Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

Finally the first wolfhound stands on 4 paws!

Right now, I am rethinking the ground. I did have gravel in mind, but I might change it for large stones... well, I can think about it all through rendering the second dog :)

Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

An update.

Sketches

A couple of small sketches of chickens and a birdie. I wanted to do some colorful abstractive figures.

They are just made to try out the Caran d'Ache neocolor I crayons. The crayons mix very well and I love the bright colors.

Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

An update.

This kind of fur takes patience! - but so far one leg finished.

Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

Here is a pic of the drawing, taken a few steps away from the easel it's placed upon.

Sometimes when drawing very detailed you need to stand away from the drawing, and take another kind of look.

When people are looking at finished artwork, they don't look at it close-up - indeed they might want to to see some details - but in general the drawing should look great from the distance of from a rooms length to the position people stand away from the wall.

Gentle giants - Irish wolfhound

I am finally back to my irish wolfhound drawing. It took 2 cats, 3 chameleons, 1 dog and one unfinished drawing to get back!

Grey cat in the window

This is the final drawing from the thumbnail-sketch shown earlier.

The title turned out very straightforward: "Grey cat in the window". Beside doing a decorative piece with all the beautiful colors, I also wanted - subtly - to express thoughts about the cats life.

I hope you enjoy it.

Not visible on www

Nowadays the internet is such an integrated part of our lives. As many artists I spend hours looking, commenting, writing on/about stuff related to art. I like to blog, edit my homepage, follow forums, read articles, follow artists etc.

And I just hate it when people (artist') dissapear from www. To me, it's almost like they died. Sadly this could be a reason of cause, but then you trace a single comment or whatever that proves they are not. But apart from that - they are not visible on www.

I've just discovered favored artist no. 7 or so removed all homepages, blogs, memberships and artwork from the web. A couple still have some membership or whatever, last updated 2008!

Peoples lives can take all kinds of directions of cause, but I cannot imagine myself skip art ever, and these people are certainly skilled and good artists. Now being on www is not a must for being a succesfull, productive artist (sometimes www takes too much time from artwork for me, I know!), but to me it feels like they simply gave up art.

What happens?

sketchbook

Here is a page from my sketchbook, working out my latest drawing.
It will also be in colored pencils.

The thumbs are used for compositional overview, and some value-ideas.
The composition are a mix of my own pictures (my own cat too).

I still need a title for this, but it will pop-up as I proceed, I'm sure.

Books for sale

Cleaning up my bookshelves I found a couple of books I don't use anymore.

I don't like books to stay unused, so I've put some up for sale here, as I'm sure others can use them:

postal charges will be added to the prices.
Payment via Paypal. Reply to this thread for questions etc..
If you follow the amazon links, you can read more about the books.

Charles Reid: "Painting what you want to see". Price UK £ 25. Amazon.co.uk link

Melvyn Petterson: "Dogs - How to draw them". Pocket drawing series. Price UK £ 15. Amazon.co.uk link

Susie Hodge: How to draw portraits. Price UK £ 2. Amazon.co.uk link

H. Rankin Poore "Pictorial composition" - an introduction. Price UK £ 3. Amazon.co.uk link



Caroll Michels "How to survive and prosper as an artist". Price UK £ 2. Amazon.co.uk link

The three chameleons

Here is the image I have been working on using the new techniques from Bet Borgesons on-line course.

This artwork contains from 2-4 layers of colors and juxaposing colors - both new ways of working to me.

The motif is also much more illustrative and all-over-pattern designed, compared to my other cp-paintings and drawings.

The motif itself is composed from my imagination, starting with the small thumbnail. I would like to show a junglescenery and applied the drama-story - yet humorous - of the 3 chameleons all observing the same butterfly.

I did a jungle-scenery in cp before, don't think I posted in on the blog. A more realistic rendering, and much more layering, also intended to show a little drama-story: "Silent meeting". The creatures are gechoes.

what I've been up to lately

Sorry to say I have no new large updates yet. I am working though; I follow an on-line course with Bet Borgeson, cp-artist.


Working in BB's method is very different than what I am used to. A lot of the learned I can use with pleasure, and some I cannot adopt. That's not strange when trying new ways of working. I'll put some of this work up here later.
Not to leave this as only text, heres a square of one of my coursedrawings ;)
Besides working in new techniques, the motifs differs too, being more illustrative/imaginative. Great fun!


This also means that my "Gentle Giants" of irish wolfhounds are waiting again. But not forgotten at all.



Forgotten is instead the papillon-drawing, as the commission simply didn't turn out with the customer. This is the first time it has happend to me, but it sure hit me hard. Well, no time for whining, and I did get wiser when taking commissions - if ever again.

Imagekind prints

It is possible to buy my artwork as prints from only $ 10.99 on Imagekind.
Many sizes, framed or unframed, and also as greeting cards.
...and it is free to have a look :)

Chameleon III as print