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.

Tye Dye Storm

PanPastel on Strathmore Watercolor Paper 9 x 6

I played with PanPastel a bit at the fountain in front of St. Jude's Catholic Church.  The rain started falling on the paper before I had quite finished.

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.

Pear in Colored Pencil

Colored Pencil on 5x7 Canson 98 lb paper

I used a demo from Arlene Steinberg's Masterful Color for this bit of practice.  Despite its small size, it took a long time. 

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.

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. 

Black Lava Sketch

Here is a quick tree sketch using Liquitex Black Lava.  It was my first time using this medium.  It's like a fancy glitter glue!

Red Pepper

7.5 x 7 with Prismacolor colored pencils on 98 lb Canson paper.  I used an underpainting with complimentary colors, just like with my previous tomato drawing.  Colored pencil work takes forever!  Here is the underpainting:

A Float

My instructor, Kara English gave a demo on how to make a "float" painting last week, and so I decided to give it a try this past weekend.  I bought four colors of spray paint: paprika, oregano, aqua and flat black.  Okay, actually I purchased five- also a can of metallic silver.  However, the silver spray paint was quite defective.  I placed my canvas out in the rain and let it pour down.  Then, I sprayed the colors over the wet canvas, making the cool watery patterns.  I am told this resembles 1990s furniture patterns . . . 

Acrylic Ink Pouring Experiments

Here are my first experiments with Golden High Flow Acrylic paint on photo paper.

Tomato

Here is a tomato sketch using Prismacolor colored pencils, tan card stock and the instruction of Arlene Steinberg (Masterful Color).

Sunflowers

This sunflower doodle was made on 98 lb Canson paper using black ink.

Color Wheel

Color Wheel on 98 lb Canson paper using Prismacolor colored pencils.  I made this color wheel based on the instruction of Arlene Steinberg (Masterful Color).

The Process Red looks like more of a magenta to me.