On Stage

12x6 India ink on Fabriano 140 lb cold press watercolor paper done today.  I first sketched the singer with one of my new black waterproff Lictin pens (Micron substitute) .03, available in a pack of 7 pens from Amazon for $9.99.  Next I used black Higgins ink and a #8 round brush to paint her and the crazy background.  Photo courtesy WetCanvas weekend drawing event, host Harry Hamlin, UK.  In this 2 hour timed event participants must select an image then execute it or photograph what they got done at the time mark.  This one took me one hour.
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Making Music New Orleans Style

18x24 watercolor on Canson Montval 140 lb cold press block with American Journey, DaVinci, and Daniel Smith paints. A step by step work in progress is being posted over on the group blog Art Colony if anyone would like to see how I start and finish a direct painting style watermedia.