This gallery contains 1 photo.
“Charming”
01 Tuesday Jan 2013
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Category Archives: Fine art
“Brer Rabbit Nibbles up all the Butter”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
animals, Brer Rabbit, characters, children, expressionistic drawing, graphite, illustration, pencil, stories, story art, text in art
Part three of the Brer Rabbit triptych. This also has the story written into the background for texture and to spark the viewer’s curiosity about the old stories. Many we have heard since childhood, like the story of the Tar Baby, but seldom do we hear about the original, old stories that didn’t become so popular. Perhaps they remained obscure for good reasons, many of them were too gruesome to be children’s stories.
“Brer Fox Catches the Saddle Horse”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
animals, Brer Rabbit, character, graphite, illustration, loose drawing, pencil, series, story art, text as texture, text in art, writing
This is piece two of the Brer Rabbit series which was created for my senior show. I also has the abridged story scribbled into the background as texture. Like a puzzle you can read the whole story, if you can find it. Or better yet, just find it at the library and read it.
“Brer Rabbit Fools Sis Cow”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
animal characture, animals, book illustration, Brer Rabbit, caricature drawings, cartoon, drawing, graphite, letter background, pencil, story art, words incorporated into art
This is part one of a three part series I drew for my senior show at college. The background texture is made up of gestural marks mixed with the words taken from the story ‘Brer Rabbit fools Sis Cow”
“The Man with the Alpaca Felt Hat”
28 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
colored pencil, colorful art, expressionistic, mixed media, old man portrait, painting, person, portrait, sketch, water color
This was a voluntary portrait of a friend. The picture was taken the first day we met and he was sporting one of his wife’s hand-made alpaca hats. He looked so frail and yet his personality was so colorful, that I just had to try to capture that in this watercolor / colored pencil sketch.
Not my Will, But….
21 Saturday Jul 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
2012 art, Gethsemane, graphite, Jesus, multimedia, painting, perspective art, prayer, religious art, water color
This painting was created this year in April. It is water color and graphite, with acrylic accents. I wanted to depict what it was like for Jesus in that moment of decision in the garden of Gethsemane when he had to choose God’s will or his own. It struck me how real it is that Christ actually shared in our temptations, just like the Bible claims and he never asks us to do anything he didn’t do first!
Turtle Race
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
acrylic, animal, art, festival, fun painting, large painting, painting, reptile, turtles
Sold Recently!
“Tractor Jewel”
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
abstract realism, acrylic, farm art, medium size painting, photo realism, prints, realism, rural themed, tractor art, tractor painting, unique perspective
Can you figure out what this picture is of? That’s half the fun!
This is a painting of the underside of an Oliver tractor. The sediment jar (which is full of diesel fuel) is back- lit with the sun and round bales sit in the background. (Prints available)
“Holstein Calf”
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
acrylic, affordable painting, canvas, cows, farm art, farm painting, glaze painting technique, holstein calf painting, inexpensive painting, large painitng, stretched canvas
This serene painting was done as an assignment for a college project where we had to go out to a location and draw a live subject, mapping out the value and color scale on our sketch and then bringing it back to the studio to paint without photo references. It was a challenge for me.
“Puppy Breath”
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Fine art
≈ Comments Off
Tags
acrylic, animals, collage, dachshund puppy painting, dachshunds, large art, multimedia, news paper collage, puppies, puppies painted on news paper, puppy painting, sleeping puppies
This painting was indirectly inspired by Picasso, who used bits of magazines and news papers in his collage pieces. Since I prefer realism, I decided to use that technique in a multimedia piece featuring a subject I knew – puppies. What better to accompany news paper, than puppies? As for the arrangement, I wanted to capture the way that puppies sleep in a pile fitting into each other like puzzle pieces. It made an excellent bedroom decoration.
