Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Be With Me Still


Be with me
Still
Is the night
For two?

Nice To Sketch You

I read last night that the "Happy Painter" from the sketching group online called Every Day Matters, started painting faces earlier this year. She is an inspiration - in such a short period of time she has developed a wonderful style. Cool too.

Her amazing progress was on my mind while drawing this model. It pushed me to jazz it up.

The photo I worked with came from Ophrah's Magazine on a page called "square faces".

Sunday, October 5, 2008

October 5 2008







Destiny: "the seemingly inevitable or necessary succession of events". Webster's Dictionary

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

September 30th 2008

I don't know why I love this painting so much but I do. The original is really small, 3x5 inches, and was completed using a sharpie on
watercolor block.

The image you see has not been altered in Photoshop. The color came directly from a little $ 3.00 set of student watercolors.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Joan Oliver Next To My Painting, Miss Chrissy

This photo of Joan Oliver was taken at my art opening on Friday night
She's with "Miss Chrissy, Anything is Possible"
Watercolor

September 26 2008, Brainstorming


Here is a drawing that was never intended for the web. My friend Joan Oliver and I occasionally get together to "co-coach" each other - we each pick an area in our life that we would like to excel in and then we go about putting structures into place to assure success. I love to cold call and recently decided to pursue a position for 20 or so hours per week doing just that. Joan had asked me to collage the dream job and this lighting speed sketch lists qualities that are important to me.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

September 24 2008. A Study in Values


Tonight I'm missing my parents. It's late and there is a photo right next to me. The moment captured took place in my home state, Vermont. Beautiful Manchester. My mom and I are laughing and surely my dad was amused taking the photo. We were at one of his favorite restaurants. When I wrote "Value Study" across the sketch I immediately thought of the incredible values my parents instilled in their children.

Both pieces were done as a sketch first using a regular pencil, scanned and loaded into Photoshop.

Monday, September 22, 2008

September 23 2008, "Love is a Choice"

Doing the best you can. Making something special. Today I've been consumed with creating some meaningful images to fit the theme of my first ever art show - Abolition & Justice.
This piece is a watercolor painting of mine after a trip through photoshop.
This was inspired by a Carter Hayward quote:
"Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies"

September 21 2008, Flowers


Tonight I wanted to draw something beautiful and picked a pot of yellow flowers. The black and white sketch you see here got clipped in the scanning process but given the late hour (3:00 am) I thought I'd go with it. After all , sometimes mistakes turn out best. I really like the photoshop version.