Breeze - New Image & Prints

With warmer weather comes the simple pleasures of sun on your face and the wind in your hair. Perfection.

Ink on watercolor paper, with an oh-so-slight color adjustment in Photoshop.

Prints of this painting are available right here.

Watercolor Sketches

I was cleaning out old papers and artwork today and I came across some quick watercolor samples that I'd done for the children's art classes that I taught last summer. Since they're a little different from what I've been posting here, I thought they might be fun to share.


The kids liked this project a lot, and it was easy to do. You just paint on the paper, going a bit heavy on the water, and then you blow the paint and water around on the paper with a plastic straw. You can get some really neat effects that way.


Nothing too terribly exciting, just a quick watercolor sketch of the boats in the harbor. I had taken the kids over by the docks to do some outdoors painting and drawing.


This is actually ink and not watercolor. I use ink painting a lot with the pictures that I make, and I thought the kids might want to try painting with it as well. Just a simple alternative to watercolors. One of the kids wanted me to paint a pirate ship, but the paper was a little too wet so the pirate ship is a bit on the blurry side.

Lady's Profile - Sketch

Just a sketch done while I was watching a movie tonight. I like drawing profiles.

Shipwrecked - In Progress Part 2

Well, I haven't gotten much farther on the Shipwrecked picture, but at least the color scheme is worked out and the composition is fixed. It's moving a little slower than I had planned, but it'll get done eventually.

Shipwrecked - In Progress

This is my newest picture that I'm working on, inspired by some stock photography by AilinStock on deviantArt. They've given me permission to do an illustration based on one of their sailor/pirate themed photos, so a big thank you to them! And you know me, I love piratey stories and pictures. Howard Pyle is definitely also an influence here.

Anyhow, this image is measuring about 20"x24" in Photoshop but will probably end up being wider than that. I drew it in brown pencil on watercolor paper, painted over it with watered down ink, scanned it into the computer, and now I've started doing to the digital painting with my tablet and Photoshop. As you can see, I only have the very basic colors painted in at the moment, but it gives you an idea of the atmosphere that I'm going for.

In other news, this sketch blog now has a syndicated feed on LiveJournal, so if you're on LJ feel free to add this sketch blog to your friends list to stay updated. :)

The Frog Prince - New Image & Prints

First impressions are very important. ;)

I've invested more time in this picture than probably any other picture that I've ever worked on. I really wanted to push my digital painting skills this time, and I'm really happy with the way this picture turned out.

It's based on the fairy tale The Frog Prince. I wanted it to look like a traditional fairy tale picture, but with a bit of humor in it as well. I took my own reference photos for the princess - I actually dressed up and set the timer on my camera and posed, since no one else was around at the moment I got the idea for this picture. I painted it all in Photoshop with my tablet. It took countless hours to get this picture to a point where I was happy with it, but it was all worth it. ;)

Prints of this picture are now available!

Wallpaper sized versions are also available for download via my DA gallery. The sizes are as follows:
- 1024x768 (can be sized down for 800x600)
- 1280x1024

Sketchbook Pages

Wouldn't it be loverly?

I watched My Fair Lady the other night, which left me wanting to draw that giant hat.