Update!

"In the Shadow of the Diva"  just won 1st Place in the Annual Winter Juried Show of the Creative Art Connection in Bossier City, La.

Done!

"In the Shadow of the Diva"

approx 5 x 8 

colored pencil on Canson Mi-Teintes

"Mystic"

colored pencil and ink on 11x14 Stonehenge

Almost done...

"MYSTIC"  - almost.....

Another WIP Update

The colors are all wrong in this one, much too dark and with a greenish tint. All it is really good for is to show the progress, and at this point I am not sure I like it. But am I not going through this with everything I do?










"Mystic"

WIP Updates

I ended up working on both drawings this week. I am having so much fun with that. My right brain is working overtime and loving it!














The dahlia is turning out to be more of a challenge than I anticipated. I keep loosing my place in the petals and had to make a few corrections along the way.






The dahlia looks bigger than what it is, about an 8 in x 5 in drawing, where the other one is 14 in x 17 in.

Four WIPs

These are four projects currently in the works. The first one has been in progress for a while and I just can't go any further with it at this time. Sometimes my energy for a particular piece suddenly vanishes and I will have to come back to it later. It is an acrylic and that might have something to do with the creative block.

 It's designed to be hung in a local bakery. It wouldn't take much to finish it, but I just can't get the push it would take to work on this. Acrylic on board.

This is the one I am actively working on at the moment. The title is "In the Shadow of the Diva", a picture I took of a dahlia in my sister's garden. Colored Pencil on Canson Mi-Teintes.

This is another piece in my "dream series". The working title, which might change, is "Mystic". It is Ink and Colored Pencil on Bristol Vellum.

Yes, I am still working on this also. Another one on the back burner for a while until the Muse hits me again.

When it rains...

I have three things going at the same time and made a few entries in my art journal this morning for more ideas. Now all I need is time!

Exciting News

Today I won 1st and 2nd Place in the Graphics Category of the Creative Art Connection's Fall Show which hangs at the Bossier Central Library through the month of October.

Finished two workshop pieces...

These two pieces are from a Linda Hardy workshop and I finally finished them. The the pink geranium is drawn on Canson Mi-Teintes with colored pencils (of course! :) and the purple tulips are on Uarte 800 grid sanded paper, which was a new experience for me. So far it's a love/hate relationship with the sanded paper. It does eat up your pencils a lot faster (which is not the reason I don't like it). Actually I don't know why I don't like it and will have to do more pieces before I can make up my mind about it.

The Next Stage