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This piece was created as a tutorial for doing grass on green paper. Finally I’m getting to the grass. Pic 1 I stopped working on the puppy when I got to the feet that have grass blades in front of them. I switched to my green pencils and made the grass blades in front of the feet. And added the shadowed grass which is beneath the puppy, “behind” the raised front paw, and “in front of” the lower belly. Pic 2 Now I finish the paws and lower belly by filling the appropriate col

The puppy’s sweet little wrinkly belly finished…. I’m not going to do the paws next because the puppy is sitting in grass. So the grass blades in front of the feet have to be drawn in with green pencils first. Then the toes in between the grass blades. My intention in creating this artwork was a tutorial on how to create grass on green paper. “You Are Like Me!”, in progress. 🎨 Prismacolor pencil on “Light Green” Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 13 x 15 inches. 🖼 This artwork will

Making progress on the puppy’s body. These two images show how I “build” the structures of the chest and front legs. Detailed info for Colored Pencil artists. 1 I completed the black areas of the puppy’s ear and neck with black, white, and a variety of grey pencils. Working my way downward with those same pencils for the black coat, I came to the rust chest patches. I wanted to continue working on the black coat before I switched back to my orange and rust-brown pencils. So I

I started this artwork months ago, as a tutorial for doing grass on green paper. Then "life got in the way”. Now I'm starting work on it again. The original will be for sale, in time for the Holiday season. It’s titled “You Are Like Me!“, because the Doberman puppy and Monarch butterfly are both black and orange. Do you think it's the puppy saying, "You are like me!", or the butterfly? “You Are Like Me!” 🎨 Prismacolor pencil on “Light Green” Canson paper, 13 x 15 inches. 🖼

☘️ Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️ Here are two small leprechaun drawings I created years ago for a client to use as small figures in an ad. People who know me personally may recognize that I posed for the leprechaun myself. With some exaggerations to my features to make me look more “leprechaunish”. I posed in a pair of sweat-pants pushed up to the knee and a suit jacket. Prismacolor pencil on “Felt Grey” Canson paper, 10 x 13 inches each. The originals are available for $125.0

I have a lot of art hanging in my house, and most of it is my own. I have looked at it for so long I don't really notice it any more. But every once in a while it catches my attention and I think, “That's a really nice piece!" I was getting ready for bed and I suddenly noticed this one on my bedroom wall. A small experimental artwork of a yellow rose, with gold leaf catching the light. HOW IT WAS MADE: The rose was created with Prismacolor pencils on “Bisque" Canson paper, t