I've been very busy! I have two illustrations for my children's book in the final stages, and I completed a couple of smaller paintings that I started but never finished. I also received my first pet portrait commission that I will be posting on www.PetIllustrations.com and mailing out later today. I haven't launched my online marketing plan, in hopes that I get a few more local orders to 'test' the ordering Read More
I'm happy to report that the Oak Leaf Artist Guild website is in the completion stage. Translated: means that pending some very minor changes and any audits that the guild may have, it's finished! Again I want to thank my wonderful husband for all his hard work in building the site for us! This means that from here on out most of the work will be from the other guild Read More
OLAG Website: I've been working on it and it's coming along nicely. Jesse hopes to have the gallery basics by the end of the week, and I've been working on adding content and getting the pages all put together. I should have something that resembles a real website to show the group this Thursday at the meeting. Children's Book: I haven't had much time to work on it, but I did Read More
As promised, images of my newest two pieces! They are both collage, mixed media pieces on paper. I really love working with collage because as I create the collage itself I get impressions and create stories; which then translate into the painting and drawing that will often times cover up the inspiration images. It's always interesting to see what it will turn out like. "Mythology" "Tale of Tails" I also Read More
As I've mentioned in previous posts I've been working on an extra project for the "Puppies are Biodegradable Show," and I finished the last one today! Each of the below pieces are 5"x7" Pen & Color Pencil on paper. I have to say that I'm really happy with how they turned out. I kept the rendering loose and used unnatural colors to emphasis the eerie subject, hopefully the shock Read More
This is a detail of the St. Bernard painting after I've worked on it a little more. I still have a bit of work to do on the head, and I had to get more reference to piece together to get what I have so far; but he is nearly there. Close up you can see some of the layering and texture of the background;some of the layers are slick, others Read More
As promised, here are some images of the pieces I've been working on for the "Puppies are Biodegradable Show." Please note that these images are of pieces I recently started and are thus still in progress. It might be hard to see, but the background consists of paper glued on and painted over to create texture. The angry red-orange slash in the middle of the painting was part of the Read More
I've been working on the pieces for the "Puppies are Biodegradable" show, trying to expand on some of my original ideas. Here is what I have at this point. St. Bernard the Rescue Dog: I've gotten as far as roughing in the St. Bernard and working out the overall layout. This piece is going to contain a textured background (care of an old collage painting that I'm re-purposing for Read More
Below I've attached an image taken from www.framations.com of a small selection of the Centerpieces created for the Marti Gras Event. For more information go to www.bcifoundation.org/Events.htm and click the tab "Behind the Mask."
Below I have pictures of the finished Marti Gras Centerpiece along with one of the concept sketches that I did. When doing a concept sketch it's generally more of a diagram with text and notes than a sketch. The real purpose is to get some ideas on paper before I forget, and since there isn't really a client involved I don't have to worry too much about Read More