Pastel Landscapes

I recently visited my grandparent's house for American Independence Day. While I was there I took out my hard pastels and did these two drawings. This here on the left was done in about 50 minuets.

The second drawing was done in an hour and a half.

Tree with Osprey Now for Sale!

My landscape "Tree with Osprey" is now for sale on my Etsy. Check it out here. You can also see some close ups of the piece there.

Sketchbook (Day 10)

I've reached ten days with my daily sketchbook pages! I'm happy about that. 


The other day I was watching this Documentary about Vincent Van Gogh, and I decided to try and emulate some elements of his style while watching. He often uses dark blue for outlines and clumps leaves together in an interesting way. I'm happy with how the leaves turned out, but the clouds got to soft, and the color on the ground doesn't look right. 

Tree with Osprey Process shots

I'm still going to post my daily sketchbook page later, but right now I just wanted to post some process work of a project I'm working on right now. I did some thumbnails of potential images, and decided to do the one on the top right. 




I then began the piece: this tree with an Osprey eating a fish in one of the upper branches. I decided to go with a cooler color palette with some warm hints. I am planning to spend another 2-3 hours on this and will post the final when I am done.