This is a sketch that I started in the Te Papa museum in New Zealand. I like these little messy sketches, though this one loses something on being blown up so large.

 

 

I think I did this painting my senior year of high school. While I loved the two dancers, I hated the background and lacked the skill to finish the foreground. It remains a favorite of mine though, even in it’s rough state. Someday I’d like to redo it in oil.

Acrylic on canvas board

Lynn told me to bring my painting stuff to church last Sunday. So I brought my watercolours and did this during the service. There is a lot going on here… I’d love to hear some outside thoughts before I explain it, though.

Watercolour on cold press paper

Coloured pencil and ink.

A product of too much time and not enough to think about in my Senior art class. Add to that a love of designing fancy dresses and you have the above sketch.

Pencil in a sketchbook

 

The colour on this is really poor, it looks better in my moleskine. I think this was actually the first drawing done in colour on that kind of paper. It took me about an hour and I got a huge kick out of doing it.

Some who look at this see an alien, some a woman in a mask…

Coloured pencil and ink on moleskine

 

 

I have a thing for tattoos. Not neccesarily in real life, but in sketches. A normal study is immensely more fun when you add some funky “tats”. This was something I did in the photo lab my freshman year of college. There’s a lot of hurry up and wait around there, as I recall.

Ink on paper

I found a really nifty piece of paper at work a couple of days ago and kept myself entertained with a little sketch. While drawing this I was simultaneously learning to play chess (which I remain horribly bad at…)

Pen and ink on ‘fancy paper’

 

This was the first moleskine entry where I used my coloured pencils… That might be a lie. It might have been the second. Anyway, I discovered that my Prismacolor coloured pencils do wonderful things with the paper in the Moleskine. They blend really nicely. Someday I’ll get better scans/pictures of these and you can see how nice the colour is. The quote is from a PBS special where they interviewed artists.

 

This is one of the [many] sketches that I did last year in the Tauranga House of Prayer. To be fair, it was done during a class and not an intercession set, and I think better when I’m drawing. I wanted to see if I could draw a realistic human figure made entirely of tiny horizontal lines. It took me about three hours in total.