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 […]
So in my last post by I mentioned that my idea for this painting evolved into having Frank Sinatra and Elvis appear to be two unknowns playing in a piano bar trying to make it into the music world. I originally had Elvis wearing a black jacket then at the end I changed it to white. […]
In my last blog I mentioned I wanted to do a painting of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley playing music together. So at this point I already had the image of Frank Sinatra. He was going to be playing the piano with a cigarette in his mouth. I was very happy with that. I didn’t […]
I’m not sure why but I got a feeling and desire to paint on a big canvas Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley playing together. At first I wanted to do them both older playing in a big arena. As time went on my idea of how I wanted to do it changed. It felt as […]
In the beginning of doing this portrait I set out an intention to have it come out to capture her essence. I was doing this at night after work. It took me about 30 nights working on it a little at a time. I am very pleased with the end result. I had this sold […]