Standing on a Fence

Red and Black Ink. 9x12

I took this picture of my friends a few months ago. I didn't consider drawing it until I'd seen a story book in my mom's collection called "Cat Sank!" which has very simplistic illustrations but describes decorations and metal grates on architecture etc. I saw in this photo the designs in the fence and on the light post and decided to put it into a drawing. I like how the girls turned out looking active and not sitting still as most of my portraits tend to be.

Sketch Book

 I thought I would show you a few pages of my sketch book today. You can see how plain a drawing looks when you first start out.

These to your left are some sketches I did while watching an old black and white movie from the 1930's which explains styles etc.

This was done while hanging out with some friends of mine. I wanted to draw people who weren't sitting still, but that's all the people were doing.

Here I was drawing, as usual, and someone's like "I dare you to draw my dad," so I did. Then he demonstrated his drawing skills (the character labeled 'Nate').

Wisconsin Scenes

Pastel drawing.

Acrylic paint.

The drawing on top is from something I took on my camera phone. My artist friend helped me put graffiti in the sky because I thought it would have a fun effect. The painting below I did a few months ago and it was mostly just for experimental purposes and I wasn't used to paints yet. I was driving in the car one day and noticed just how the sky was so blue next to the trees which were such a bland color brown and thought it was an interesting color combo.

Georgica

Pastel Drawing. 9x12 inches

This one I wanted to focus more on her hair. That's why you see so much of it.

Bran Castle (Dracula's Castle)

Mixed media. Aprox. 9x9 inches

This was an experiment. I have to admit to you right away that I printed the castle off the internet, so I can't receive credit for drawing it accurately. But I painted green and red onto the roof and the trees, cut out tracing paper to put over the trees in the distance, cut the horizon and the roofs of the building from the sky and glued that to a yellow page which I had partially painted with blue. Then for added affect, I put writing all over it. It turned out looking kind of messy and busy, but sometime I'll post one that I actually drew. :)

Mama Wyah

Pastel drawing. 9x12

This lady is so sweet. Nothing made me miss Romania more than when I drew her. She would have people stay in her house and she would cook for us. She served us some delicious stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers, some sort of a flat bread, and coffee. She also made me breakfast a couple of times. And she was always just so nice to everybody. Yeah, I miss her a lot. I've also done a pencil drawing of her and I might post that sometime.

Romanian Villager (2 versions)

Pastel drawing. 9x12

Goache Paint. 9x12

Here are two more versions of the Romanian Villager. I know you're all probably wondering why I keep drawing this guy and it's just because his face had so much character to it that I had to draw it. So I've tried it in three different mediums so far. You may remember the charcoal drawing I did of him awhile back. I hope you like it.