Sunday, November 24, 2013

Lioness

Huntress
Medium: Photoshop paint


Watercolor Paintings

These are not as gray and mono-valued as my scanner would like you to believe.


Swirls
Medium: watercolor paint and pen




Mommy
Medium: watercolor paint and pen

Snowy Wolf

Snowy Wolf
Medium: colored pencil

As with most traditional pieces, this did not scan very well.

Pencil Drawings

Medium: Graphite and pencil




Extemporaneous drawing for an art contest. Contestants are given a limited amount of time to draw a random object, hence the rushed look. Unfortunately one of the criteria was to draw the entire object, although I only heard "make a nice composition." Oh well. That's life.
Medium: Graphite pencil
 

Prints

Linocut is a printing technique where a block of linoleum is cut away to create a picture. The parts cut away will appear white (or will allow an already-existent color to show through). To get multiple colors with one piece of linoleum, you have to first cut away your whites, print, then cut away whatever you don't want to be your next color, print, and so on.

Camel - Single-color (black)
Medium: Linocut print


Camel - Multi-colored
Medium: Linocut print








Monoprinting is a printing technique where ink is applied to a flat surface such as a piece of glass and then brushed and/or scratched away to create lighter areas. It gives one or maybe two prints.
Monoprint horse



Lazy Lion
Unknown printing technique
 

Monday, November 11, 2013

Lady and the Tramp

Title: He's a Tramp
Media: Photoshop paint
A scene from Disney's "Lady and the Tramp!" This is from the song "He's a Tramp," where Peg (gray dog) tells Lady (cocker spaniel) about Lady's new boyfriend's Achilles' Heel. Perhaps the sketchiest song in Disney cartoon history. LOL



Song lyrics (performed by Peggy Lee):

"He's a Tramp, but they love him.
Breaks a new heart every day.
He's a Tramp, they adore him.
And I only hope he'll stay that way.

He's a tramp, he's a scoundrel, he's a rounder, he's a cad.
He's a tramp, but I love him!
Yes, even I have got it pretty bad.

You never know when he'll show up.
He gives you plenty of trouble.
I guess he's just a no 'count pup.
But, I wish that he were double.

He's a tramp. He's a rover!
And there's nothin' more to say.
If he's a tramp, he's a good one,
And I wish that I could travel his way,
Wish that I could travel his way,
Wish that I could travel his way."

Not Deer

  Spookable Medium: digital painting "...and then it stood on its hind legs."