This is a portrait I did of a friend’s dog as a thank you gift.

…buying art. Here is a piece I just purchased from the Nahcotta online gallery. It is a piece by Juliet Schreckinger.

I am very excited to have just purchased two pieces by the artist David Álvarez. I can’t wait to see them in person!

I have started working on a possible new series involving the study of light on body parts. This is my first endeavor. I may continue or I may move on to something else.

I finally finished the last piece for a trade with a friend. It has only taken me more than a year and a half to complete the three pieces.

I finally finished the second piece for trade with an art friend based on the tarot theme. This one is more of a play on the theme.

I just finished this piece for a trade with an art friend. I am not very happy with it. She wanted to do a tarot-based trade, so this is my attempt at the Hermit. Most tarot cards I’ve seen are pretty interesting looking, but this one is not. If nothing else, I am getting more practice in.

Here is another in my bedhead series.

Here is the latest in my bedhead portraits. I had fun with this one despite some problematic areas.

I finished the second version of my scratchbord portrait but, even though I did a second version because I was displeased with the first, I am pretty sure I like the first version better. Oh well, it is good to keep trying to improve my technique even if I am not always successful at it.

Here is a portrait I did on scratchbord. I think I overworked it a bit but it is good to work on honing my scratchbord skills. Scratchbord is a panel coated with white clay and then covered in india ink. You draw by scratching away the ink to reveal the white clay below. It is an interesting process, but I have a long way to go before I will get my scratching technique to a place where I feel good about it.

This is the third piece in my bedhead series.

I acquired a few new pieces over the course of this year from artist Valerie Lueth who founded and owns the Tugboat Printshop. I always enjoy the pictures Valerie puts on her site of the process that goes into making her prints. It looks to be a very painstaking process carving each color’s wood block, and I have always admired the mental process that must be required to deconstruct the image to create the various blocks of wood that go into the print. I am very happy to have nine pieces from the Tugboat Printshop in my collection and my brother was the recipient of another piece.

And I was even sent this freebie as a thank you!

I scored these cool pieces of art at Enormous Tiny Art today.

Merry Xmas to me! Now, I will have to figure out where on earth I will put them!

I have acquired a few pieces of art over the past few months that I am delighted to add to my collection. I have been following the online exhibitions of the Enormous Tiny Art and Circus Posterus gallery sites for a few years now. I was able to snag some art from three artists whose work I really like. My acquisitions are shown below.

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Now, I just need to figure out how to add more wall space to my home.

I had fun recently translating a small part of a collage I made into a drawing. Shown below is the drawing and the collage. The inspiration for the drawing is in the lower right of the collage.

So, it has been a long while since I posted anything to my blog. I am finally starting to get back into the studio and I have been fiddling around with a few old sketches just to get back into the swing of drawing. Here is something that I sketched back in 2012 and finally sat down to finish. I am not thrilled with where I landed with it, but it was  a good first exercise. It is around 6 x 9 inches in size and it is done in water-based markers, colored pencils and ink. I am calling it “Stretch.”

This is something I did today. It was done in watercolor and ink on watercolor paper and is 8×10 inches in size.