Self Portrait

White-out on Black Paper
 

As a promo for the Ephemera Group Show at the Philadelphia Library Company in Center City Philadelphia we creative participants were asked to create our own silhouette. 

Ephemera Exhibit - Progress Shot

A sneak peek at one of my submissions to be completed for the Group show in conjunction to the current Library Company of Philadelphia exhibition.

  More information here: Library Company Blog

Plus, a painting inspired by this Printing promo has just been started. More to come! 

Metamorphosis

2 pages of thumbnail sketches

Finish sketch and tonal study

Unused Lead pencil drawing and digital coloring

Left image: A color experiment

Right image: The actual digital layer of the 

coloring of the dragonfly below

Finished art

Left image: The original white pencil on black paper drawing

Right image: My new business card

 

 

 

My new business card, when folded, is the size of the standard business card.
But, also hints at flapping of wings when opened and closed.

Floating Near Optimism

White Chalk on Black Paper

Color Version (Photoshop)

Recent Drawings

Clipped!

In Progress...

While the new canvases continue to receive their multiple coats of primer. I have been spending my free time drawing this sculpture of a angel recently given to me as a possible inspiration for a drawing.

Figure Drawing

This drawing is the result of a rare opportunity to be able to work with a male model.

White Pencil/Black Paper Drawing

Sketch Book Page

Philadelphia Sketch Club Drawings

Here are two drawings recently done at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Each drawing was done during a three-hour drawing session. At the beginning of the session, everyone sketches 5 different poses are performed at 4 minutes each. One pose is chosen after this 20 minute period. Then the model repeats the chosen pose for about 3 hours -- twenty minutes in pose with ten minute breaks in between. The ten minute breaks are just as important a time for me to draw; it is during this time that I can clean up or refine the section I had just drawn it.
As I begin these drawings, I am trying to see what I don't have to draw. Not drawing in such things like the tall candle stick, the woman's hair, or the man's shoulder in a shadow on his right side creates a more dramatic effect. Plus, it's make it easier to complete the drawing within the three hours. Both reasons are equally important!