Still Life
 
The orange slice was done in a colored pencil workshop with Cecile Baird, author of Painting  Light With Colored Pencils. It effectively teaches the techniques of burnishing with color and the dramatic use of light in composing a subject for a finished drawing.
 
 
Orange Lite 
 
 
My rendition of jelly beans in a crystal candy dish illustrates the lessons learned in that workshop.  Most of a day and over 200 digital photos were used to set up the configuration ultimately used in the painting.
 
8x10 Print $40.00 + S&H
(Original available - Please contact me if you are interested in acquiring the original.)
 
 
Who Spilled the Beans?
 
 
The candles picture was developed for use in a beginning colored pencil workshop.  It can be produced using only the basic 12-color Prismacolor set.  Interestingly, analysis in a paint program detects 109,721 distinct colors.  A learning kit is available with step-by-step instructions and illustrations.
The kit contains:
  • Reference photo
  • Stonehenge drawing paper (with image transfer printed on it)
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Step-by-step photographs
  • Two value viewers
Learning Kit CP-1 is available for $12.00 + S&H
 
 
Red White & Blue