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...

First new art for 2010, woo hoo!

Approx. 10"x17" on Canson 65lb sketch paper, 2H and HB pencils and lots of erasing.

The model is my friend Rachel, who appeared once before in my artwork last year as my pretty little "Quazelfly"

I knew I'd want to draw her again someday and, well, here she is!

This is just a study and will end up being done in color pencil with some sort of b/g and possibly other figures as well. This is one of the best likenesses I've done to date (yeah, she's really THAT cute!) so I really hope I can repeat that success when I get to work on the color version.

Many thanks to Rachel for her generosity and enthusiasm to become a part of my art once again!

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!