New Artwork...

Just finished this last night...

"Lierre de Poison"

Art Nouveau style drawing of DC comics villainess Poison Ivy. I spent the entire month of April working on this nearly everyday. 97 different pencils used from 7 different brands on 18" x 24" vellum surface bristol paper. Some details below...

That was FUN! OK next?

Harley New Years!

Last new art for 2010

"La Quinn Nouveau"

Isnt she cute?

all colored pencil on approx. 11" x 14" vellum surface Bristol paper

New Artwork...

Just in time for Harley-Ween!

Inspired by Mucha's "Moon and Stars" series, I took a slightly less serious approach. Colored Pencil and Neo Color II crayons on 15"x31" museum board. Many thanks to the model Rachel. The figure study was posted sometime ago but I really didnt know what to do with it, so I put it aside and went onto something else. Eventually these things work themselves out, usually when I'm not actually trying to think of it.

This is just an Art Nouveau warm-up for the picture of Poison Ivy that I'm working on....see me in about 2 months!

New Artwork...

I finished this up about a week ago.

Various colored pencils and Neocolor II water-soluable crayons (wings only) on Museum board, approx. 14" x 18". I really agonized over this one for about 3 weeks before getting the Art Nouveau inspired design and colors that I was happy with. For those that have followed this blog at all, you might recall the graphite portrait of my art-friend Brandy that I did a while back... well, the model for this pic is her equally beautiful sister Rachel and I'd like to thank them both for sharing the photos and inspiring me to do this piece, I'm really pleased with how it came out!

New Artwork

I've spent the last 3 weeks working on these 3 preliminary pencil pieces. It started out as just one picture, then an art friend of mine said she thought it would make a nice series, so then I thought hmmmmmm, and all these ideas popped into my head and so then i thought, how about a series of 3 that all work together as one pic? So I worked out a design to tie them all together. Doing all 3 of these in Colored Pencil is going to be a serious challenge for a lot of reasons but I've already begun working out colors and trying things for backgrounds, etc. so there wont be too much guesswork once i start on the good board. I plan on using museum board for these so i have the option of using water-soluable pencils if i feel like it. I guess there's a bit of Olivia, a bit of Sorayama, a bit of Mucha and maybe somewhere in there a bit of myself as well! Keep in mind these are not finished pencil drawings so there are smudges, erasure lines and little buggers all over the place. The working title is "Break Shot" but that will probably get changed.

This was the one I did first. At first she was leaning on top of a huge spherical shape, then a silly-looking abstract penis shaped thing, but it was a bit much, then a smaller ball and her foot on a pyramid shape but it looked too much like "trained seal" stuff going on which i didnt like at all, then it hit me, hah, billiard balls!!! The only major changes made after i decided to make the series were I added the Nouveau style shape in the b/g, and I changed the numbers on the billiard balls to go with the color scheme I have in mind. The shoes were fun!

I had a heck of a time settling on a hairstyle for this one but I like how it ended up. Her outfit may get some changes as I'm not totally happy with it yet. Please excuse the gray smudgy spots in the b/g, this was done on rather thin sketch paper and the scanner lid made it a bit wrinkly.


I just finished this one last night. Probably one of the better figures I've done, I'm pretty happy with it! I may jazz up the shoes to better match the ones on the first piece though, like the cue-stick does!

Here's how they look all together! Total measurement will be over 4 feet wide i think, i have no idea how i will mat and frame these when finished but, oh well!