WIP of Joshua

This is a picture of Joshua I have been wanting to paint for ten years.  He was 5 or 6 in this photo.  I have started laying in some watercolor washes.  I have not completely decided whether to finish this off with pastels or not.  Its going to take quite a few layers of watercolor first though.

First, I spattered in the underlaying colors of the woodchips.  I will add more details later.  this was messy and took hours to do quite a few layers and many colors.

Next I masked off all the cracks between the bricks.  Then I put a wash of Raw Sienna on the bricks.

When that dried I re-wet parts of the bricks and dropped in ultramarine blue.

After drying, I put a wash of perylene maroon over the bricks.

 



To be continued....

pictures of my studio

took some pics of my studio today. yes it's a mess, but it's very functional! you can see the snow coming down outside through the window, really cool!  144 square feet with two windows, two doors (one to the outside) and two closets.  I love my studio :)

Pastel of Joscelyn

I finally got around to finishing the pastel I was working on of Jocy wading in the Potomac.  I really love this picture of her and hope I did it justice :) as always, if you have any comments or you see anything I need to change please let me know :)

watercolor study

Hi all,
I did this watercolor last night as a study for the online group Watercolor workshop.  We were told to use three analogous colors (adjacent to each other on the color wheel)  I chose Ultramarine Turquoise, cobalt blue and cobalt violet.  I put Kathy's original painting below it.  This is the painting the group used.  thank you Kathy for a beautiful painting! you can see more of Kathy Nesseth's work here:  http://wcbykathynesseth.blogspot.com/
and here: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/kathy-nesseth.html

as I look at these together I realize how washed out mine is because I did not put in some darker values.  I may go back in and do that now that it is dry :)

as always C&C welcome and Thanks for looking :)

Bouquet

Hi all,
Haven't painted in oils in almost a year.  I wanted to try this palette knife painting of B. Alexander's painting "From My Garden".  The background is about 3 values to dark :(  I learned alot from this...like...knife painting is not as easy as it looks!

finished my wolf in class this week

Hi all,
here is the finished pastel wolf.  I used my new Sennelier pastels and some Terry Ludwigs  I HIGHLY recommend them both.  They are VERY soft :)  I will still use my rembrandts as I have become kinda attached to them but I will finish up with these :)