Illustration Friday - Sweet

Sad St. Bernard

30 x 40 

oil on canvas

Illustration Friday - Tension

I've been trying out sort of a different style lately - here's my first completely digital painting in photoshop. Its been a lot of fun this week finally learning to use my wacom tablet, so I think I'll be working this way for a while. 

Meet Albert the giant bunny -- he's just trying to find his place in this world and someone who will finally accept him! I hope to make this big guy part of a series, so I'll start the next one soon. 

Illustration Friday - Liquid

Some practice with the wacom tablet. I've been avoiding learning it <.<

Process Sketches

Here are just some sketches for a Grimm Fairy tale piece I'll be working on this week.

Illustration Friday - Talent

Decided on submitting this to Illustration Friday this week, the subject is talent - so I thought it would fit well with the topic. 

The Artist Mouse

6" x 9"

Oil on board

A new girlfriend for Ben

I've never talked about him here on my blog but Ben is my 3 year old mini-lop that I love to pieces. He has been the subject of some of my drawings/paintings a few times!

Well, I've been thinking about getting him a partner for sometime now and I finally followed through with it after visiting the Rabbit House Society's local shelter. We tried a few different buns but he seemed to favor this gal the most - so that's who we went home with! Her name is Esther and she's a 3 year old English Spot with a really sad back story (she had a litter at only 4 months old and her previous owners tried to drown them all to get rid of them). She's pretty much lived at the shelter all of her life - so I'm really excited to give her a good home. Here's them posing for their first picture.

Baby New Year

Hope everyone had a happy and safe holidays. My new years resolution is to draw less bunnies - as I draw far to many of them. Here's my first drawing of the new year - as you can see I'm off to a good start already! Hm, must find another resolution.

Baby New Year

5 1/2" x 5 1/2"

The Takeover Illustration

This is a much different, brighter palette than I usually go for - but I was really just trying something new. My favorite animal - so I'm ok with this takeover!

The Takeover

8" x 10"

Another Illustration class over

Sorry I haven't been posting, been a really busy semester. Took another Illustration class this fall and its been fun! This is one of my more favorite pieces from the semester, I guess I was trying out a more playful style.

 

Summer Sunset Series: At Dusk

Summer Sunset Series

4" x 7"

Oil on board

Summer Sunsets 5 of 6

Lots of clouds in this one

Summer Sunset Series 5 of 6

4" x 7"

Oil on board

Summer Sunset Series: Yellow Sky

Summer Sunsets 6 of 10

4" x 7"

Oil on board

Summer Sunset Series

These are actually a bit old now but I finally got around to scanning them. This was day one in a series of quick studies created around sunset every day during the summer. I wanted to see all the different color variations each day and they're each a bit different in their own way. I know I've been slacking with uploading new images, so I'll start by uploading this first one, which is very blue compared to the others. More to come tomorrow.

Summer Sunsets 1 of 10

4" x 7"

Oil on board

Illustration Friday: Carry

This was my first time with experimenting with copic markers and it was a lot of fun! I'll most definatly be using this medium a lot in the future when I don't feel like whipping out the oil paints and getting my hands dirty.

Carry On Bunny

7" x 8"

Daily Paintings Night Landscape

Illustration Friday: Suspend

Still a bit rough around the edges, and it was hard to photograph without catching the shine from the wet oil paint. I think I'll go back in later and fix it up to my liking!

I wanted to do something simple and quick for this one since I didn't have much time to work on it this week. I thought of a "human-like" mouse tightrope artist for this topic.

"Mouse Circus"

6" x 7" 

Oil on Board

Daily Paintings Baby Mini Lop

Done for today! 

"Baby goes on a picnic"
Approximately 5" x 6" 
Oil on Board

SOLD

Daily Paintings Storm Clouds

For yesterday's painting I realized that I hadn't done any landscape paintings in a long time, so I think they'll be the subject of a few more of these.

"Storm Clouds"

Day 8 of my new "Daily Painting" series
Approximately 7" x 5" 
Oil on Board

Daily Paintings Humming Bird

Here's a quick one from early this morning.

"Humming Bird"

approximately 5" x 6"

Oil on board

Illustration Friday: Refresh

Kind of took a break on daily paintings this week to work on my very first submission to Illustration Friday. I've always wanted to participate but always ended up missing the deadline! I hope to make this a weekly thing. This weeks topic was refresh - this little fella surely thinks the summer rain is refreshing!

entitled "Refreshing"
8" x 10"
Oil on Canvas Panel