"Peppermints", Colored pencil on 11" x 8" paper 2002

Just a study of some peppermint candy done with my favorite drawing material, colored pencils. Since this drawing is pretty old, I'd like to go back and revisit it and make the candy look even yummier! We'll just call this a study of the bigger and better drawing to come.

The Prince of Soay

"The Prince of Soay"- Acrylic on canvas 18" x 24", December 2009

Scotland is home to over 700 beautiful islands where on many of them you can find adorable, fluffy, white sheep. This fellow is the prince of the island of Soay.

This is one of my 'learning' pieces where I was trying out new techniques and testing different styles of painting. I'd like to go back and expand on this concept of sheep. I adore them!

Color Study

Blocks of Colors - Watercolor on illustration board 16" x 18", 2001

A study using only the primary colors to create many colors. There is probably no other [school] project I enjoyed more than this one. My first year at Pratt, in my Light, Color and Design class our professor had us create a grid and then fill each square in with a different color using only primary colored color pencils. A classic art school project, I'm sure; I just had so much fun doing it that I made one on my own with watercolors. There really is rhyme or reason to the layout, I just let the colors flow to where they wanted to be.

Girl with Rose

"Girl with Rose" - Malone Red Clay, life size, 2000

First post. Can't wait for all the potential future art posts!

This piece was completed during my years in high school. I would really love to go back and do some sculpture again. It's incredibly rewarding to build something up from a mere blob of clay with the end results actually resembling a 3-dimensional object. As soon as I get my hands on the space...and kiln...

This was a good learning process too. I had never handled clay like this before (aside from playing with the stuff as a kid and making blobby 'masterpieces' that my parents would then, bless them...display proudly as if it actually looked good). I learned the process from building it up and stabbing it with holes to avoid air bubbles to firing and finally adding the shellac finish. And then magically...yay! It looks like a real girl!