Art...............

 Art Day Whatever......

As you can tell, I'm not very good at regular posting. I decided to put more pics up at a time. Here are many of my watercolors. Above is a really washed over misting scene. Supposedly with a building on the horizon. Two people struggle through the rain.

 The purpose of the next work was for testing various depths of blue. I also used a rubber based material to create that white beach line. The rubber guards the original paper color, and is then rubbed off when dry.

 My first watercolor ever.... "Exploding Rainbow" was a abstract flop when I was twelve.

 This work was to highlight detail, and to attempt a 3D branch system.

 "Prickly Pears," a bit disjointed with the mountains is of a family picture from a vacation.
Tried to get distance and 3D-ness. (Like tree-branch above)

 "Reflection" is probably my best watercolor to date. It's purpose can be seen in its name.

"The Light" is not accenting the lighthouse, as can be assumed from the centerpiece, but instead the sunset in the back. hence the lighthouses plain black silhouette.

Good songs..... :)

Art Day 21

 So..... art day 21: "Tatonka"

I like to use this name after the native american word for bison as in "Dances with Wolves," a favorite movie of mine. These two works are of the same picture. I used a tracing of the pencil sketch as an outline for the watercolor. This was my first watercolor picture, and it turned out quite well.

The pencil was a little out of shape, so I redefined it for the painting.

Art Day 20

 Art Day 20: Little Girls Point

 

These two pictures are of the same place, as hopefully you noticed. I wanted to play around with different materials and their effects. The above picture is just charcoal, but the bottom has three different types of tape, markers, crayons, pens, pencils, and colored pencils.

The scotch tape is actually overlaying the bright blue maker, creating a richer, waterier look. It also blended the water and shore colors to make a beach effect. 

 Continuing with the effects of tape, this piece, done of an opened leatherman pocket knife, is done entirely in tape. I used the different colors to define edges and shadows, and also to show important elements, such as the hing joint of the scissors.

 This work also used tape, but only as a framework. The subject remained in blue ball-point pen.

Ball-point pen creates a good sheen for a metallic drawing, because it isn't as intense as pen and ink. More penknives above.

Art day 19

 Some random portraits I've drawn. Nothing special. Above is General MacIvor.

 Next is Michael Phelps, world-class swimmer and probably one of the most famous athletes ever.

 An unfinished portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, showing how non-professional my drawing is. (I don't follow normal methods).

Last is Elvis. Decent, plain portrait. Chin a bit too prominent.

Art day 18

 Art day 18a: King's Balcony

The picture above was done in a mixture of charcoal and pencil. I was trying to capture distance and perspective from height. The distance perspective worked, but not up close!

18b: Pen and Ink

This simple sketch is done pencil, not pen and ink, as the title might suggest. I actually took the picture from a book cover of mine titled From Hawthorne to Hemmingway. (It is a book of American author's short stories. I was trying to capture the reflective properties of the metal ink nib and handle and with the light dimensions of crumpled paper.

Favorite Christmas Songs this Season

Happy New Year!..... and Art Day 17

Hi Everybody!

I hope the Christmas and New Years parties were fun and exciting.
My family came around and we played board games for pretty much 3 days straight. Ate amazing food! (My mom is an amazing cook: my favorite was Christmas Dinner-- Beef Wellington)

Our Annual New Year's Eve party was awesome, of course. I won a game of risk that lasted until 9 a.m.
(Not as nerdy as it sounds, hahaha)

Anyways, if anybody reads this, sorry I didn't post the regular art days, but I hope you understand.

Art Day 17: Hand-ology
[ology means "study of" ]

After drawing so much of on material, portraits, and so specific a subject, Civil War Generals, I decided to go back to the basics. Because I had no formal drawing class,  I didn't really know where to start. I eventually decided on the hand as being an excellent subject because of the infinite positions, angles, and shadows. (The set above was actually drawn on the back of church offering envelopes during Community Bible Study lectures, along with a random shoe)

The below picture was a sketch of my own hand in the most finger-twisted open position I could come up with.

 Next I decided to move farther up the arm, trying to capture the muscles and miniscule skin definitions from veins and such. Picture below is titled "Grip."