Halloween Painting

Here is the Drawing I did for the Halloween piece. After working on the figure I decided to work on the background by completely making it up and drawing a Crow I found on Google Images. So the finished piece won't have this background but I was up late in a hotel room with nothing to do but draw when I did this. And that's ok, I enjoyed it a lot. It's hard to get time like that. I drew this from a print out I took with me. In the print out you could not see the whites of her eyes like you could on the computer screen. For the purposes of Halloween, I decided I liked this look better.

Bookmarks

I just added these two images as Bookmarks on my Etsy page. They are based on my paintings, "A Day in the Woods" and "In the Land of Anglin". You can see them here http://www.etsy.com/shop/cliffsart?ref=seller_info

New Drawings

Hi folks!!! I've been working on a bunch of drawings this week for upcoming paintings. Drawing is a muscle that needs flexing and I lose it a bit when I just paint, so this past week had been lots of practice drawing magazine adds, comics book pictures, my feet, hands, just what ever I find and then working on the modeled scenes for paintings. I don't want to show them all at once so here are two. The bottom one isn't done yet but here is what I have so far. I'm also getting ready for a Halloween painting I have to get done for a show real fast. That will be in Harrodsburg.  I'll post more aboot it later.

Inspiration_Thomas Mcknight

I'm doing some things this week and I can't post the drawings I"ve been working on , but I got some good ones. Two of which will be used for a Halloween show I hope to get it to, so stay tuned. So for now I want to show an artist that really inspired me in the late 90's. I worked a Paper route (Don't do it, trust me) before class and afterward I'd eat at the McDonald's on Richmond road and eat breakfast. They have these prints of Thomas Mcknight and I just love them. Well, sadly now they are faded. I used to want them badly though. His kind of art is not what I want to do, but the kind I want to buy. I love to look at what he does. He learned his style while living in Greece when he was young and it worked for him. A few years ago though he was sued by a gallery for a million dollars. I think he won, but I thought,"Wow, he's worth enough to even be sued for a million"?! Oddly, even that inspired me. http://thomasmcknight.com/

The Box

You can see now what I had in mind with this jewelry box. I added the actual art work, Sundown in the Fields, just to get a good idea of the image that the other pics may not convey. The original piece is a Color Pencil piece that I'm rather proud of. I wanted to make a piece that had a really good portrait of my friend Britney. And I was also really happy with my Shaker town background. I made this really awesome frame only to discover, after 2 weeks of working on it, the frame was too small-both up and down! So while I'm waiting for time to build another really good frame, here is this. I'll put it on Etsy here soon. I still want to do a few things to it. Maybe line the inside with fancy paper!

Another jewlery box

Here some pictures of another jewelry box I'm working on. It's the kind you can put a photo in so I'm going to put in a picture of one of my favorite paintings. But first I had to fancy it up a little bit, it came really plain. So this is some steps of me doing that. I also threw in a pic of Alex, the starving cat we took in. Skinny, but no longer starving.

Gray's Arch 3!!!

I worked on this over Friday and Saturday, I just didn't have time to take the pic off my camera. I thought a pure landscape is long over due, and I really like Gray's Arch in the Red River Gorge so I did at least my third painting of it. The other two sold, so this is been a good spot for me to paint. I'm still working on the jewelry box, but I'm struggling with that a bit so I decided to do something else and re group. I'll talk more aboot that when I post it. Have fun!