Graphite Titled Wistful

Graphite on Stonehenge paper

Title: Wistful

For this one I decided to shade in the face as well, as normally I just work on the main features and I think it turned out good. I love doing eyes............so much depth to them.

Portrait in Graphite - Stay With Me

I know exactly what I am doing when I am modelling the main features of the face but when it comes to the hair, I draw a blank. Never know what to do with it. Some portraits I have just left them as a line drawing, here I added shading as an afterthought. Completely clueless............what do you think?

Mr. Lagerfeld

via the They all Hate us blog 

Nice to see him doing something other than designing.................K.L.

What's on my easel.....

Sketch of actress Abigail Breslin 

Working on this sketch from a magazine...still have to work on her left eyebrow a bit more me thinks. The thing with painting is you can go on and on tweaking it here and correcting it there and one gets obsessive about it - and then finally I have to say 'Stop'. 

Stop and move on Lynda................same goes with life. 

Sketch of Corinne Bailey

Sketch of Nicole Ritchie

Sketch of Nicole Ritchie

I am enjoying our walks to school. We decided to walk the girls to and from school as it gives us some exercise and the dog gets his walk too. But aside from that it gives me so much more.....I get to find out first hand about their school experiences (otherwise D would tell me after a long day at work), I get to walk home with their friends too....funny little people 11 year olds are. I get to hear the rustling of the birch trees - such a pretty sound. I get to admire my neighbour's gardens.. I get to greet everyone walking in my path. I get to peek into "Narnia" everyday. (Narnia is this place under the evergreens along our walking path that is fully shaded and by the water canal. Its this secret spot the girls love going into and they have named it 'Narnia'. It truly is beautiful...serene, dark and natureful (new word I just coined). 

Do you have a place you can call Narnia? 

A sketchy day

Another sketch I completed a few days ago. I used a photo from a magazine and his name is Tony Duran. Sketching helps me to figure out the tones and values. I use colored pastels to add some color - in this one I used grey for the shadows.

Chanel Iman

Feels great to be home on a Monday morning and not have to go to work......anyhoo no time for play...gotta paint, upload the shop, update various media, print...............!! the list is never ending but making art takes priority. Just finished this sketch of a lovely model from one of my fashion magazines. Now I have to transfer to canvas. Have a lovely day people....life is good!