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Pipe?

9/22/2014

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This is a small collectable that I purchased quite awhile ago. I've been meaning to paint it for a long time. With my morning practice of drawing I want to now draw many of my treasured small pieces. Wasn't sure what to call this object I gather though it is possibly a hash pipe.

This new practice has been very enjoyable and I feel something missing if I don't do it everyday. This small object took 4 morning sessions to complete to my satisfaction. I like this little pipe it stands 5" but I drew it slightly larger then life size. There are small images on the silver bands with symbolism I don't understand but beautifully done reliefs.
This graphite drawing will start on the my auction tomorrow.
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/260468
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Bard Owls

7/22/2014

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I spent the last 2 evenings on owl time, sketching this up. I remembered I had some quality paper around to experiment on, this is some Ingres paper and I think by using the rougher side it created a lot of extra work. I was not getting the kind of darks in the background I was hoping for to offset the owls in the foreground. It took a lot of extra crosshatching which I'm practicing at but this had gotten a bit too much so I ended in stumping it down.
I've enjoyed doing these owls and trying to capture the fondness that I saw between them.
This will go to auction tomorrow July 23.
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/242923

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Bard Owl Smooch'n

7/20/2014

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I caught these Bard owls in the act of smooching. 
I've been a bit of a night owl myself lately and stayed up far too late sketching this last evening. Graphite on paper 8.5"x11.5" and this is going up for auction July 21st check it out. 

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/242404
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Andre From My Sketch Book

6/28/2014

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My plan to finish the oil portrait of Andre went out the window today. I did however sit down and pencil sketch him again. I've wanted to practice sketching his mouth as I can see now, this is giving me trouble and capturing the correct expression on the painting has eluded me. Having him come and sit has been great and the pencil sketching has given me some insight as to how I may now finish the painting. I decided to put this up for auction as I went further with the sketch then just the mouth and I'm curious to see if a portrait as interesting as this will sell on line.
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Orchids a sketch in graphite

6/21/2014

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Having been drawing for weeks now in my sketch book as a preliminary step to the portraits, I've decided I like doing graphite so much that I wanted to do something a little different on my day off. Might have to take another day off this weekend and do something else not art related. This was the orchid I purchased a week ago and I've been trying to find time to paint it again but this did not happened yet.
Here I was trying to look at edges and try and get depth to the drawing. Fun stuff!

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