Colors in Winter

Winter changes the color palette around here. More whites and grays and browns. When you do find color, it pops. Such was the case with this snow plow in front of this church. The orange plow was so brilliant surrounded by all the muted and less saturated colors around it.

The Rock

A sketch I started in the Fall out at the lake of the rocks across from the house.

Harbor Duck 2

Harbor Ducks

This morning I walked down to the harbor with my camera and sketchbook. A beautiful day - crisp new snow and blue skies.

Gull over Knox Mill

Wyeth Gulls - WIP2

Wyeth Gulls WIP

In Painter 11 now, I'm just learning about brushes and messing around.

The Gloop Pen

This is the pattern of stained glass on my back door. As I was sketching this painting yesterday, I had the idea to draw the house across the street looking through this door so I began to think about how to do this. This is a study where I used three layers (again in Artrage 3). The painting from yesterday on layer one, the transparent glass color on layer two, and the divisions on layer three. I used the ruler stencil and inking pen to make the divisions and then created the middle layer and used the gloop pen (great name, huh?) to make the transparent glass. I suppose I could have used another tool like the paintbucket and set the opacity level but I just wanted to use the gloop pen because it seemed like more fun.

Color Intensity Study

Artrage 3 is out now and this is a study I did while watching a Skip Lawrence video on color intensity - all on one layer except the quick tree sketch to the right which is just to see what I want to put on that side.

Sketchbook+Artrage=?