In Progress Painting

This is the basic tone. I rarely work on a plain white canvas, but I'm doing so in this one. I need this painting to look as realistic as possible. So I'm going to push my dark tones as dark as possible, and my light tones as light as I can without it coming off as cartoonish. For this painting, I'm using a mixture of Titanium white, Prussian Blue, Cadmium Orange, Mars Black and Raw Umber.

In Progress Painting

Preliminary sketches for my latest painting.

Bryan's Cars

What a trip down memory lane!! A friend of mine and her husband used to live in Virginia. They moved down to Louisiana and about a month ago, I had the opportunity to visit them. He showed me these drawings I did back in 2006 with a marker and graphite. He had some old photos of cars that he grew up with that meant something to him and wanted me to capture them in an artistic fashion. I had forgotten all about them. What a treat! I love it when people value my artwork. The reason I say that is because I've met people who either got rid of my artwork or damaged it. People like Bryan & Toni Harrison - great people!!

Esther's Orchids

This painting was for a very dear friend of mine who absolutely LOVES orchids. After putting the piece together, spending about two months of painting, it was then that I realized that these are not orchids, but Bleeding Hearts. Well, the name stuck, and that's what this is known as - 'Esther's Orchids.'

In Progress Painting

In Progress Painting

Esther's Orchids - In Progress

This is the sketch for a painting that I did for a dear friend of mine.