Todays work - Fathers Day Cartoons

Ok so today I have been creating cartoons with fathers day in mind. These will have sayings to go with them on my store later on. But this is just the art work behind it. I first did these in graphite as sketches and then took a photo and uploaded them to the PC. Once I did that I then printed them of on watercolour paper which of course did the inking for me. Then using watercolours I painted them and took photos again once they were dry. I then uploaded them cropped the edges and then put them into paint where I edited them a little to get the end result.

Ducks

Last night was playing around with the pastels while looking at one of the photos I took on my road trip not long back. Now I didn't wish to give this the exact look of the original photo as I wanted to have a rough type of a look too, but sticking with the original concept of the photo. Now I used soft Pastel to do this one with the added use of water to help provide texture.

A3 on Watercolour paper

Soft Pastel Experiment

Today I decided to do a little experiment with soft pastel using water on a brush to blend it just to see how it would come out. I also used watercolor paper to see how it would like the texture. What I found was it loved the texture of the paper and adding water helped to get a much better texture on the page but also meant that the pastel didn't lift as easy of the page. I did two trials and this was the outcome.

Gipsland Area - Soft Pastel - Watercolor paper A3

Abstract Flowers - Soft Pastel - Watercolor paper A3

Gipsland Area - Farm Shead Oil 18" x 24" MDF Board

This one is painted from a photo my Daughter Julz took when we went on a long country drive on the 14 of March 2009. Thanks Julz.

Colours used - Archival Professional Artist Oils

Titanium White

Permanent Sap Green

Chromium Green Oxide

Paynes Grey

Yellow Green

Raw Sienna Dark

Royal Blue

Prussian Blue

Naples Yellow