This month’s Dr. Sketchy’s Philly session was exceptionally fun. The model, D’Arcy D’Lux, really knew how to put on a show.
D’Arcy D’Lux
July 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm (Sketches)
Tags: art, artist, body, bra, burlesque, cafe, circus, color, d'arcy. d'lux, doctor, dr. sketchy, drawing, dress, drink, entertain, event, face, fun, gesture, ink, life, live, original, paper, pen, pencil, perform, Philadelphia, philly, quick, show, sketchy's, tourism, travel, watercolor, world
Hello November
November 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm (colored pencil, mixed media, Sketchbook Saturday!, Sketches)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, black, book, calculator, color, deep, draw, drawing, green, hatch, ink, jen, life, light, line, marker, november, pen, pencil, purse, saturday, shadow, skecth, stapler, still, white
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and somehow I have not managed to update my blog yet this month. I am sorry. Here is a page from my sketchbook to break my artistic silence.
Featured above is my purse, a stapler, and a calculator depicted in pen, marker, and colored pencil. Sketchbook Saturday lives!
Also, I’ve recently revamped my Etsy shop for the upcoming holiday season. For the first time I am selling prints of my plein air paintings. Take a look.
Three Years of Collingswood
August 16, 2010 at 5:32 pm (art news, pencil, pencil on paper, watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, arts, ashmen, beautiful, brick, building, center, church, collingswood, competition, contest, door, ink, interior, jen, life, NJ, paint, painter, painting, patco, pencil, perkins, rendering, sky, station, ticket, train, tree, turn, watercolor, window, yellow
Every August, Perkins Center for the Arts hosts a rendering contest. A building in Collingswood, NJ is chosen to be drawn. This is the third year I’ve participated in the competition. I am very thankful for this yearly opportunity to publicly paint with other artists in the area.
The first year (2008), I made this painting of a church on Haddon Avenue. Last year, the chosen building was the Collingswood PATCO station. My pencil rendering of its interior received second place.
Tickets, Please. Graphite on paper. 9″x12.”
Framed and ready to hang: $175.00
This year’s building was the Perkins Center for the Arts. I chose to work in the watercolor and ink pen style I’ve been experimenting with all summer. Yesterday, my piece won first place in the painting category.
Perky. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. 8.5″ x5.”
SOLD
Click to enlarge image.
Lamp at the Old Apartment
July 27, 2009 at 4:29 pm (pencil on paper)
Tags: apartment, art, artist, bedroom, closet, draw, drawing, dresser, eight ball, graphite, lamp, life, light, lighting, paper, pencil, picture, shade, smudge, stuff
Graphite on paper.
Such a little room meant so much. I wonder what it is doing now.
Little Red Riding Hood
July 19, 2009 at 2:43 pm (pencil on paper)
Tags: Anne, art, artist, copy, Dean's, draw, drawing, fairytale, Grahame Johnstone, graphite, illustrate, illustration, illustrator, Janet, life, little red, paper, pencil, riding hood, study, wolf, yellow
I am in the process of copying the works of Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone. Before I move on to watercolors, I am studying some of their images in pencil. This helps me get a feel for the illustrations. The following image is from Dean’s Book of Fairy Tales, illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone:
Here is my graphite study of the above illustration:
Unfortunately, the two drawings are not the same. The skull is more evident in my copy. Also, the weight distribution is more natural in the original. Over the next few weeks, I hope less of my style shows through when copying their gorgeous depictions.
Kryptonite
April 28, 2009 at 12:45 pm (pencil on paper)
Tags: art, artist, drawing, eyes, graphite, hair, life, lips, me, notebook, paper, pencil, portrait, self portrait, shirt, sketchbook
Self portraits have never been my forte. Here’s a quick one I drew yesterday.
Graphite Drawing
December 24, 2008 at 3:21 pm (pencil, pencil on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, background, black, bowl, dark, draw, drawing, eraser, fabric, flower, graphite, jen, lily, orchid, paper, pencil, shadow, table, urn, vase, white
This is a still life done in graphite pencil on an 18″x24″ piece of paper.
I have so much to show you!
August 18, 2008 at 5:21 pm (pencil on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ballerina, ballet, bomb, burlesque, cherry, corset, dance, draw, drawing, girl, graphite, hair, life, painter, paper, pencil, portrait, pretty, profile, shoes, tutu, woman
Sunday of the Past
June 29, 2008 at 3:52 pm (pencil)
Tags: art, artist, bicycle, bottle, bust, cloth, drawing, fabric, graphite, grey scale, old, painter, paper, pencil, shadow, sketch, small, still life, study, surreal, victory, wheel