don’t have a title for yet. You can get an idea of the whole lost and found lines and color blocks. I may get a chance to work on the large version today, but like most people….today I go to my day […]
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Oh, the AGONY…..
“Winged Foal” is coming along agonizingly slow. It could be because I picked up a heavy, cast iron pan with my right hand alone. Managed to do something to my wrist and hand. They’re sort of numb, now, making it hard to grasp a pencil. So, enough complaining. Here’s another abstract from my long lost […]
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Completely Illrelevant, but then again, maybe not….
I’ll be working on the background of “Winged Foal”, and I expect it will take some time. Rather than bore you with repetitive pictures of the progress, I thought I’d post something I’ve shown no one, until now. A few years back I was totally stuck. My representational art was coming out less than awesome. […]
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Mother……..ing, son of a …….
I’ve started the sketch of “Scraggly Weed”. This is the 5×7 version, and the wall, of course is all off. It will be corrected in the final version. What I do have to do to make the butterflies stand out, is what is called “negative drawing”. You do the front first, and work around that […]
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