the Year in Art....

"Angelina 2013" 

"Ball of Fire"

model is Tanit Isis 

"Coloretta - Portrait of Loretta Young"

"Portrait of Ginger Rogers"

"Starchild"

Model is Ifigenia T.

"Our Dancing Daughter - Portrait of Joan Crawford"

"Portrait of Ann Dvorak"

"Portrait of Brandy - revised"

"Portrait of Loretta Young"

"Toby Wing"

"Warrior Princess"

master copy exercise of Frank Frazetta's  "Silver Warrior"

"Mata Harley"

New Artwork...

"Mata Harley"

I had an idea...

New Artwork...

Portrait of Joan Crawford - title "Our Dancing Daughter"

All colored Pencil on 18" x 24" Strathmore 300 series tinted charcoal paper

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New Artwork...Toby Wing!

Just finished this up last night...

"Portrait of Toby Wing" - For those that aren't familiar with her, Toby was a chorus girl and actress in the 1930's, usually showing up in either a Paramount or Warner Bros picture. She appeared in several of those famous Busby Berkely musical numbers, often being one of the "Close-up girls". She was photographed and publicized constantly and even has a star on the Holly wood walk of fame! Not bad considering almost all of her film appearances are uncredited bit parts! 

 All colored pencil on 15" x 15" strathmore 500 series tinted paper. I used only 2 colors, dark umber and white, which is something I never tried before but I wanted to emulate the vintage sepia look of the old movie star photos. Also, I rarely ever make a square picture and for some reason I rarely ever draw blondes! 

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Loretta Young :D

Just finished last night...

I've been watching so many of her pre-code films lately (courtesy of TCM's awesome star of the month tribute to her in January) that I felt compelled to try and capture lovely Loretta on paper. Canson tinted paper to be exact, approx 15" x 20" with 2H and HB pencil and white colored pencil.

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New Artwork...

Finished up this past weekend, another "Master Copy" exercise working from a Frank Frazetta oil masterpiece, this time "Silver Warrior", which I added a little twist to and changed into Wonder Woman, haha! Just copying exactly would be boring for me so I have to do something to add some fun to the challenge of ATTEMPTING to emulate Frank's painterly style using colored pencils...I am very pleased with how this came out and rather like to think Wonder Woman fits this concept well. I tried my best to make her look like how a Frazetta Wonder Woman might look and I enjoyed designing the Wonder Sleigh! I learned some valuable lessons making this picture and that's what these copy exercises are all about. OK...next?

btw for those that might be interested I now have a facebook page dedicated to my art. I post all the finished work as well as Work in Progress and other fun and/or useless things

New Artwork...

My model friend Ifigenia T., a.k.a. "Crowsreign" as KISS's "Starchild". Ifigenia is a Greek beauty with a really bad ass rock and roll attitude and me being a Kiss fan from waaaaay back I thought this was a good combo! If you want to see more of her go here or here to see the stock photo I referenced 2H and HB pencils on 18" x 24" drawing paper.

New Artwork...

A revised version of a portrait of Angelina Jolie I did back in 2005. I have always liked her pose and expression and liked the overall shape of her hat, but as time went on I realized my original execution fell far short of the pictures potential and was worth a re-doing at some point when I felt confident enough to improve on it. Never too far from my mind was the work of the Pre-Raphaelite masters of the Victorian era, especially John Millais, William Holman Hunt and Arthur Hughes and also the classicists Fredrick Leighton and Herbert Draper. I studied their work intensely while working on this picture, especially Hughes' "The Long Engagement" and Draper's "Potpourri". Even to attempt working in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites means much labor time and tho I don't have an exact figure, I know i spent well over 100 hours on this, more than 12 hours alone just on the bow.

Tech stuff: all colored pencil on 18" x 20" museum board. I used 88 different pencils from about 6 different brands and lots of solvent.

Below is the 2005 version.

New Artwork...

Graphite portrait of my friend "Ginger" from Asleep in New York...Over 2 years in the making!..well actually it took 2 days but it was over 2 years ago I talked to her about doing a picture of her. I hope it was worth the wait!

Self Portrait 2012

AKA "Me and My Bitches"

HAPPY HARLEYWEEN 2012!

some new artwork...

busy, busy, busy...

btw, you steal my art, I break your face...I'm glad we understand each other now.

Happy Birthday Shayera-Hol...

better known as Hawkgirl

I did this colored pencil drawing of her about 8 or 9 years ago. Based more on Bruce Timm's version of her than anyone elses.

HAPPY HARLEYDAYS!

Happy Harleyween 2011

What could be better than celebrating Halloween with the Maiden of Mirth?...I started this tradition last year and intend on keeping it going for as long as i feel like keeping it going!

I've been giving my art studio a much-needed overhaul but spent a few nights on this for the holiday. 2H and HB pencils on drawing paper. Ok everybody lets hear a Halloween Happy Harley Squeak, on three...1...2...3...squeee!

New Artwork...

An impossibly long-legged model aquaintence of mine (Man, I sound like Brando in "Streetcar"!) over at Deviant Art asked if anyone wanted to draw her as an Alien and I thought it would be fun to give it a shot! What I ended up with looks to me like a cross between an H.R. Geiger chick, a Sorayama fetish painting and an alien babe from the old Star Trek but she loves it!

Title - "OUCH!"
Graphite on approx 8" x 12" drawing paper

New Artwork...

Just finished this tonight...

New Artwork...

Just finished this last friday night...

Title: "Kinda-Maybe-Somewhat-Semi-Sort-of"

all colored pencil on 15" x 26" museum board, its basically life size. By the time I finished I had used 92 different pencils.

Just having some fun with "Steampunk". This is the first time I ever worked from pictures of a model that I took myself. Yes her neck is really that long and graceful.

It looks better in person.

More fun with Harley Quinn...

A recent aquisition, a collector plate autographed by Harley herself, Arleen Sorkin! Squee!

Below are 2 sketches I've done recently, just for fun and practice.

Harley Berzerker!

New Artwork. . .

title: "Mad Gone World"

all colored pencil on 20" x 29" museum board

* excuse the crappeh pic, its just way too big to scan