Card Player

This is a family friend that I have painted often. He photographs well. When I captured this image he was playing spades with the family. I did this drawing yesterday while hanging out in my gallery space during the West Austin Studio tour.

Cousin Drawing

Recently my family reached out to our family in the Sulfur Springs, Texas area. We have had reunions, holidays and just plain fun this year. I, being the artist get an entirely new group of people to paint and photograph. Plus it adds to my family series. I have painted Laroyce quite a few times. He is one of my cousins. I wonder if we were friends as kids. I find him to be funny plus he cooks good. He makes a great painting like all of my family.

The Lean Drawing

I am revisiting these images of Northern California in another medium. This series (the first was in pastel)will be watercolor. I loved the greens, sunlight and shadows in the photo. I worked on toned tan paper.

Snowflake Drawing

The study for the painting of my brother's dog that I posted previously. I like the drawing more than the actual painting. Snowflake was trying to get someone to throw one of his chew toys.

Loyal

My first attempt at painting my brother's dog Snowflake.

Trying 1

Yesterday afternoon I sat and sketched while watching a little bit of the Maloof Trial. He is accused of stealing about 1.8 million in Federal stimulus money. His alleged scam was that he was going to build windmills for green energy. The trial is slated to last three weeks. I sat in the back to get some of the audience in the sketch.

Some of the jurors.

Drawing Modern Childsplay

These two are clearly enthralled by a smart phone. Its amazing the amount of attention we give our phones. I try not to carry mine everywhere. In the actual photo a little blue from the screen was reflected on their skin.

Drawing Floating Neighbors

This drawing is not associated with the current painting by the same name. I must have the title on my brain again. This is a scene from the El Granada Pier. I think the first painting will be in watercolor. Its the medium I am into lately.

Bale Drawing

Another exploratory drawing for a few landscape paintings. I like to draw a scene multiple times before getting to a painting. It helps with the values, composition etc. This is another scene from the Sulfur Springs highway in Northeast Texas.

Current Drawing In Progress

I'm currently working on this drawing. Its inspired by a young lady blowing bubbles at a recent family event. It was hard to photograph the bubbles they were blowing but that wont stop me from adding them to the final paintings.