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. 

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!

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.

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.