My husband and I are working on a collaborative project. When he takes a photo that inspires me I do a painting of it. The last 2 peices that I blogged about were part of this project as well as 2 others that I blogged about in the past.  I thought you might like to see the photos next to the paintings. We’re going to present our idea to galleries and see what they think. It’s a cool idea because the photos are art in and of themselves and the drawings are art in and of themselves. When you see them side by side you see the beauty and uniqueness of each piece and each style of art. They compliment each other and together become a new and original form of art. So here you go. The photos next to the drawings. 

Here’s one that I finished just before Christmas. It’s a prismacolor. I haven’t thought of title yet. I have to figure out what her story is first. If any of you readers out there have any ideas, I’m open to suggestions.

Well I finished another one today. Actually, I should mention that I’ve been working on this one for quite awhile. I started weeks ago and didn’t like how it was coming out at all so I totally redid the background today and now I love it. The forest seemed like the perfect setting for this young man.

I’ve been doing a lot of paintings lately of people who are searching for something. I’ve also noticed that I always seem to do a solitary figure in my paintings. I wonder what it is about that theme that fascinates me. A friend once suggested to me that an artist puts something of herself into every painting she does. Maybe that’s what I’m doing. Anyway, here is my painting. I’m going to call it Vision Quest.

Here’s the first painting I’ve finished of the little birdies I took pictures of. Well actually I did another one but I don’t like the way it turned out so you don’t get to see it. I know, maybe I’ll burn it and make another burn bad art video! That was fun. Anyway I think I”ll call this one Among the Leaves.

Maria doesn’t like the art piece she just finished. What to do? BURN BAD ART! Watch Ria and friends burn her art.

11" x 14" Prismacolor and Water Color painting

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I’ve just started a new drawing for the DeZion art gallery and I’ve decided to blog my progress. I would like to have started by showing you a photo of just the original sketch but I didn’t think of this idea until I was adding the first of the color. I’ll be sure and do it for my next drawing. So anyway, I always start a drawing with just a basic pencil sketch. I ALWAYS use a mechanical pencil for this sketch because you never have to sharpen mechanical pencils. So nice! I wish Prismacolor made mechanical Prismacolor pencils! Oh that would be heaven… (more…)

I started a new painting last night and have been working on it all day today. This is what I have so far. I’m really close to being finished actually. All have to do is finish the rock in the forground and I’ll be done. I need to take a break for a few minutes and go eat some food so I figured I’d post my progress. Here it is.

Last night I finnished my 3rd painting in my Zion’s park series. I enjoyed this one while I was working on the rock itself but the trees were not as fun. I like to use watercolor to paint trees but that just wasn’t practical on this one since they were close up pine trees. Pencil made more sense and they turned out just fine. They just took a long time and it was rather tedious work. Oh well, all’s well that ends well and I think this came out quite nicely. I’ll try to get a better photo up as soon as I can. The sky is actually blue all the way across!