Latest Artwork: Hand Studies in Pencil and Gouache, Hand Lettering on Canvas and Watercolor Coffee

9/10/2017

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.

Watercolor coffee cup and biscotti painting. Winsor and Newton watercolors on Canson watercolor paper.

Original photo by Jonathan Pielmayer found on Unsplash here.

Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

And last but not least is something I don't usually do much of and didn't know if I should include or not. This is an acrylic canvas painting that I created as a present for my soon to be born nephew. My sister-in-law asked me to create some room decor for him that included a Winnie-the-Pooh inspired quote and I came up with this. Hand-lettering is something I really enjoy so I had fun coming up with nice design. I am also creating some watercolor paintings of Winnie the Pooh for his room but will not be posting those.

Thank you for coming by! Enjoy your Sunday!