Ok I painted this one earlier this evening for a dear friend Rose, in NC.
Rose
Rose spoke about wanting a souvenir from Ireland – so how about an original, one-off painting done just for her?
I know how much Rose, like me, suffers with her health so I am going to frame this painting and send it to her soon and perhaps every time she sees it it will bring a smile to her as she remembers that she really is loved.
Before taking ill again I promised to do a Dinosaur picture for my Grandson Josh in Canada.
Well since tomorrow night at art group I am planning on teaching the new wet and dry water colour pencil technique that I have been developing I thought I would combine both my need to do Josh a dinosaur picture and my need to prep for tomorrow.
Birth of a Dinosaur
This is the picture I drew for Josh using the new technique.
I hope and pray that he likes it.
Well the truth is that this picture was done as I liked the concept.
The truth is however, that it is a very common misconceptions that it comes from the bible. There is in fact no such statement in the bible and the closest is in Isaiah 11:6 which reads “6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.”
Even so I loved the concept and so did the drawing.
Not completely happy with it but it is ok.
The third thing that I wanted to demonstrate at Art Group last night was that Water Colour Pencils as a medium can be used in different ways to produce different pictures.
To demonstrate this I chose to do a Manga style picture and of course had to make it personal.
So I created this picture which I entitled “The Stealing of Youth”
I hope you like it…
The Stealing of Youth
The other techniques I wanted to demonstrate at Art Group this week was that of sketching and colouring direct to the paper using water colour pencils and then applying the water afterwards.
In order to do this I spent a little time prior to the lesson and sketched the fawn in pencil first and then added the colour using the dry water colour pencils.
This then gave me this picture..
Fawn - Dry Sketch
At art group I showed the group this picture and then whilst they were all creating their own pieces I added water to the piece in order to demonstrate the different finish that it would create.
The finished picture thus looks like this…
Fawn Watercolour
I hope you like it.
At Art Group this week we were looking at Water Colour Pencils and how versatile but manageable they are.
In order to demonstrate three different techniques I did three different picture. This is one of them.
Duck using Free hand water colour pencils
With this picture I began simply by using the brush and taking the pigment straight from the Pencil tip and then brushing it onto the paper in order to create the duck.
For the water I used a combination of “tipping’ this being where I took the pigment straight from the tip of the pencil using a brush and of course bleeding where I dampened the paper and then added the pigment and also colouring straight onto the paper with the pencils and then brushing water onto it.
By using these techniques I could achieve the fluidity or motion of the water.
This piece I call – The Prisoner.
The Prisoner
It, for me at least, speaks of mental health.
I hope you like it.
Amendment 30th April 2010
Ok So I just wasn’t happy with how the painting had turned out. Because of this I worked on it some more and this is the final outcome.
This is another one drawn at the Youth Group Art class.
It is of “Bartman” I hope you enjoy it.
Bartman
This is another subject used at the Saturday morning children’s class that I teach.
This time I chose Spiderman Judo as the subject as it demonstrated not only straight lines and curves but also the fluidity of movement.
Spiderman Judo
The chinese writing is Sean which is the name of the lad whom I teach on Saturday mornings.
Another Monday Night Art Group subject.
This time I talked through the different shapes involved with the drawing.
Not explaining what we were ultimately going to draw until the last minute I broke this picture up into basic shapes (Circles and Ovals) and got them to draw each part in turn and then I revealed what we were drawing.
We then all had to put our own caption on the picture.
Elephant in a tree
