Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween everybody! I hope I . . . er I mean Yvette gets a lot of twix bars.

Ornaments

I know it's too early to start talking about Christmas but I'm getting a head start by making some swinging ornaments. I want to make a bunch of these, they're so cool! Made with sculpey and acrylic paint.

portfolio

I am working on creating new portfolio pieces to send out. I'm trying to focus on children's publishing, books, magazines and the like.

trees

John, Yvette and I went camping in the Shenandoah this weekend and I painted this scene next to our cabin while Yvette was napping. The sun was beating down and my gouaches were drying out before I could get them onto the paper which was a challenge.

still life

Just for practice.

More sketchbook

Colors

I went with the last color study. I think next time I do these I'm going to make them a little more detailed.



And the finished piece.



I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. I think taking the time to do the value and color studies and the underpainting are worth it. I was influenced to do this piece after reading James Gurney's Color and Light book. I wanted to try a glowing light effect.