Paint Allied Arts 2011

This Saturday, November 5th, I am participating for the second time in the Paint Allied Arts plein air paint-out in Menlo Park. We will be p...

Figure Drawing - A Lonely Pencil

This time I almost exclusively used the fat black Lyra Color-Giant pencil. I am still using the Canson Biggie sketch pad. The hard pencils f...

How To Get The Largest Images From Blogspot

This isn't really about art in particular but it might be useful to some people. I don't know how obvious this may be to some people...

Valona Plein Air 2011 - My Contributions

Last year I participated in the 2010 Valona Paint Out in Crockett, California. It was a good time. I nabbed 1st Place for the painting of t...

Figure Drawing - Further Exploration

Here are a bunch of new drawings from the past few weeks. Still playing around with different drawing tools. 10-minute drawing: He could not...

1st Annual Calistoga Plein Air Paintout

This weekend I participated in the 1st Annual Calistoga Plein Air Festival. It was great to participate in an event so close to where I live...

Figure Drawings - Tonal on Sketch Paper

A few weeks ago, I said I would try some more tonal drawings this time around. I started off this session  with the usual Derwent pencils th...