Quick studies

Collected some quick studies I've done over the last couple of months. Really like where these are headed.

Roadtrip

Watercolour sketch of my wonderful wife Liz, in a motel  down south, close to San Diego.

Liz

I found this watercolour I did of my wife, Liz. It was done during a cross country trip in the USA. After a long day of driving we were back in our hotel room relaxing.

Great memories, more to come!

Small Acrylic studies

Lately I picked up some acrylics and did a bunch of small studies. 5x7 in size, and fairly quick. Pretty happy with some of these, hope you like it!

old lady doodle doodle

Found this cool pen & ink brush for photoshop. Really fun to play with, just a 5 minute sketch this time, but I'm gonna play with it more in the future.

Edgar Payne studies.

So one of my favorite landscape painters are Edgar Payne. He does have a book called "Composition of Outdoor Painting", a book I have heard amazing things about from some people, while other people describe it as unreadable. At some point I'll probably try to get hold of a copy, but for now I think I'll just enjoy his paintings.  I have wanted to do some studies for a while, and the last two weeks I pulled myself together and got around to a quick-study every morning.

I think you can learn so much about shapes from this painter. Very helpful to paint through what I imagine to be his process.

We picked up these sample acrylic colours that came with a magazine and I tried them out. Heck if I know if they are good acrylic paints, but they were fun to play with at the end of the day.

Pastel Figure Drawing

I picked up some pastel by chance this week, and ended up having a lot of fun with it, I just love massing in the shapes and values. The pastel really covers up my heavy hand and current emphasis on construction drawing in a really nice way, I think. 

Sketching around the city

Just spending some time getting back into painting digitally. Colour study from Pulp Fiction, after seeing the trailer for Django unchained I have been on a bit of a Tarantino marathon. Such great lighting and design in his movies, not that I did it justice in this sketch. Will have to try another one!

Some more quick practicing. again from artsyposes.com