Overcast Value study

Pleasantly overcast afternoon the other day. I loved how the super dark trees popped against the yellow leaves, I never would have put these colors together in my imagination. I guess that why it's good to get outside once in a while. 

Stephanie Portrait

This was a sketch I did of my 7 year old, Stephanie. She loves her very pretty dresses. I was trying the super smooth brush look.  The more I do this color thing the more difficult it seems to get. Maybe my standards are getting higher for myself and I should back off and not care.

Value Study

Over the Thanksgiving week I got a ton of drawing and painting time in. My Wacom pen died right after this study, so I finished the week in my sketch book.  The bottom shot was a view out of one of the windows at the Gold Beach house. I've seen many value studies but never really used them. It was a very helpful step.

Adventure Club Concepts

 These are all sketches for an adventure story.  This is the boy cousin, a rash teenager. We've picked a couple shots and will develop those further.

 This is the girl cousin, very plain and more introverted and careful than the boy is.  It's interesting how these personality traits color my sketches for these characters.

Just something for the imagination.  The setting for this is New York in the 1920's.  This might be a dock or something. Their personalities are showing a bit.  I'm looking closer at haircuts and 20's fashion.