Sketches, Imaginary & Studies

Invented Dancer Figure

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

8”X11” Graphite on Paper. I named this one ‘Dancing through Fire’. I started it while listening to the lyrics of a song I heard on the radio earlier that day. It was a pop song about self-empowerment, but the visual image of a dancer dancing amidst flames ignited my imagination and I grabbed my sketchbook and […]

Tiny Dancer/ Fabric sketch

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Anatomy Studies in Pen

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Portrait drawn from life

Types: Short Drawings from Life

Brown Pastel Pencil on Paper. I drew this from a model focusing on simplifying the values first and tending to structure second. About 1 hour drawing time.

A Woman’s Face, from imagination

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Male torso, study in Charcoal

Types: Imaginary, Sketches and Studies, Short Drawings from Life

I don’t know

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Study of Reading Light

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Quick Sketch from Life

Types: Imaginary, Sketches and Studies, Sketches from Life

Reflection of the Ocean at Dusk

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies, Sketches from Life

MoonLight

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies, Sketches from Life

Curled Up

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

The nextdoor neighbor

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Arching Back, Sketch

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Bigbird visiting south Cali Office

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Archer

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Zyra at Night

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Portrait of Ryan

Types: Drawings, Short Drawings from Life

A non-theist Prayer

Types: Drawings, Imaginary

This drawing describes how I feel in many instances in life, observing the world. And while it is not a religious declaration, I couldn’t help but notice the extreme similarity to a prayer. It is not a call to a creator or a plea of any kind, but it is a dedication of the self […]

The Discarded Onion

Types: Color Studies, Paintings

I started this painting a couple of weeks ago and ended up discarding it. I set up this still life arrangement and sat down to paint from observation as a change of pace from the other pieces I’m working on which are largely imaginative and require a lot of interpolation. Painting from observation was fun, […]

Color study of Ladies on a Boat

Types: Color Studies, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

I had a few goals in painting this one: The first goal was to find the right color relationships to create a sense of glow in the study. I emphasized and added harmonies from the reference photo. the second goal was to try to stick strictly to flat shapes rather than form, and see how […]

Female Nude, Life Drawing

Types: Imaginary, Sketches and Studies, Short Drawings from Life

Tangled

Types: Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

The sun Priestess

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

The Strange encounter

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Sketch of a Dancer

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Figure Study, Red Hair

Types: Color Studies, Paintings

This study is part of a series of preparations for a large painting that combines landscape and a figure.

Study for ‘Autumn Leaves’

Types: Color Studies, Paintings

Aerial

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Anatomy Study, female figure

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Flooded with Light

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Power Struggles

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Circles

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Masked Woman

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Female Dancer

Types: Anatomy, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Lantern Light

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

A tiny Mermaid

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Autumn Leaves

Types: Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Autumn Leav

Leaning back in Space

Types: Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Color Study for ‘Night sky’

Types: Color Studies, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Value Study

Types: Color Studies, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Yellow Objects

Types: Color Studies, Paintings

Evening forest

Types: Digital, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Mermaid at night

Types: Digital, Digital, Imaginary, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

This was my first digital painting on my iPad, done in Procreate using an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil

The Artichoke Queen

Types: Digital, Digital, Imaginary, Sketches and Studies

Confidently, she marches on over the field of artichokes over which she rules. Digital Drawing. Created on an iPad Pro + an Apple pencil with ProCreate

Plants in Sunlight – Oil Painting

Types: Color Studies, Paintings

Plants in sunlight, living their own slow paced existence. Also a study of bright colors under atmospheric perspective. In Private collection of an Art loving individual