LIFE drawing

HERE

are three from a short session.

3 minute poses....

DERWENT INKTENSE PENCILS

dipped in water and rough brushed.

All in a row...

I bailed halfway through

the morning session.  

For privacy,

the model was against a big pillar

with a beautiful, but glaring,

waterfront view behind.

Sorta fried my eyes after a while...

Illustration Friday: "SWEPT"

'STAR DUST'

I PAINTED THIS TODAY

over an existing collage of 4 papers. It's

way faster than doing it digitally....

Acrylic, goauche, pencil

and type film.

He's getting the new day together.

Here's a star detail:

And the sweeper:

''THREE WISHES'

'THREE WISHES'

is a mixed medium painting

with a collage border.

I like to paint pattern repeat that 

LOOKS like block printing but isn't.

I like the way the genie's lamp's handle

sort of repeats the paisley designs.

A little gold scroll in the center.

And more curvy lines in a typographical border

which I took from the key caps on my Mac.

I typed them out in a larger font size

and printed them on vellum.

Then a whitewash of acrylic before

gluing them around the painting.

'I COME IN PEACE'

THIS IS

inspired by all the extraterrestrials

who are handsome and misunderstood.

The original is watercolor over acrylic and

oil pastel with decorations in 23 carat gold.

This is a print of the original

and shows how I present prints

in the gallery. Mounted on acid-free

Canson paper which carries the title, edition number

and signature in pencil.

My prints go out of the gallery for

$50. or $55. on an acid free foamcore board 

in an acid free Clearbag

from Impact Images. 

Easy and

pays the rent.

Pays for the gold, too!

Detail below...

Just picking up on the triangle design...

Napkin

'Did this for a SPOONFLOWER contest.

The challenge: a design for an 18 " napkin

created using crayon.

I only have oil pastels and they're messy.

To make crisp  pebble designs I cut the shapes from 

decorated papers.

It all laid flat on the scanner, but ultimately

a whole day shot.

Here it is cleaned up.

And the huge file was a slowpoke and still came out fuzzy.

Curiously, I didn't see much I liked in

the contest.

'MOON SHADOW'

'MOON SHADOW'

The owl is awake.

The moon doses above the rose.

Petal-sized wings flutter

outside the windows

filled with light.

Mixed media on rag board.

The moon's face is watercolor

on gold-flecked tissue

collage.

Owl's eyes are picked out in white gouache.

The little star behind and the white border are

type correction film.