Sketching

A few sketches I've done recently experimenting with different styles!

ArtBARK! Contest Entry

Last week I worked on an entry for the ArtBARK! Contest and raffle which is sponsored by Bone Adventure and Stray Dog Arts. I decided to draw Eddie, a Catahoula Leopard dog that we fostered a few years back!

This is the finished drawing;

It was quite a challenge to draw all the fur and took about two and a half days to finish! I used Blick studio graphite pencils, Copic markers and a white gel pen for this piece. :)

Here's a work in progress shot;

Tonight I'm going to a gallery opening to see it hung along with all of the other entries and the work of Jessie Marianiello of Stray Dog Arts! I'm really excited to see all of the entries, there will be a lot of good artwork there!

Bug drawing

For the past few weeks I have been drawing this bug type of creature in my sketchbook a lot and I decided to do a more finished version of one in color, I used markers and colored pencils. :)

Details.

Painting

This is a mixed media painting I created this week, I used watercolors, colored pencils and of course, creativity!

I had to redo the eye twice on this and I still think it turned out to dark in comparison to the rest of the painting...