This is an acrylic painting I started for my painting class. We had to darken our canvas and use the dark ground as the tree trunks and limbs, and then we were supposed to fill in the negative space. There was so much foliage and different altitudes looking out across a gulch. I am not […]

This charcoal drawing is a negative space drawing of the forks on a bike I photographed with a reverse out of the tread pattern before it disappeared into shadow. Unfortunately, I didn’t really think out my composition all that well and the tread looks odd. This type of drawing is really challenging due to the […]

This is a homework assignment that really tested my understanding of both light and color and their effects on shadows and near objects, and on the use of acrylic paint as a medium. I really need more experience painting with acrylics! Every time I tried to correct flaws caused by trying to paint over insufficiently […]

This is a painting of fake fruit and a fake radish. It was a very challenging subject to paint because I had to fight the tendency to try to make the fake fruit look real. The class ended before I could finish, so I ended up trying to finish it with a picture of the setup taken with my cellphone. I […]