Portrait of Richard

Here is a portrait I recently completed. All the details can be found in the work in progress located here Portrait WIP

First Prayer Card...

For this post I will share with you a prayer card I finished recently. It's my first time doing one. I did this for a close friend of mine who is starting to do evangelism. He is sent from a church down in TN, but his home church is now the church I attend. He is a great preacher and I totally enjoy hearing him preach.

They were pretty happy with what I did. We got a pretty good deal through www.gotprint.com which was 5,000 cards for 99 dollars, but it was only for a front design, other wise I wouldn't have made it so busy on the front.

If you would like a cassette tape or cd of his preaching just contact me. He has preached quite a few times at our church, and since I run our tape ministry... I can hook you up with some of his preaching.

This weekend I'll be showing you my finished work in progress of a portrait I just finished this week.

Watercolor Rose, work in progress...

This is a recent watercolor I did of a rose. I enjoyed using the watercolors. The only other time I used watercolor was in college for a frog I painted. I probably will do some more of these. I will be showing you the reference photo, and a few pictures of the art work as I was working on it. I'm sorry I don't have all of the pictures when I was working on it.... it seems after the last one before the finished work, I must have forgotten to take pictures... I finished this right before our baby was born on 11-6-06.

This water color is also up for sale, if interested please contact me.

My First Blog Post...

Hello to all who are viewing this. I hope you will continue to come back and view my art work and work in progress. This is new for me, so please bear with me. Always any comments and suggestions are welcome.

For my first two posts I'll post some new art work I finished I think at the end of last year. For this post I'll be putting up a painting I did of Yoda from Star Wars. I got the picture from a comic convention I went to. They had this life size statue of yoda, so I snapped a picture of it.

I used gouche as my medium. And I was attempting to do the same style Alex Ross does in his art. But I sort of feel short of his excellent work. You can see his things at www.alexrossart.com to see what I'm talking about. I first started by masking off everything but the background. I painted the background by doing shades of black into green, then I used a simple sponge and dipped on side in the black and the other in green. I had no clue what this was going to look like and I hate doing backgrounds, so I figured who cares if I mess it up lol.

After that I took off the liquid mask I used on it and began just painting in black. Once I got the detail to where I wanted I then added the colors in. I know my green is off for this skin tone... but this was only my second time using gouche. I first attempt in college turned out quite well.

I'll also attach the pencil drawing I did for this. Currently this painting is still up for sale. I attempted to sell it on Ebay, but got no bids... if you are interested in buying it, please contact me.

Please don't use the art work on this site with out my written permission, thanks.

Well enough of this babbling... thanks for taking a look and reading!