Sunday, March 19, 2023

Blueberries

 Pretty happy with this one. Fixed with my homemade recipe,




Guardian of the Lake

 Guardian of the lake, had some trouble with the composition on this one but it turned out ok.


Saturday, February 25, 2023

Pastel ocean work.

 Finished another test piece working with my soft pastels. Doing a lot of experimenting figuring out my flow and techniques. This is Rembrandt sticks and Stabilo CarbOthello pencils done on gesso treated cold pressed watercolor paper. I was quite satisfied with the paper and the grit the gesso provided. It gave me all the layers I needed for the pastel and was much cheaper than the most often mentioned and used pastel papers. I have also had good results with Caston paper treated with gesso.

Painting after fixative. I use a homemade gelatin based fixative. I had some black ink in the under painting that came out a little darker than I planned but I’m still happy with it.




Table view showing border without fixative.

Easil view



Monday, February 20, 2023

Digital art dump

 Just posting a bunch of my previously made digital art in one huge lump just to have a record of me creating it. I had it on DeviantArt but with their AI stance as of late and creating their own ai generator, I decided to delete my DeviantArt account. So here it is here, I'll add titles and descriptions later.





































Sunday, February 19, 2023

Old Traditional Art Dump

 Catching my blog up with a huge dump of traditional art. This is some of my more favorite pieces that I have done over the last 20 years. Some recent many very old. Wanted to have them on the blog for record since after deleting my DeviantArt account.


 






















 

Blueberries

 Pretty happy with this one. Fixed with my homemade recipe,