Lotus

   

A lotus sketch in colored pencil.

St. Jude Catholic Church

Pencil sketch on 6 x 9

Here is a little sketch I made in the dark last night.  I need to work on strengthening my perspective drawings.  I will try to do another one next week.

Frontal Perspective House

I sketched this little frontal perspective house in front of St. Jude's Catholic Church.

Stairway

Graphite on 7x10 inch Canson paper (98 lb)

I completed another exercise from the perspective book by Mercedes Braunstein. I used a 6B graphite pencil- quick, fun and easy.

Pouring Experiment

Acrylic on 6.75x4.75 masonite

Here is a pouring experiment with pouring medium, regular house paint and a little dusting of gold.

Door

 

"Door," mixed media on 98 lb Canson paper

I made a quick little door sketch using graphite, Prismacolor colored pencil, PanPastel and black ink.  I would like more practice with sketching, so I am working through exercises in a perspective book by Mercedes Braunstein. 

Melting Moonlight

"Melting Moonlight," acrylic and oil-based spray paint on 18x14 canvas

I wanted to experiment with abstraction, so I took my canvas outside, poured water all over it, then applied flat black and metallic silver oil based spray paints all over.  I dropped in Golden High Flow Acrylic in Quinacridone Magenta, Phthalo Blue, Carbon Black and Titanium White.  I let the blue and magenta flow together to create various shades of violet, as I wanted an analogous color scheme of magenta, violet and blue.  I just had fun with my experiment, letting the paints flow freely.  Here was the result:

I wanted the subject of my painting to go along with what the paints did on their own.  When I looked at my canvas, I saw a tree and a sinking, melting moon.  I wanted my tree to be twisted, like some of the trees I noticed around Palo Duro Canyon, or even in New Mexico.  At first, my tree's branches all went to the left side.  I decided to add the right lower branch to give my painting a better sense of balance.  I wanted to use a texture paste my son bought me, Liquitex Black Lava, so I drew my tree freehand with a black paint marker, then went over it with the Black Lava.  My last step was painting more High Flow Quinacridone Magenta all over my tree.