My new people project

I have been working on my skills in drawing people. I have set out to draw one person most every night. I have almost two sketchbooks filled now. I have seen how much it has helped me overall to practice every day. We tell our children to practice piano, sports, or dance all the time I guess I finally took my own advice and wa-la it works!

Anyway, because of this my confidence is much higher when it comes to drawing people. Good thing too because my last client asked me to paint a whole line of people from the 1940's time period on the wall of his theater room. They had the idea of them being the paparazzi standing behind the rope taking pictures of the stars. The stars being those in the room watching the movie. Then they decide to include themselves into the mural also. So I spent 5 days painting in a tone on tone style. I had a great time doing this project. Perhaps I will charge more though next time.

A fun new project

 

I was recently commissioned to create a coat of arms for a client. We used some elements of their own coat of arms and some of my ideas on design. We wanted to use some old wood that would make it interesting and have an old appearance. I went in search of some old wood and found some tongue and grove cypress that was 150 yrs old. It has beetle holes in it and overall just looked great for this project. I had fun putting it all together and the end project is 3 inches thick and 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide. After painting and aging it I waxed it.