Latest adventures with traditional media: acrylic paint in sketchbook! I’m pleased to say that the pages hardly warp and the paint doesn’t soak through. Post your comments– honest opinions about what you like or don’t like, all that jazz!

These are nice for drawing warm-ups.

Another drawing adapted to watercolor, drawn during a sketchgroup last summer. Drawn from a frame of some movie… with “China” in the title, I believe.

You have to get out and appreciate nature and its colors from time to time. As I was getting a ride back to school from the beach, I absorbed the colors of the sky, and let the telephone wires dance along as the car moved.

I was checking out Kris’s blog and saw he had some really cool drawings done with Harmony Sketch. Thought I’d check it out for m’self, here’s what went down– it’s quite magical! Almost feels like I’m cheating by letting it do a lot of the work…. Still, the results are unique.

As artists, we can put infinite work and detail into tiny or large portions of the canvas. However, it’s the application of artistic knowledge that directs the attention of the viewer. In this example, the part with absolutely no work (a square left white) hogs all the attention, when all the work went into the colorful squares (which even have patterns of color theory, if you look carefully).