Woman with Halo – 21 December 2011

Woman with Halo - 21 December 2011, India ink and watercolor on paper, about 6"x8"

Woman – 7 November 2011

Woman - 7 November 2011, India ink and watercolor on paper, about 4"x10"

Man – 14 August 2011

Man - 14 August 2011, India ink and watercolor on paper, 7"x10"

Woman – 29 January 2011

Woman - 29 January 2011, India ink and watercolor on paper, about 6"x9"

Man – 4 June 2011

Man - 4 June 2011, India ink and watercolor on paper, 6"x9"

Woman – 22 October 2010

Woman 22 October 2010 - watercolor and India ink on paper, about 5"x8"

Man – 4 August 2009

 

Man, 4 August 2009, India ink and watercolor on paper, about 6"x9"

Here’s a piece I did fairly quickly. I liked the energy in the lines of the drawing and the initial washes (with some nice strong oranges in the left side,) so I didn’t do so much watercolor that it became opaque. I dropped in a very dark deep blue background, and the outline of the head disappeared (because there was no value contrast between the dark brown hair and the dark blue background.) So, I used water and a napkin to soak up some of the background blue, lightening it. Though I liked that effect (it gives a sort of mottled texture which you can see still in the blue background,) there still wasn’t enough contrast, so I added the halo.

Man 5 August 2006

Man 5 August 2006

This one took me a long time to finish.  Like the woman in front of the brick wall, the initial drawing was just the figure, which wasn’t entirely compelling on his own, so I dropped the city in behind him.  I think that this piece is fairly successful.  I like the naive perspective – the buildings pertain more to him than to a coherent whole.  I think that the primary color scheme works well.

Woman 23 August 2008

Woman 23 August 2008

I don’t plan to do extensive commentary about the art I post here. I will try to mostly let the art speak for itself.

For this one, I will say that I drew and painted her, with no back ground, just the halo and the line at the bottom, with some gray background close to her, and it didn’t quite work. So I added the bricks behind her. I inked in the bricks and realized that the rough proportion of them is more the shape of a brick from the top and not from the side… which is ok. I like my mistakes.