Morning Cup
Pen and charcoal on paper, 8 1/2″ X 7 1/2″
This drawing of my Mom as a teen earned it’s title because that’s what she wrote across the photograph the drawing was inspired by.
Chalk and charcoal on color paper, 8″ X 10″
December 30, 2009
November 20, 2009
October 23, 2009
Water Soluble Pencils
Some people aren’t sure what I’m talking about when I mention water soluble pencils. They look and work like regular ol’ color pencils except if you dip a paintbrush in water and go over them they dissolve. Regular ol’ pencils will just get wet. In case you were wondering what the pencil drawing (October 21, 2009, “Seated Woman in Color“) looked like before I added the wash, well, here it is. If I were going to leave it as a pencil-only drawing I would have 1) used different paper; this is very coarse watercolor paper, and 2) I would have added a lot more detail. You can see a regular ol’ color pencil example, September 27, 2009, “South Padre“.
October 21, 2009
Seated Woman in Color
This is a hybrid drawing/painting. It was done with water soluble pencils finished with a delicate wash. Even though it utilizes a brush and painting styles it is more of a drawing than a painting.
Watercolor pencil on paper, 10″ X 10″
September 12, 2009
Four Dentists
Four generations of dentists in one family. Impressive. So they wanted me to do some portraits for them. They are all separate drawings. I put them together in one image just for convenience and comparison. We added jackets so all the images would be similar. Then we gave them all name tags showing who they are and what school of dentistry they attended. And, oh yeah, the next dentist is already in college.
Each drawing: pencil on paper, 8″ X 6″
August 17, 2009
July 21, 2009
June 25, 2009
April 17, 2009
Boy Wonder
What can be more intriguing than watching a snail crawl? To a four year old boy, there is wonder in almost everything.
Acrylic on canvas, 20″ X 16″
February 25, 2009
Uma? Ora?
A friend of mine recently mused that it might be fun to go back in time and “hang” with her parents when they were young. It reminded me of a little ditty I had done and I promised her I’d post it.
As we grow older, so do our parents. Interesting how that works. Looking at old photos of our parents as young adults can be intriguing. But, of course, the fashions and styles are from another era. I had wondered what my young twenty-something Mom would look like with a more modern hairstyle. So, I replaced Uma Thurman’s face with my Mom’s from a photo taken in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
I think she’s beautiful.