I have extremely cooperative kids. The early stages of creating captured digigraphs by piling objects on my scanner coincided with the girls experimenting with hair dye. As a substitute for expressing themselves through facial piercing, they were allowed to do anything they wanted with their hair. Our house became the dye parlor of the neighborhood, …
Since the sketch I did during Danielle’s graduation was meant to be a gift, I was nervous about applying watercolor washes to the original sketch. I scanned the original and printed it on Arches watercolor paper using my Epson 2200 printer. I then painted the print rather than the original. I’ll let Danielle decide which …
Thankfully there is a bit of blue to offset the analogous colors. I continue to be fascinated with the abstractions created by reflections in store windows. I love the way that the reflected shapes work with the objects on display. This painting is mostly neutrals, set off by the pink neon sign and the blue …
Fortunately, formulas do not always fit the needs of a painting. I am having a hard time labeling the color scheme of this illustration I did in the early 90’s as a mock-up cover for Cricket Magazine. The illustration was inspired by a “Fairy” themed birthday party for Alexis and Nicole. Two of their friends …
Using my Richard Schmid Color Charts and my color/value chart for reference and clean color: I began this 12″ x 16″ painting in the living room of my dear friend, Jane. The idea was inspired by Bonnard’s interiors. Though I had wanted to complete the painting in one session, the shapes weren’t interlocking well and …
I am posting three examples of Exercise #5 using photographs as reference materials. I stopped each watercolor sketch after fifteen minutes and moved on to the next one, allowing absolutely no time to fuss. This is an excellent exercise in simplicity. The above example shows the original photo reference, the 10 minute contour drawing and …