Charleston Sketches

These are all color sketches for a Charleston painting.  

Sketch 1 - swamp in foreground, boat, small light house way back.

Sketch 2 - Low key vlues with clouds.

 Sketch 3 - Red and green colors.

 Sketch 4 - Pink and green.

 Sketch 5 - Blue, pink, green, yellow.

 Sketch 6 -  swap green and blue.

Sketch 7 - Green lower, blue sky.

Illustraton Process

Here is a little more information about the process of completing the Thanksgiving Parade Illustration.  Above is one layer of watercolor paint.

Another Layer.

This is just before I began the color pencil.

Here is a close up of one of the final illustrations with color pencil on top.

Thanksgiving Illustration

I started with this black and white collage of the various images.  The Photos were taken by Jim McGuire for Center City Partners.  They then asked me to create 5 illustrations for the parade sponsors.  I then used a transfer technique using winter-green oil to create a mono-print.  Over the mono-print, I painted many washes using watercolor paint.  Then I put details in with color pencil.

Portrait

Full portrait: father and twin daughters.  Graphite on paper.

Detail

Details

Figure Sketches

With some winter weather, it has been a good time to get to the studio.  Here are a few new figure sketches.

This one is a cartoon.  Strong mechanical lines.

An unusual pose.

Detail

The two page full view of the 1st drawing.

Another Unusual pose.

Figure Sketches

Here are my latest figure sketches.  All are with red color pencil in a moleskine sketch boo. 

Ribbn from sketch book shown.

Pencil included.

Hungary Sketch

This is a pencil sketch I did of a composite scene in Hungary.  The church, fountain, and buildings are all in different places, put them together.  I like the contrast in the shadow in the three planes of the painting.