Drowning

This is a self-portrait pulling from the oddness resulting from lack of sleep. It began as a watercolor however I messed it up pretty badly. Luckily I had scanned the pencil work before I started painting, so it just ended as a digital piece. I may have gotten carried away with the bubbles...

Drowning 6x10 digital

Lincoln, best stress reliever or best stress reliever?

In other words I painted Abe Lincoln on a vespa for no other reason then to laugh and have fun. The background may be lack luster but really, how could anyone or anything take away from the glory that is Vespa Lincoln? They / It would have to be really horrible.

Vespa Lincon 8x12 Watercolor

Koi pond

Recently I've been working on a painting of a Koi pond for a friend's bathroom. I decided to separate the piece into three panels, each having a shared element with the last to move the piece forward. Each painting is on a 8x8 panel board.

To start each painting I used a detailed ink underpainting.

I then added the undertones in glazed oils.

Once the first layers dried the brighter colors were added finishing the piece. :)

That might sound overly simplified, however this process really just is that easy. Also fun! Once all the panels are completed I'll show show the rest.

Portrait practice

This weekend I find myself in Virginia without much to do, so I decided to take advantage of this by learning to draw portraits and figures a little bit better. Here's the result so far.

In salute to Mother's Day...

..here's a painting about greedy children! This is a piece for my pictorial foundation class and is based off the sentence "everything is broken." I continued my experiment with liquid inks and it's starting to turn out better.