A Quick Update....

My 13 year old is down with the flu so this is going to be a quickie...I shall return after her fever breaks. Thanks for looking!

Laura

Another update.............

Have been working all over, but there is still so much more to do. The difficult part is trying to maintain the negative space in and among the rocks. It is easy to lose them in the shadows. This is requiring a wide range of values and many layers of graphite ranging from H, 2H, 2HB, 3B, 5B, and even 9B as my darkest value.

Thanks for looking!

trying to get a closer to real life image

I worked on this a wee bit more...added another figure...look for mother and child. I found a half way descent photo editor and this image looks closer to real life.

New update

Have begun working on other rocks in this piece. While working on this I have been thinking about how long these particular rocks have been around and the stories they could tell if they could speak. So in my imagination that is what they are doing :)

Pushin' a rock...hehehe....

This is the most rescent update of Stonedance...I have continued layering up with 2h wood pencil and 2hb mech. pencil creating the shaded area in this rock and adding more details. Doing my best to keep in mind where the main source of light is coming in and that this rock is a bit taller than the other rocks. Trying to create a sense of depth which can be kind of tough being that the view is from directly overhead...thanks for looking!

Stonedance update...

I have continued to work on the concrete in the negative spaces and have started working on the stone textures...layering graphite with a 2h wood pencil and a 2hb mechanical pencil for those darker details...for darker shadow areas in the concrete I have also layered with 5b wood over 2h and 2hb.

Also selective blending with tissue and a stomp and pulling graphite out with a kneaded erasure, and more layers of graphite until I achieved the look and texture of concrete beneath the rocks.

The dancers are more apparent now in the negative space.

New wip...work in progress

One of my favorite artists is Armin Mersmann. I first discovered him at Artpapa.com, but you can also find his work on Diviant Art (Nimra). He is an amazing artist and human being! Well anywho...hehehe...I have been wanting to do a piece influenced by him for some time now...so about a month ago I set up a bunch of rocks...yes I did say rocks...hehehe...on my concrete patio and just played with them snapping pictures and rearranging them and snapping more pictures...I didn't know exactly what I had in mind, but I figured I'ld know when I saw it. Finally, I previewed what I had on my camera and then went to see the"BIG" picture.

Amazingly enough it is not the rocks that I fell in love with in this piece, although I do love them...the textures and shapes, most of them are river rocks that I have collected, but the negative space around and among the rocks that I adore.

This weekend I have started working on the actual drawing...

My new studio....

Its small and modest but a dream come true....my very own studio. My boss at my day job has agreed to rent space to me in the apartment upstairs. I have been back to work since school started a week and a half ago!!! I'm in heaven.

New direction...................................

Taking a new direction....well maybe not so new...at least to me. I had such great plans for blogging and leaving a record of my existence other than the next generation....not that they aren't fantastic. They are the light of my life!!!! My 4 lovely daughters...My oldest has flown the coop...she just rescently moved out on her own. The Christmas Elf is still as sassy as ever and the younger two keep me hopping, but any who...hehehe...I want to include my artwork here for your consideration.