Pet Portrait of Frasier

This post is going to have everyone thinking of the holidays and it's much to early for that however here is a pet portrait I just finished of a cute little West Highland Terrier named Frasier. The drawing is 11x14" done in colored pencil on charcoal gray Canson Mi Tientes paper. It is exactly the pose my customer wanted, she also chose the winter or holiday themed scarf and wanted pine trees

Category › Canson Mi Teintes Paper , commission work , pet portrait

CPSA Silent Auction Piece

This is the colored pencil drawing titled "Flying Away" that I created for the CPSA silent auction which is held during the annual exhibition and convention August 1-4, 2012 in Covington, KY. I worked the drawing on felt gray Canson Mi Tientes paper, although it probably didn't matter what color I used because I covered every little bit with pencil. I used the Icarus Board to help me blend and

Category › Ampersand Clayboard , Canson Mi Teintes Paper , Golden Polymer Varnish with UVLS , Icarus Drawing Board , Prismacolor

Brown Bag Drawings

My Tuesday morning class requested a lesson in drawing paper lunch bags. I gave them each a piece of  Amber colored Canson Mi Tientes paper which we used as the medium or base color. In attempt to simplify, we lit each bag with desk lamp so the lights and darks would be more pronounced. Everyone started working in the values with two colors, Prismacolor Cream for the lightest areas and

Category › Canson Mi Teintes Paper , colored pencil students , Prismacolor

A Bowl of Oranges

My mother or my grandmother had this sweet little bowl that I found and decided I wanted to draw as a small still life. I filled it with tangerines and set it up against a white surface and background. I decided to work on orange Canson Mi Teintes paper so I could get the orange glow to show through the whole drawing and give a warm color harmony to the drawing. The finished size is 7 1/2" x 8 1/

Category › Canson Mi Teintes Paper , still life

Three Shiny Apples

I have been asked to create a small colored pencil artwork for the CPSA silent auction fundraiser called "Small Works of Great Magnitude". The silent auction is held during the national convention week and exhibition which is in Dallas, TX July 12-16. The silent auction takes place during the Members' Night on Thursday, July 14 and is to benefit CPSA's exhibition costs. All of the works will be

Category › candy apple , Canson Mi Teintes Paper , Lyra Rembrandt , Prismacolor

Tuesday Colored Pencil Classes

These are photos of some of my morning and evening students colored pencil work. I brought in several New Guinea Impatiens plants in red, pink and white and each person chose a plant and chose a portion of the plant to focus on and draw. The morning class worked on Raspberry Canson Mi Teintes paper and the evening class worked on Violet Canson Mi Teintes because I couldn't find any more of the

Category › Canson Mi Teintes Paper