Geronimo

This is for one of my groups on flickr. They post a photo to use as a reference and everybody posts their versions of it. Love it! They post some really random pics so far! LOL!

Mixed Media in one of my hand*book journals.....

Shhhh.... Stage 4

Here I added that same lavendar i had originally painted the background with to the sash, neckline, and wings. I like how these colors go together, a lot. I also added some raw sienna and burnt umber glazes to her to make it more dimensional. Here's where i should have stopped to review the pictures and taken a step back for a minute. the face was not totally horrific here. the neckline is at a much more graceful angle, and it's still relatively unmucked with charcoal dirt. but, alas. I am very impatient. .....

Shhhh.... Stage 3

Hmmm, the face is not so bad...Here I added a bright tangerine glaze to the upper right and lower left corners, topped that with a glaze of my Irr. Antique Copper, and another layer of the tangerine glaze. I also added some white glaze highlights to her arms dress and hair, and right along the profile of her face. Added a very thin bit of the copper glaze to the wings to try and bring back some depth.

Shhhh....Stage 2

I have such a hard time with this face angle. I am really going to have to keep practicing it, and not in willow charcoal. This stage I added a glaze of my Irr. Antique Copper mixed with a raspberry color to the background, and a white glaze to the wings.I did try to redo the face....a few more times! LOL fix. fix. fix. repair. repair. repair. LOL i do like the wings so far though...

Shhhh.... Stage 1

So, today I decided to just let go and play. I started with a canvas i had painted a lavendery violet, covered with sewing pattern tissue, and then added a wash of liquitex's Irridescent Antique Copper, which apparently they've stopped making. I'm quite pissed about that actually, because it's my favorite color to mix with purples and violety pinks. I have been trying to find a similar replacement color, but no such luck yet. They're all way too orange...this was neutraly brown, almost rosy. It's hard to explain, but it was perfect, so of course now it's gone. Anywho. so I took my willow charcoal and just sketched a quick angel. ugh...she's crappy. she does get better. and then worse. and then, i think, better again. anyway, it's all about playing today! and, fyi. if you've never photographed your progress, it's quite eye opening. I wish i had looked at my photos at each stage before i continued....there are some things that i thought i had done wrong, but looked ok in the photograph, but of course i had already tried to cover over my boo-boo's. NEVER A GOOD IDEA WHEN USING CHARCOAL>>>IT JUST GETS SUPER MUCKY!

Figure Drawing- Male Model

Here are the figure drawings from the sessions with the male model that hadn't already been posted:

The rest of the self portraits

I photographed all the self portraits from the past 2 semesters, and here are the ones that hadn't already been posted:

Some Older Drawings

These are some drawings from the past semesters that never got photographed for the portfolio:

My Sweet Rosalie

Our last assignment in drawing was to make a collage of black and white pictures, and then draw our collage on etching paper with charcoal. I have these wonderful pictures of my grandmother at the beach with her friends that i've been wanting to use in an art project forever, so I did my drawing of my rockin' hot grandma...a real true pin up gal! I love how it came out, and plan to redo it in color so that it looks like old sailor jerry tattoo flash....

Figure Drawing 4

another female figure drawing...

Figure Drawing 1

Seated figure drawing