Month: September 2009
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My Brand New Art Journal!
My friend Leslie Herger at Comfortable Shoes has been running a lot of videos of various artists and their art journals. I have been enraptured by many of them and decided that I HAD to try this. After two days of watching Suzy Blu Tube videos and stalking Leslie on Twitter where I asked her…
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Portrait WIP V
Posted by mobile phone: I have about come to the end of this little fella. I will spend a little more time strengthening the values around the mouth and neck, but I think for the most part I’m going to call this done. Hopefully I can get finished up what I need to and get…
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Portrait WIP IV
When last we left our hero, he was contemplating starting over on the nose of our little friend… If you look at his nose in this image, you can see that it’s not quite right to the photo. It gives him kind of a muzzle that’s not really there. From the photo, the right hand…
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Portrait WIP III
Just over two weeks ago, I started a portrait of a friends toddler. Working in my little makeshift studio, at about 30 minutes a session, I believe that I am closing in on this tyke. I didn’t get to work on this very much over Labor Day Weekend. I would like to say that it…
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Sunday Funnies 06SEP2009
“Like a Red Rubber Ball…” This is the kind of thing that makes my dinner cold. I get an idea in my head and I have to put it to paper. This afternoon we had lunch at my grandmother’s house. The long standing tradition there is that while waiting for lunch, I would always read…