Flower Sketch

I still love just putting Pencil to paper and going with the flow. Flowers come very naturally to me, these are actually designs i am using in my new piece, i am painting a cigar box with acrylics.

Water Color Tray with imagination

I decided to paint a bit on my lunch break between classes, so i sat on a bench and just went for it. I thought of a romantic night in France, which inevitably leads me to thinking about the ocean and waves! My sketch paper is not exactly water color ready, as you can see! I recently went out and got a watercolor field pad and i am looking forward to using it in the near future! hopefully it will be full by the end of Christmas!

Conservatory

I bought a water color tray so i could travel and sketch whatever i see in a quick amount of time, instead of using water color tubes. I went to the Cincinnati Conservatory and had a blast sketching the waterfall and some different plants that caught my eye. I really liked using a tray!

Acrylic (Fall Edition)

So, I still only have the primary colors, brown and green for acrylic colors, but i really wanted to make a fall painting. This is a more abstract picture of a golden trail with fall trees all around it.




This is my second fall painting, it was at a park and i drew a few things i was looking at. I did alot of mixing in water which made a pretty unique leafy floor. I have been using watercolor paper to do my acrylic art on and i realized that this is why the sky keeps bleeding through my foreground, because i need to invest in some actual acrlic paper (it's much more plastic feeling, instead of paper)

Dragon & Gypsy

I loved painting the dragon, and I also thought the gypsy was one of my best pieces of art. So I wanted to combine them together and make a fun scene. This piece was originally going to be painted on a larger canvas as a gift, and this was a trial size. I am very proud of this piece; it was all done by my imagination and inspired by Adam, Kim and my previous art.

First paintings using acrylics

This is the results of my first time putting acrylic on paper. It actually came out pretty cool seeing as that I have never painted a wave before EVER!! I think i am going to be drawing more ocean scenes in the future. Acrylic is strange to mix with, I only have blue, red, yellow and green. No white or black. It has been truly educational re-learning the color wheel





I was painting this Koi Fish and was amazed how good it was begining to look, i decided to dedicate it to my friend Jaime for her birthday party we were going to that day and gave away my first painting. It is a big step, giving away a piece of art. It is humbling, embarrassing because you dont know if the person will want it or if they feel they have to take it. But her and Stewart seemed genuinely excited about the painting! I painted it on a Macy's box (the white slick box you put clothes in) and I really liked using that surface. The only flaw of this painting is that the ball point I used to draw the painting showed through the paint, and I thought it would be covered up. I also highlighted certain parts of the Koi with Sharpie. So it is also my first "Mixed Media" piece as well.

More Water Color Pencil. The Dragon!

I finally felt i had the ability to do this Dragon. It has been my goal since i began drawing. I am extremely excited about this picture. The shading came out great, I didn't outline the whole picture, just the parts I wanted to emphasize. I painted the background last, which i am sure is against procedure in a regular front to back water color picture.

Water Color Pencils!!

Well, I had no idea when someone hinted that i should try using water color pencils
instead of tubes that it would create this type of difference! I am so pleased with the results. I am finally starting to get the look I have been striving for. This is the same picture but with he pencils you can get more detail in without blurring up the whole image. I didn't outline the girl
the second time but as you can see, the outline really makes
the image pop!

For my next piece I really wanted to get that old school "tattoo flash image" look. I think it came out pretty cool.

Tattoo Paintings

I finally felt up to drawing some serious tattoo style painting. I felt these were some classic images. I got them from a "book of tattoos". Once again, i had a problem with the background. I did the blue first, but I tried to steer around the outlines because the color was so dark, i didn't want it to affect the color of everything else i would paint over it. I ended up messing up the picture by putting way too much blue on the blade of the sword.


I got this book called "Tattoo Bible vol. 2" and it is awesome, so many great images. I wanted to zoom in on this gypsie and just capture her head and put a flower behind her to add some depth. I also did 2 new things. One, I painted the background with old coffee which was supposed to give a cool "old" look to it, but the coffee wasn't black enough. Two, I spent alot of time layering, especially with her scarf on her head and her hair.



I tried once again to make a Koi Fish, much better attempt than my first one! I did alot of layering, no background first, I just went with light to dark. I love the colors of the water and that Japanese water came out great.


My mom always said i need to draw religious images, so this painting is dedicated to her. Our Lady of Guadalupe. I didn't put a thick outline around her, i'm not sure if that was a mistake or not, but she doesn't pop very much. The background rays came out very cool. The layering on her clothes took forever!

This painting is awesome! I poured a bunch of coffee grounds into a cup with water and heated it up. you cant see it too well in this picture, but I layered the coffee 3 times and let it dry each time. It is a great trick, you just need extreme black coffee! I think this picture really captures that old school "sailor Jerry" tattoo style, which is what i was going for.

Advanced Colored Pencil

After getting tired of water coloring i went back to colored penciling to try and learn more about lighting and shading. I was looking at a "fantasy water, land and sky creatures" book and it had pictures of these fish, so i made a scene and colored it. Someone told me outlining things with a prominent color used will pop the image more, so that's what i did. I sort of looks like all the fish are electric!

This image came to me one night when my wife was a week past her due date sleeping on our couch at like 10 at night. I just kept thinking of our little girl and wanted to draw what i saw in my mind. I had the book i mentioned above, the angel's outfit and wings came from that.


This is a picture i have always wanted to capture on paper, the end of "the end times". When St. Michael finally kills Satan! Mary is praying to the side. I used the book above to inspire St. Michael and Mary, but was still my own.



My newest drawing right now is this frog, so cool! i didn't want to paint him, i felt i could capture him better with pencil.