It’s amazing how the stars have been aligning lately. Continue reading “Visions & Shadows, An Exploration of the Unknown”
“The Voice & The Messenger” Will Be In A Gallery!
Awww yeah. This lovely painting I made got accepted into the show “Visions & Shadows” at the Stifel Fine Art Center in Wheeling, WV. The show’s opening reception is August 25th (the day after my birthday!) and it will run until November 4th.
If you can make it to the show, please do! I would love to see you there. You may need to dress nicely, though, since it’s an art gallery show. No 3-piece suit, but like something you would wear at a day job.
Want to see how I made this painting? Here’s a step-by-step post on how I did it.
Thank you so much for reading and for all of your support!
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The Voice and The Messenger: A Painting
For the last two days I’ve been working on this new painting to submit to a local art gallery. They’re holding a show themed around “Visions & Shadows,” and “explorations of the unknown.”
So of course I had to make something for it. (The show is also set to open on my birthday, so that motivated me, too. But shhh – don’t tell the committee that.)
I’ll be showing the step-by-step process of how I made this painting during the course of this blog post. Of course I made an initial sketch in my sketchbook of the idea, but I didn’t scan that in or take a photo of it because… I didn’t think to. Continue reading “The Voice and The Messenger: A Painting”
I’m Hosting Another Mini-Comic Workshop
Yeppers – I’m running the How to Make Your Own Mini-Comic workshop again, this time at Cat’s Paw Art Studios in downtown Centre Market of Wheeling, WV!
This workshop will have a $5 cover charge, but in exchange you get snack and drinks while you draw (supplies will be included in the workshop, so the only thing you have to bring is your ideas).
Cat’s Paw Art Studios is also the home of new and gently used art supplies as well as my comics and mini-comics. So if you’re in the downtown Wheeling area, stop by and check it out – it’s one of the coolest shops EVER.
The Tree Swing
I went to a picnic recently hosted by the Universalist Unitarian Church near me. It was hosted on the farm of one of the members. It was so scenic and so quiet and secluded that I drew some sketches of it. I think this is probably the best one of all of them.
I wish I got more sketches of the house itself – it’s an enormous country house built back in the day when windows had nine panes in them and there was a fireplace in almost every room. I want to go back there and draw more of the house – I’ll gladly do chores for the place if that’s what it takes to stay there and make art. One of the ladies at the picnic said that was what she did, and she made watercolor paintings of the house and hills around it.