Hand Study Enhanced 10 Apr 2013 | 06:40 pm

After staring at that hand study for over a week, I decided to add to it and make it more of a finished piece. As I was adding the water to the orange Neocolors in the background, I noticed the black...

Hand Study 5 Apr 2013 | 12:35 am

Crosshatching in Pen

All About Texture - After 27 Mar 2013 | 07:35 pm

This is a project I did with my Advanced Art II class. They were to take random items that I had collected from the dollar store and garage sales and create a non-objective composition focusing on te...

All About Texture 19 Mar 2013 | 06:17 pm

Before...

Back Shading 10 Oct 2012 | 12:59 am

I am trying to get my students to understand what back shading is (well, at least that's what I call it. Is there another official word for it?) So while this is not EXACTLY what they were to do for ...

Stamp Making 22 Sep 2012 | 12:55 am

I'm currently teaching my advanced class how to make stamps. We are making square designs that can be rotated to create larger designs, but I had a long strip of the speedy cut left over and thought ...

Tall 31 Aug 2012 | 07:36 am

The topic for the week on Illustration Friday was "tall". I don't have a lot of experience with this word as I am only 4'11". However some of my best friends are 6' and my husband is 6'1". So this ...

A new painting cont (& IF: Lost) 28 Jul 2012 | 11:41 pm

Here are the remaining steps: Step 5. I seem to have either deleted the photos or didn't take any between step four and five because I made quite a few adjustments. We have a reddish brown leather co...

A new painting 27 Jul 2012 | 10:51 am

I got inspired at church to create a painting for our mantle. There were lots of steps so I'll be breaking it down into a few posts. They are all in acrylic paint. Step 1. I started with gessoing an...

IF: carry 23 Jul 2012 | 10:07 am