New Grouping of Boxes

Started another grouping of my Ocean Life boxes on 5x5" Ampersand Claybord boxes. I have sold several of the last series of boxes and decided to create another series of boxes. Shown here are seven new cover drawings and three new inside drawings. All of the cover drawings are worked on white Stonehenge paper with image transfer and colored pencil. I adhere them to the Claybord surface of the

Category › Ampersand Clayboard , colored pencil , Golden Polymer Varnish with UVLS , Grafix , image transfer , Krylon Kamar Varnish , krylon UV Resistant Clear , Stonehenge drawing paper , Strathmore Rag Illustration Board

Experiments with Colored Pencil and Varnish

This photo is a cropped portion of a 12x16" colored pencil and pastel drawing I did several years ago. In fact it was accepted into and shown at the 2007 CPSA Explore This! Exhibition in Brea, CA (before Explore This! exhibitions became on-line only). I did the drawing is on black Stonehenge paper with colored pencil and bumped up the vibrant colors with pastel on top. The drawing looked so

Category › Ampersand Clayboard , Golden Polymer Varnish with UVLS , Grafix , Krylon Kamar Varnish , Stonehenge drawing paper

Orchid Drawing is Complete

Since my last post of this drawing, I decided on a blue background which is mostly Prismacolor Blue Violet Lake and the surface is Prismacolor Gingeroot. I chose the cool blues and cool greens in the leaves to make the flowers pop. When the background was complete and I worked on the pot, I then returned to the flowers and punched them up with more color. I particularly worked on the three

Category › Ampersand Gessobord , Krylon Kamar Varnish , Lascaux Fixative , Prismacolor