Kwan Yin

Here is a sketch of a figurine of Kwan Yin. I'm thinking of working it up into a finished still life. I'm working on drawing from life with colored pencils, and this is my latest attempt.

It's my birthday!

It comes around once a year, and I'm one year older.

I've been working on some sketches from life to sharpen my skills. Here's a still life I did yesterday.

I found out many of my colored pencils are not lightfast. I'm going to have to decide what to do about that. I have so many pencils it's a shame to waste them. But then, it's not a good idea to have pictures that fade.

Forgive the messy scan, but here's a sketch I did today. It's kind of a lazy day.

Welcome, March, the month of the beginning of Spring, and more importantly, St. Patrick's Day (which is also my birthday). To celebrate, here's a recent ACEO of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

I've gotten away from artwork for a while, once again. Work, of course, and now that I have some time off, I need to do some housework. I'll be working at the ACEO's again, soon. Part of the problem is finding photographs to work from.

At any rate, as usual, my artwork can be seen at Roxyart.com. I have some aeos up on eBay at the moment, too.

Okay, a new ACEO. I'm sure you'll recognize it as the motif as twilight. Often, things are a matter of working out ideas, and sometimes redoing them. Of course, a skyline picture is bound to be more popular than a picture of queens.

As always, you can find more of my work at Roxyart.com.

I'm doing a series of ACEO's. I'm finding I really like working small; I can finish them in a short time, without becoming bored. Anyway, it's a detail from New York's Grand Central Terminal.

As usual, my artwork can be found at Roxyart.com. I also now have a shop at Etsy, under the shop name Roxyart.

So, I guess an artist's blog talks about the process of doing art. It's not an easy thing, so much of the process is nonverbal. What makes a person choose what subject matter? In my case, something I see just hits home and there's no good analysis of why that is. Color, composition, somethings you can't put into words. In drawing, you're analysing shapes and lines, but not, again in words. So what can I say about the process? Just enjoy the finished work, the process is all there.

I know I've been neglecting this blog. I've been doing work, it's just getting around to scanning that makes me procrastinate. Anyway, here's a new mini...."A New York Twilight".

As always, you can see my work at Roxyart.com.

After putting this picture away for a while, I saw some improvements could be made. Here it is, again. I should say that this is 5 by 7 inches.

Here's a new one in the series of miniatures I will be doing. This is another picture of the sycamore out front, just a branch, in winter.

I've been intrigued by the tree with its seed pods for a long time. It reminds me of the trees in children's books, a little fantastic, with goodies hanging from the branches. It always made me feel the delight I felt in those old books.

Well, nothing new today. Just wanted to remind folks that they can see my work at Roxyart.com.

Finally, something new. I've had to take a hiatus from doing artwork due to a particularly nasty and tenacious cold. Now that I'm feeling better, I'm starting a strategy for putting little pictures up on Ebay. Here's the first one, named Summer Sycamore.