This oil painting was inspired by the work of Japanese artist Rockin Jelly Bean, is 9″ x 12″ oil on canvas. I sketched it out in pencil on the canvas and then began to paint with my small and medium brushes. I had a lot of fun painting this one, especially the hair. Everything really …
Category Archives: Figure art
Starry Night oil painting
This oil painting was inspired by a painting done by Jose Gonzalez, some figure paintings I saw on my recent September trip to Santa Fe and the incredible starry night sky there.
From Life Figure Drawing
Every serious student of art at some point takes a life drawing course in college. After college was done I missed life drawing; the opportunity to fine tune my skills from a real live figure, to improve my speed and style with gestures, the fun of being with other artists in the studio. Thankfully in …
StarPOW! oil painting
This is an oil painting I almost finished in 2008. It had some technique issues, I considered giving up on it and did not work on it again for ten years until this past June 2020. I really put the effort in, wasted a lot of oil paint figuring it out, it was not a …
“Blue Shoes” pastel drawing
This drawing was inspired by an illustration done by a famous comic illustrator. I love to draw people in motion and shoes are always great fun to draw as well! This is a pastel drawing with gold accents, at 13″ x 15″ completed in 2019.
Life Drawing
This is a full figure life drawing I had started and almost finished during a life drawing session months ago but didn’t. I got stuck, ran out of time and let this drawing sit and came back to it yesterday to fix some issues and complete it. Its a miracle that it turned out as …