Latest Artwork: Hand Studies in Pencil/Gouache, and Watercolor Food Illustration

​Hello! Here are some sketches and paintings I did this week .

​This was my second week starting my days with hand sketches and it's amazing to see how much I have improved already. I can tell I am getting faster and faster at drawing the initial hand shapes and proportions. Next week I want to focus on creating cleaner and more effective hatching and crosshatching when adding in shadows.

Hand gouache painting. Reeves gouache tubes on Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

The first painting included here was created with gouache and it is literally the second painting I have done using this media. Gouache is something that I want to keep improving at. The second was created using watercolors and it was a remake of a painting I had done several months ago.

This exercise was something I was interested in doing because I wanted to be able to compare two paintings of the same subject created months apart. After that are my morning hand sketches of the week which I post on Instagram and Twitter every morning from Monday through Friday. 
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Watercolor coffee cup and biscotti painting. Winsor and Newton watercolors on Canson watercolor paper.

Original photo by Jonathan Pielmayer found on Unsplash here.

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Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

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Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

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Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

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Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

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