My newest pieces

Here are my recent pieces of art.

I have been working with color pencils recently. Learning how to shade with them.

Using color pencils along with a regular 2B pencil.

Trying out a rectangle shaped face and long nose.

My second time trying to drawing a male portrait.

Almost decided to add shading and color to this one, but decided that I would stick to the very basics.

I skipped all the shading and just concentrated on getting the face right.

This I did for an Online art class I'm taking learning the basic values on a face. This was my first time only using different shades of gray to make a face. 

Values

  

My sister gave me the idea to try silhouettes. She has been doing some and I thought they were really cool,

so I decided to give it a try.

Silhouette practice 

My sisters silhouette.

My silhouette

I love drawing a bunch of different shapes and connecting them when I am listening to people talk.

I used green color pencil on this one

I used Black pen on this one

And on this one I used a 2B pencil

It is always super interesting to go through and look at all different types of art, and what makes them different. And how there is no right or wrong way to make art.

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Beautiful winter day in the Columbia River Gorge

It was such a beautiful week this past week that I just had to take some pictures of the beautiful landscape here in the Columbia River Gorge.

Mt. Adams

mountains just above Bingen 

The Columbia River, down stream (Washington side)  

The Columbia River, down stream (Washington side)

the Mountains above Hood River to the east

Sunrise behind Dog Mountain

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Owl Collage

I started taking an art class with our homeschool group. This is one of the projects I just finished doing with the class. We used magazine pages, colored paper, graphite paper, glue, and scissors. Everyone in the class go too choose an animal reference picture, and a whole bunch of magazine pages. My reference picture came out of animal calendar. As soon as I saw this picture I said "That is the one I am doing."

My reference picture  

 The teacher of the art class said to look for the big shapes in your pictures first, because looking for all the small shapes will become overwhelming and will make you feel like the project is way too difficult for you. I started out with two cutouts: the main part of the body and the stick.

The main part of the body 

I then started going a little bit more advanced. I added four more cutouts: the head, wing, the little hourglass shape, and then there is also a little white next to the stick that represents part of the owl's leg. 

Detail adding 

This is when the owl is almost completed. I added the foot and a few different layers on the wing. I also added the eyes and beak of the reference picture. 

  

 Mostly finished 

Here my owl is finished.

finished

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My progress through Sketching faces and portraits

Okay so I have never taken the time to sit down and write any thing on this blog. Part of the reason for that is because I forgot I even made it. So I am now going to try to get a few posts up so that it is not so empty.

I have been working on sketch faces. I personally don't like all of them but I have fun drawing them. Most of my sketches that I don't really like end up growing on me.


SO here's what I was doing before I really started working on my sketches. I was leaning towards the  Japanese Styles Manga: Shojo, Shoujo, Shounen, Kodoma, Chibi, and Redisu. Using those styles and mixing them and combining.

Mixing styles

mixing styles

Mixing styles 

Staying more Shojo

 Then I started going for a little more realistic sketches. I still went for big eyes and some of the different manga traits.

a little more realistic

 

a little more realistic

After doing some more realistic sketches I started deciding to go even more realistic and giving my portraits more feeling. As I keep sketch I slowly am noticing a difference in my art.

first time trying new idea

second time 

third time

fourth time

fifth time 

sixth time

seventh time