You can run, but…

 

Self Portrait

I love the self-mixed turquoise  background painted with a one inch brush.  The only problem is that the digital copy makes my eyes look blue, but they are hazel.  All-in-all, it’s a good likeness.

 

 

Night Scene

Another Illustration wc drawing.  Textured sky, shading in eaves, window top, moon reflection in negative space, artistic license in right side of roof.

Desert Landscape

Here’s another watercolor painting.  A gradated sky wash and non-gradated foreground wash.

Stipple, not Pointillion

Stipple is using only one color (plus the white of the paper as negative), black in this case. Here is a project done for an Illustration class.  It seems like a lot of work, until you get near the end and the person seems to come to life from the details.  I used an 05 Micron technical pen for most of the dots, on Strathmore Bristol vellum paper. You have to tear the page out of the pad and put it on a hard surface.  With a bunch of artists in the same room, it sounds like a machine gun battle.

If you have an itch, …

Amelia

My first illustration.

 

 

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