Drawings at Veterans Bridge Home

Until the end of November, these drawings on exhibit at the Veterans Bridge Home in Charlotte. The link to the VBH is: http://veteransbridgehome.org/. You can visit any time during normal business hours Monday to Friday.

The drawings in this post are ones I did recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are close up details of pine trees on the Arrowmont Art School property. I used a lot of texture on these, even going so far as to rub the paper onto the tree itself.

 I drew these from life, sitting outside with a drawing board. During the week I was drawing we saw a few bear wandering around. Once I thought a bear was walking down the trail I was on, but it was just a human running.

 All of the drawings are 18 x 24 inches. I used 2B to 8B pencils. The texture is offset by a few delicate small branches.

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New Weight Drawing at Wooden Robot Brewery

This drawing from my Weight Series of figure drawings is on display at the Wooden Robot Brewery. The Brewery is located on Bland Street just off South Tryon. The painting hangs right across from the bar.  They have awesome beer in addition to the art! This drawing is 6 feet tall on paper. I used graphite and white charcoal as the mediums. I drew from a live model.

Living Room Painting

The Living Room is a Frame Shop in Charlotte. It used to be in this building on Camden Road. This painting is a tribute to the location in South End Charlotte. Drawing above.

Painting in the large areas. Most of the time each area will take several layers to finish. Except the sky, you have to get that right the first time.

More detail and the major shadow.

Detail for the motorcycle.

Final painting!

Foggy Landscape Series III

Background complete, foreground tree 1st three layers of color.

Detail.

Dry brush texture added to tree trunk.

Detail

Original pencil sketch, drawn outside.

Foggy Landscape Series Work in Progress

 Here is some work in progress on my foggy landscape series.  

Great gnarly tree.  I think it looks like grandpa Tree at Discovery Place, a children's museum in Charlotte.

 You an barely see the blue ridge mountains in the distance.  The following images are close up details of several paintings.

 

 

  

Foggy Landscape Series

This is the beginning of a new series I am working on. I began painting o it in the NC mountains a few weeks ago. This is 8 x 10 watercolor on paper.