I did this portrait of my mom a few years ago. It is not my best because I didnt have a digital picture of her. The most of the pictures I had of her were from the 80s and 90s. Without a picture being real clear its hard for me to put in alot […]
In this post I just wanted you to know me a little better. When I’m not doing art and trying to grow my art career I do landscaping. That’s my business. I appreciate having it but at the same time I’m exited to expand my art business. I didn’t start doing art until I was 38. That […]
Im starting to take orders for Christmas gifts. I really love capturing the essence of people and animals. I want to take on as many customers as possible. A custom portrait of your pet or of any person on 11 x 14 in color or black and white is $250. My prints of any of […]
This one here is just a quick touch up. I wasn’t happy on how Elvis face came out before. It was to white. I had a hard time because Elvis eyes were closed, it was hard getting it to look like him. I’m good with how I have it now. Sometimes I play around with […]
The picture on the right is the first Jesus picture I drew. I used pastels. I was doing art portraits for about a year when I did it. I thought it was good at the time. About two years went by and I was getting better so I went back to this picture and realized […]
One of the great things about being an artist is, you know its so much more than just picking up a brush or pencil. I have noticed for me it is intention, trust and focus. In this picture I wanted to have a ? vv” blue background but I couldnt find what I was looking […]
A few years back I had this crazy idea to draw portraits of people and have them look as close to a real photograph as possible. I wasnt good at drawing or painting. My sisters were but not me. After reading a few books on how powerful focus is and applying focus will allow you […]
When doing Robbin Williams portrait besides wanted it to look like him I wanted to capture his love so it can be felt that is him. So that was my intention I set. I then drew him This was done on 11 x 14 paper. I used pencil and charcoal. I wasn’t as advanced as […]
After doing many portraits on 11 x 14 paper I wanted to change it up a little. This time I was going to use a canvas. I wanted to make it bigger. At this time I was comfortable doing portraits with water color pencils. I liked water color pencils because it gave me the control […]
A few years back my dad had asked me if I could do a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. He was doing a speech on Abraham Lincoln in Toast Masters and thought it would be great if I would do his portrait. My dad sent me the image of Abraham Lincoln that he wanted me to […]
