Dinosaur Painting

I wanted to practice and start painting using Photoshop and the first thing I saw was my dinosaur candle holder on my coffee table. I thought the shape and style of the dinosaur was interesting and a good object to practice painting. Here is a semi final version of my dinosaur.

Maroon 5 Album cover contest for creativeallies.com

I love Maroon 5 and when I found out about this contest for creating an album cover I couldn't pass it up. The cover had to be inspired by the new album. "V", and had to use your own original artwork.
My design is mainly inspired by the song "Maps". I chose to draw a woman whose dress turns into a design that represents a map. Also the back of her dress forms the roman letter V for the title of the album.
A lot of the songs are about love, a significant other, and about heartache; because of this I chose to draw a woman who is looking away from the viewer.
Please take a look at my design and vote for me.

Here is a link to my design:

http://creativeallies.com/creations/7324/contests/980/create-artwork-inspired-by-maroon-5

Hand study

I was looking around for a pair of hands to draw and I found a very nice photo on Pinterest of these hands. I really love how you can see a lot of the wrinkles and details in this aged hand. I'm always trying to get better at drawing hands even if its from a photo. I find it to be a good exercise to draw them from both a live model and a photograph.

Brooklyn Charm Class

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to take a class at The Brooklyn Charm Shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I went with a friend of mine to the wire wrapping rings and pendants class and we both came out with two pieces. Everyone in the class made one ring and one pendant but they all came out looking very unique. I'm going to try to make more rings on my own now that I can make them with found objects. Here is a link to the Brooklyn Charm Shop, http://www.brooklyncharmshop.com/

New Portrait

I'm currently working on a new portrait of my husband's grandmother. Stay tuned for the progress and the final drawing.

Wedding Gift

The happy newly weds with their watercolor portrait! 

Drawing Portrait Part 02

Once I was satisfied with the dry look of the colored pencils I started to add water, but very little at a time. After the paper dried I went over it again with the dry watercolor pencils to build up more color or to change it. The last photo is the finished work with it's frame.