Plein Air Painting

I'm very happy with how much I learned in Plein Air painting this semester. I decided I would put up all of my paintings together. Thankfully my teacher requested a digital copy of these so it gave me motivation to compile these all together sooner. I tried to order them from the beginning to the end of the class. I still would like to be much much better at this but it's a start. Some things I want to work on: color relationships, clear foreground against soft background, creating a focal point, experimenting with high and low contrast, and more architecture. I'm going to keep working hard and getting better!

Portfolio

This is the first version of my portfolio for my review today. Putting this together made me feel really good about how much improvement I've made. Much of that improvement was within the past year. I'm going to keep improving by leaps and bounds and kicking ass this next year. A big thanks to all my friends for pushing me to do more!

Plein Air Oi

I took plein air painting this semester. It was a challenging class. This is one of my better paintings. It was not as easy as I thought it would be but my knowledge of painting color and sketching environments did help. It was maddening at times, but I'm glad I feel I learned a lot.

Digital Illustration Project 3

I'm happy with how this one turned out. I love painting in Photoshop CS5!

Fun Apple Practice

I'm sorry to say that I have a lot more drawings and fun things I've been working on but I don't have a proper scanner at the moment. At least I can show off some fun practice I had with my oil paint. I had plenty of colors left over from plein air painting today and thought that I would have some more fun and use them to paint this apple. The apple has been sitting in my room for a week or two because it's colors are so beautiful I knew I would have to paint it eventually. Thought this might make a good gift for the parents of a young child and thus I added "A is for Apple". It might also make a good gift to a grade school teacher.

Kristine

I drew Kristine last time the PMC got together to cafe sketch. I think the top one captures her likeness the best.

Something sweet +more dinosaurs

Christina gave me the idea for this. She didn't draw it yet that I know of so I thought I would.