Molly

Soft pastel sketch of Molly on black Canson Mi Tientes, 11 x 8.5

Freya

Found some of the old winton oil paints that I started out with and decided to do a little sketch with them on canvas paper. After getting used to artist grade oils, these was hard to paint with, just can't get it to do what I want though it could have been because of the worn out bristles I was using.


Oil on canvas paper, 6 x 8

A portrait sketch of Roland for the monthly portrait challenge at Wetcanvas.com.


Soft pastel on Colourfix primer, 10 x 7.5

Recent sketches

Oil on mounted linen, 7 x 5
Limited palette of titanium white, yellow ochre, venetian red, and paynes gray

The next one is a page from the sketch book done with ink and the rest are charcoal on either newsprint or toned paper, 12 x 9.

Some recent sketches

Got some watercolors to try to start sketching outdoors, I figured it would be less of a hassle than setting up for oils or soft pastel. Anyhow, I ordered some WC sketchpads along with the watercolors among other things but a bottle of linseed oil broke in the box and damaged the WC pads (which I guess they knew since I wasn't charged for them). Luckily, nothing else was damaged thanks to plastic wrappings. This first sketch is done on a damaged section of the WC paper for practice being new to watercolor and what not.

Hopper Coast in Cape Cod
Watercolor on paper, 3.5 x 3.5

Chiaki Kuriyama
Charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 12 x 9

Habanero Peppers
Acrylic on linen, 5 x 7

Haven't done much lately except for a few sketches, just haven't got any energy for much else. Anyhow, here are a few recent sketches ... the first one is vine charcoal and chalk on gray paper, 12 x 9. The rest are charcoal pencil and chalk on brownish toned paper, also 12 x 9s.

PortraIt study

Done ala prima, took approximately 2.5 hours

Oil on linen, 7 x 5