Fire Light - Vicarious Exhibition

This painting is titled Fire Light, it is an acrylic on canvas, 14x11 inches. It appears as if I painted on black canvas, but no. This started as a white canvas. I then painted transparent layers of red, blue and green over each other three times for a total of nine layers. So the black is actually layers of red, blue and green which creates a depth to the "black".

Vicarious Exhibition: Fire Series

The Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art is hosting an exhibition of art by Veterans. I am one of the featured artists and veterans. These paintings from my fire series will be in the exhibition. The above watercolor is titles Cave Fire. The fire in this painting illuminates petroglyphs from the American Southwest. It is 18 x 24 inches. I used a layering technique which resulted in over 20 layers of color.

Fire Light, Acrylic on canvas.

Flame, watercolor on paper.

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.

BOOM Sponsor

Bosbyshell Art Studio has sponsored Charlotte's BOOM Festival! See you there.

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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.