Avril Lavigne

Did a soft pastel sketch of Avril on a 12 x 9 piece of charcoal paper while watching television.

Some recent sketches

Soft Pastel on Wallis, 3 x 4.5

Soft pastel on Newsprint, 12 x 9

Soft pastel on Newsprint, 12 x 9

Victoria Secret Model and a Simple Program

Started this one with the sketch board on the easel but quickly found out that I can't sketch that way so took it down, sat down, put it on my lap and leaned it against the table. Spent 1.5 hours on this thus far mostly worked around the facial area and still a lot more to do before it is finish.... now that I put it down, it might take me forever to get back to it

Setup for the small application that is used for practicing timed sketching/painting, programmed with Visual Basic. It is built to read JPEG files only.

Image Viewer Setup Download

Pastel Sketch

This started as a rough sketch using Nupastels on newsprint, but somehow I ended up refining the forms (parts of it anyhow) and added colors to the background without any intentions of doing so.

Nude sketch

Pastel, 12 x 9

Still learning ...

to paint landscapes ... I don't know what it is but it just seems that I cannot get it close to being right ... just have to keep trying.

Oil on canvas, 5 x 7

Soft pastel, 6 x 8

Experimenting

Figure Sketch

Charcoal, 12 x9

The shape of the figure was quickly blocked in using a cotton ball soaked with charcoal dust then using a kneaded eraser to do the form modeling. Then at the end, used a charcoal pencil to add a linear contour as well as a little bit of detail. Not sure how long this took but estimated to be around 10 to 15 minutes.

Saki

Oil on mounted canvas, 8 x 6