Various sketches and paintings I have done.

F1 On Three Wheels

Mark Webber Loses Wheel In Pit Lane

Step04 - Painting In Progress 

Further painting - detail not yet added

Watercolour 16" x 28" on Fabriano Artistico 149lb Rough

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Step03 - Painting In Progress 

Roughing In

Watercolour 16" x 28" on Fabriano Artistico 149lb Rough

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Step02 - Drawing In Progress

Drawing using black watercolour and pencil

Watercolour 16" x 28" on Fabriano Artistico 149lb Rough

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Step01 - Drawing Started

Drawing using black watercolour and pencil

Watercolour 16" x 28" on Fabriano Artistico 149lb Rough

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Doug & Hugh's - Milwaukee Trip 2013

My old friend Doug and his pal Hugh took a motorcycle trip to Milwaukee from Sept 22 through Sept 27. Their trip was to see the Harley Davidson plant in Milwaukee. Their ride took them fron Ontario (Doug from Brampton and Hugh from Wasaga Beach) to Sarnia, to Lapeer Michigan, Muskegon Michigan, across Lake Michigan by ferry to Milwaukee.

You can follow Doug and Hugh's trip here:
Doug & Hugh's Milwaukee Trip

The following is a Sepia tone watercolour of Doug and Hugh during their trip.
22" x 18" watercolour on Fabriano Artistica 140lb Rough paper.

Step 02 - Final - Oct 06, 2013
Tried a new technique to do the face and I am not really 
happy with the outcome.

Step 01 - in progress

This was from Doug and his gang's trip in May/June 2013 to 
Connecticut and Maine

World Wide Sketchcrawl #39 - Part 2

World Wide Sketch Crawl

Drawing marathons from around the world. Hundreds of artists, sketchers, sketch journalists in countries around the planet sketch on the same day. The idea of SketchCrawl is that of a global drawing marathon: taking a day to journal and draw all that is around you. Everyone participates by sketching something in your environment (city, home, street) and post the sketches on the forum at http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/

The day is always decided by the web site creator from San Francisco, Enrico Casarosa .

This is the second sketch from my Saturday session.

"Cyclist" - colour version

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"Cyclist" - sketchcrawl #39

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Adora Project

On Saturday February 09th I began looking for something to paint. I wanted something a bit more challenging, preferably including a human figure but with some kind of theme or purpose. I just happened to be checking out some marvellous paintings on the blog site of Ramesh Jhawar and noticed he had painted a portrait of a little girl "Adora". Apparently this was his contribution to the "Adora project", a project started by her father where he has commissioned hundreds of artists to create portraits of his beautiful daughter.

This is my second portrait attempted for submission. The first entry I did needs to be re-worked as I am not happy with the result. Concept I like but not the execution. You can find the first version on the same blog site.

See my journal blog site, reference at top right of this blog.

"Adora - Sleeping Beauty"

Finished Painting in Black Watercolour & Pencil

14" x 19" Watercolour and Pencil on Arches 140lb CP paper

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"Adora - Sleeping Beauty"

Step04

14" x 19" Watercolour and Pencil on Arches 140lb CP paper

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"Adora - Sleeping Beauty"

Step03

14" x 19" Watercolour and Pencil on Arches 140lb CP paper

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"Adora - Sleeping Beauty"

Step02

14" x 19" Watercolour and Pencil on Arches 140lb CP paper

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"Adora - Sleeping Beauty"

Step01

14" x 19" Watercolour and Pencil on Arches 140lb CP paper

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Jack Blah!

"Jack Blah" 

15" x 22" Watercolour with Pencil

Started 27-Jan-2013

Completed 30-Jan-2013
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The intent of this painting was to portray absolute feeling of blah-ziness, Jack is such a fantastic subject to paint as his expressions are worn freely on his face. It also helps that Cara (his mom) is so adept at catching these times with her camera. Priceless moments. This painting was based on such a photo taken by Cara.

I have been going through a black and white watercolour phase for the last while specifically to improve my understanding and portrayal of values. In this case I believe the black and white (or grey-scale) adds to the mood being portrayed.

I am also trying to come up with my way of painting ... I use an original sketch or photo and roughly draw in minimal features (lots of poor vision and squinting helps) to establish fit within the painting area. I then start with the very darks to establish the key features. Then from there I work from what I envision in my head that the final painting will look like. Never be afraid to try new things.. 

After darkening some shadows and shading, adding folds in sleeves of shirt and doing limited cleanup...I declared this finished. Did not want to take the edginess away from the painting by smoothing too much out.

Sumber : http://cyberdave1.blogspot.com/