Frankie!

Here's a 20 minute lunch time doodle. Halloween is coming soon, which brings to mind a number of fun things to draw up. Enjoy!

Sketching at 70mph - roadtrip! 20090810

Took a weekend trip to Portland and I cranked out some quick sketches of our fellow freeway travelers - here's a sample.

Moleskine sketch

'32 Ford, watercolor sketch

Real quick, based on a photo shot at a car show last year.

Body Hammer : : Completed! 20090625

Body Hammer, 9" x 12", watercolor.

This belongs to my father-in-law. He wouldn't let me borrow it, so I had to shoot the reference on site. He' obviously put a ton of hours on this hammer, including bouncing off his current project, '50 Ford COE truck.

Body Hammer 20090622

Finally found my way back to the studio and have started another
painting. This is my first attempt at using a watercolor block, which
I am enjoying so far. A block is essentially a stack of water color
paper that is pre stretched, eliminating the tedious stretching process.

Started a new painting...

...finally!

After 2 weeks split between vacation and China, I was in art-making
withdrawal. I feel much better now.

Sketches this week...

...from my moleskine.
Spent too much time out of town to complete a painting this week, so I'll substitute with 2 sketches out of my moleskine. These were done during my flights to chicago and back.

Tin Snips: Finished

apologies for the terrible scan; my scanner is shot.

Tin Snips WIP (4)...

All right, this is where I stopped last night. Lightened up the overall color of the nibblers and am much happier with the tone. fun stuff...

Tin Snips WIP (3)...

Here's a look at my first quick pass at modeling the hilights and shadows over my dark blue nibblers. I really didn't like the color - much too dark.

Tin Snips WIP (2)...

Here I decided to experiment a bit with a darker, more blueish base color for the business end of the snips. The base color sets a ground tone for creating hilights and shadows.

These colors I layed down fairly thinned out so that I can see the pencil drawing underneath.

Tin Snips WIP (1)...

Since I have a snazzy little iPhone, I figured I'd snap some process shots of the current painting and try my hand at blogging this creation.

What you see in this photo is my drawing table with the watercolor paper stretched and mounted onto gator board.

I took some reference photos of the tin snips (also pictured and handy for reference) and played with the composition and scale in photoshop until I set it up the way I wanted. I then printed out to final scale.

The next step was to create a watercolor wash back ground, which is the paint you see on the board in this photo. I then created an under drawing in pencil over the water color background, then sprayed a clear coat over it to protect the water color paints from reactivating when I apply the acrylic paints.

Friday Art Show 20090311

1931 Chevy Coach; watercolor and goauche, 6"x9"

HAMB Art Challenge 13: Wood (Final)

Final image. Started as a sketchbook thumbnail and then digitally finished in Painter.
I'll let you know if I win...

HAMB Art Challenge 13: Wood (WIP)

Here's a WIP of the final entry...

Product in the news...

The Stanley Flask, which I designed, made the Seattle PI NW Weekend pages...
Kinda cool to see it in print!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2008812989_nwwgettingingear05.html

Side snips, electrical cutting pliers...what do you call them?

watercolor, gouache, 9" x 12"

Crescent

watercolor, 9" x 12"

Box end wrench

watercolor, 8" x 12"

Boattail watercolor sketch

Quickie watercolor sketch...

HAMB Art Challenge 13: Wood (Prelim)

quick digital sketch of a single seater, boattail roadster.

Hot Rod Lincoln

digital...

El Camino, b&w pencil sketch

b&w pencil sketch

El Camino, color

Digital color over b&w pencil sketch

Red and blue standard screwdriver

watercolor, 3" x 8"