Friday, June 18, 2010

Girl Talk - French cafe scene WIP

12x18 inches WIP (work in progress) on Bienfang paper with charcoal, grey and black Tombow brush pens, 6B drawing pencil, carpenter's pencil to draw and used water to blend. Photo courtesy of Robert S.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Lollipops

15x22 mixed media collage using tissue paper, giftwrap from the dollar store, acrylics, fluid acrylic inks, pastels, crayon, markers, and black gutta bottle to make stems. All this on the backside of a failed watercolor too awful to show. Stamping done with fluorescent acrylics and bubble wrap along with bottle caps, round brass ring, and jar bottoms.

Instructions on how to do this type art can be found in May/June issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine.

Life Drawing in St. Ives

Drawn and painted from life in about 10 minutes at the Tate Gallery painting school in Cornwall a few weeks ago. Paper is handmade purchased there, A4 size (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), American Journey paints.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

St. Ives Painting School, Cornwall UK

Here I am on 29 May at the Tate Gallery painting school in St. Ives, Cornwall. We were getting ready to do life drawing/painting with a lovely model for several hours. What a fantastic experience to do art right on the coast of England! I'm in front of a large upper story north light window.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Neiman

15x11 watercolor of Mollie's kitty named Neiman after the famous ritzy Dallas store. Neiman is very gorgeous and she knows it! This calico has cat-titude!

Monday, June 7, 2010

Abilene Antiques Store Chair w/ Quilt

15x11 watercolor of an old seatless white wicker chair holding a handmade quilt on the antique store porch. In this Abilene, TX shop it was like stepping back in time and I could imagine the old black proprietress sewing the quilt or perhaps sitting in the chair.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Rodeo Queen

20x16 acrylics on paper done mid July, another in my cowgirl series that are always fun to paint. Remembering the times participating in ro...