exists to create art which reflects the beauty and the glory of God, to use art to comfort and encourage people, and to inspire others to pursue the arts.
I love this style of art. It is called neurographic art. Or at least it is my interpretation of it. I think it is relaxing to do and relaxing to look at. Colorful, too.
This is oil-based colored pencils, wax-based colored pencils, alcohol markers, and sharpie on 9×12 toned sketch paper.
This, below, is a pen and ink sketch that I did a while back of our house not long after we moved in. It has been sitting around waiting for me to do something with it. So, I got some watercolor pencils and decided to sacrifice this drawing to the experiment. I like it, but I decided to play with the digital image and think it turned out a little Van Gogh-y. I like that, too. LOL!
Which one do you like?
With an apple I will astonish Paris. — Paul Cezanne
This is from a photo I took when we lived in Ohio. I have a lot of photos from the 18 years that we lived there, mostly in the beautiful autumns. It is so cold and snowy here that I thought I would do a sunny landscape with lots of colors. This is an 8×10 on red sanded matboard with soft pastels.
Below is my reference photo. I believe I took it while walking on Murray road, so it must have been just across the road from our house. Or not far.
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry
I am finished with my latest commission portrait. Kevin has recently passed away and this is one of Beth’s favorite photos of them, together. I thought it was a wonderful photo from which to work. It is difficult getting a good reference photo.
This portrait was made with oil-based colored pencils and alcohol markers on hot-pressed watercolor paper. It is 14×10. Beth is really happy with it and so am I. I love it. I hate to send it to her, because I will miss it. LOL!
It is snowing here, in Huntsville, today. We have an ice sandwich in the works: snow, then ice, then snow. Fortunately, we have nowhere we need to go. So, I have just been taking pictures and playing Huntsville-opoly with Ron. He won, today.
Yes, this is nothing compared to Ohio or elsewhere, but it is a lot for Huntsville. We are pretty much shut down. LOL! But, I think everyone needs a break once in a while to sit around and drink hot beverages and look out the window. As long as the electricity sticks around for the duration…
I think I will make a pastel landscape this afternoon.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. —André Maurois
I have decided to make all kinds of resolutions, even though I may not keep 90% of them. If I keep one, I am ahead, eh? I think so. Actually, I have made six main ones, one of which is to make art every day, even if it is just five minutes working on a piece. So far, this year, I have kept all my resolutions flawlessly. LOL! Just kidding! The first day I messed up, but I am going to keep on trucking.
I have finally begun my latest portrait commission. I decided to do it in colored pencil and needed to do some practice with other things before I began. I am making it on a 12×16 piece of hot press watercolor paper with oil based colored pencils. This initial sketch is done with a very light brown pencil. I worried that I would not get the likeness or the loving look shared between them, but I am excited to say that I think I got it! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture! LOL!
Of course, it is not perfect (and never will be), but it is pretty good for a start. My next chemo treatment is this Thursday. I hope I get some work done on it before then. It may be a couple of weeks after my treatment that I am able to work on it again.
Also, I have updated my Fine Art America Shop. At first, I only had the free shop, which only allowed me to upload 25 pieces for sale. I finally decided to bite the bullet, which turned out to be not that big of a bullet, and pay for the unlimited uploads. So, I have uploaded over 200 pieces AND I put them in collections to, hopefully, make it a little easier on shoppers. Recently, I actually had a sale and it was very encouraging. I don’t know who it was, but if you are reading this, Thank You. Fine Art America does not reveal the identity of customers.
Well, I am off to do laundry, then make my man some lunch, and then get to work on this portrait. Yay! I hope you all have a wonderful, productive, art-filled year. The quote below is from my devotions this morning. That is one of my resolutions. The photo is from a walk on the Kokosing Trail in Mount Vernon, Ohio, when we lived there.
Grant, O Lord, that from this hour I may know only that which is worthy to be known; that I may love only that which is truly lovely; that I may praise only that which chiefly pleases you; and that I may esteem what you esteem, and despise that which is contemptible in your sight! Suffer me no longer to judge by the imperfect perception of my own senses, or of the senses of men ignorant like myself; but enable me to judge both of visible and invisible things, by the Spirit of truth; and, above all, to know and to obey your will. Amen. – Thomas a Kempis
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