This painting seemed too bright. After studying it awhile, I decided to only tone down the brilliant green in the distance to push it farther away. (“Push it” visually, not warp the canvas.) This is after: Hmmm, that’s a pretty subtle difference, perhaps even dubious*. Might want to try that again later. In addition, the […]
About Pencil Drawing
Here are a few thoughts about drawing with pencils. First, have you noticed that when galleries tell the medium used in making a piece of art, they say things like “oil”, “watercolor”, “acrylic”, or “pencil”? “Pencil”???? Isn’t that actually graphite? In a sense, calling a pencil drawing “pencil” is somewhat like calling a painting “brush”. […]
Finished.
I DID IT! For the first time in many years, I kept track of how long this took. Getting these little people to be themselves took a very very long time. (Don’t ask—not telling). It is probably (past) time to raise my prices.
Two Boys From Kansas
To show Friend/Customer how color will look on his drawing, I printed it on my unreliable printer and scribbled some color on the copy. This passed muster (not sure about this term but it has military origins). So, I pulled out my good colored pencils (Polychromos by Faber Castell) and colored the original. After I […]
One Hair Width
My friend/customer likes to challenge me. He thinks I can do things with my pencils that I am never sure I have the ability to do. We talk, I sketch, we talk some more, I revise, we talk some more—and that’s all before I begin the drawing. I’ve shown you some of this in progress, […]
Some Yardening, Some Walking, Some Drawing
(And I made cookies that morning too.) TODAY OUR POWER WILL BE OUT FOR THE BULK OF THE DAY, SO IF YOU ORDER A CALENDAR, EMAIL ME, OR COMMENT ON THIS POST, YOU WON’T BE GETTING A RESPONSE UNTIL THE EVENING OR TOMORROW. FIRST, 2025 CALENDARS. Available HERE. YARDENING I decided to dig the sweet […]
You Want Me to Draw WHAT??
Good thing that you (and my customers) know that I know how to draw, or this rough sketch would cause everyone to back away slowly, wondering how I could call myself an artist. This is a compilation, a conglomerate, a composite, of unrelated photos, following the ideas and instructions of a customer/friend with an interesting […]
Sold in Spring: 17 Paintings, 3 Pencil Drawings
Sales were slow last year, mostly due to the fact of my three selling locations either being closed or taking a big hit of one sort or another. This spring, things broke loose, opened up, took off. Have a look! (I may have forgotten some, because I fell out of the habit of keeping track.) […]
Drawing a Pennsylvania Dog in Pencil
Pencil Pennsylvanian? Pennsyl Pennsylvanian? Pencil Pencilvanian? Never mind. His name was Elvis, and some friends of his former owner commissioned me to draw him. All those inferior progress photos were taken with an inferior phone camera. Here is the finished drawing, scanned, photoshopped, ready for delivery.
Finished Pencil Drawing of a Cabin
I sure do know how to stretch a story out. . . have you noticed how many people use the cliché “long story short”, and then proceed to make a short story even longer? I am sort of doing that here, except I break it into chapters for you, because of another cliché that applies […]