Girl Touching Hair - work in progress

This is an oil painting on canvas board that I've been working on. It's a work in progress. I was going in one direction, then decided to go in another direction. I decided to go for a blue look. I'm not sure what else I'll do with it.

Palette

I had a bunch of tubes of watercolor paint that I've bought here and there at different art stores/expos, but I wasn't using them because I like to use portable palettes. So, I found this palette where I could squeeze whatever paints I wanted in the wells, close it up and go. Some of the paints in other palettes had colors I would never use. I wish it had a few more wells because I didn't have space for Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber, but I have a small Winsor & Newton palette that has those, so if I plan on using them I'll just carry that palette with me. Otherwise, I just use the Van Dyk Brown that I have on this one.

Illustration Friday - Skinny

Illustration Friday - Frozen

Korean Chefs

I didn't quite finish this one. I'm hoping to have time to work on it later.

Korean Chef

Illustration Friday - Magnify

Glasses that magnify the world.

owls

Another version of my owls. I like the idea of different colored eyes.

girl in big shirt and skirt

Testing out the Japanese brush pen again. I love the texture of the Canson watercolor paper. I found it sold in a big bulk of looseleaf sheets in a craft shop with an art section. I've never even seen this in the regular art stores I go to. They usually just have the watercolor blocks, not loose sheets. I'm less afraid to make mistakes on it since I have so much of it.

Girls in Blankets

I was thinking of the artist, De Grazia, when I was creating these and how he sort of treated the body and clothing as one big mass. I used my Japanese brush pen again. I still can't get the ink to flow. I have to keep dipping it in water which dilutes the ink and I get a gray color instead of black.

Illustration Friday - Caution

When you walk under birds, you have to proceed with caution.

brush pen and watercolor

Testing out my Japanese brush pen with some added watercolors. I like the texture of the Canson watercolor paper. I did these while watching Project Runway which is quite entertaining. I don't know if something is wrong with my pen or if the ink is old, but the ink never seems to flow well. I just changed the cartridge, but I've had the cartridges for a few years now. The brush tip is a brand new sable one, so I don't know what the problem is.

IF - Wrapped

Red pencil and watercolor.

girl with skim board

My intention behind this was to come up with a fashion illustration style. Something you could see in a magazine.

How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here

I was experimenting with the color in photoshop and liked these two.

in progress

This is a preliminary drawing before I paint it in watercolor. It was meant to be a fashion illustration piece.

IF - Hollow

Hatful of Hollow
Inspired by the album of the same title by The Smiths

Mute Witness in progress

This is still in progress. I just added some paint to it.

ACEOs in progress

These are some ACEOs that are ready to be painted.

Dancing

I came up with this idea today to do drawings of people dancing and make them into ACEOs. I am most interested in people who dance funny, but they don't care or even know they are dancing that way. There is always someone or several people at a party or a dance that have an odd way of dancing. You know what I mean. They're having fun, though and everyone has fun watching them.

Bookmarks

I am giving away a free bookmark with every purchase at my Etsy store, www.artofkimberly.etsy.com. One of these 2 designs.

Illustration Friday - Breezy

"Oops! Too Breezy!"

It has been a long time since I have participated in Illustration Friday. Each week I look at the topic, but never get to it. I decided to do this one. I should make it a point to participate every week. It's good practice.

Alice

This is an oil painting I did the other day for my painting blog. I named her Alice because she reminds me of Alice in Wonderland with her blonde hair and blue dress. I didn't plan to paint Alice in Wonderland. It just ended up looking that way. It was taken from a camera, so there's a bit of glare. I will scan this as soon as I get the chance.

I like the way this one turned out and it has become one of my favorites.

Bar Le Baltard

ACEOs in progress

These are a few ACEOs that I haven't painted yet. I haven't finished the drawing in the second one.

Hapa Girl in Progress

Illustration Friday - Clutter

Space Clutter

Illustration Friday - Memories

Memories of the old fashion.

Conté drawing

Here's a preliminary sketch I did on watercolor paper. I am going to start painting it, although I like the drawing as it is. The discoloration is in the scan, not the original.

Ukraine Woman

I recently bought a book on Egon Shiele and liked how he used paper with a mustard color background. This was probably the type if paper available to artists at the time because I noticed that a lot of others also used this paper. I also like the way he combined conte crayon and watercolor, so I gave it a whirl.

I watched a movie about Modigliani and noticed that those painters back then all wrote their last names out as their signature. It makes more sense than the initials I use, so I'm going to start signing my last name.

It's sad that so many artists had tragic lives.

Wintergirl in Purple Scarf

This was done in graphite and Prismacolor.

Chuck Caricature

Zachary Levy as Chuck in the TV series "Chuck".

Sarah Connor Caricature

Lena Headey as Sarah in the TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Ned Caricature

Lee Pace as Ned from the TV show Pushing Daisies.

Charlie Sheen Caricature

Blair Caricature

Leighton Meester as Blair from the TV show Gossip Girl.

Julia Louis Dreyfus Caricature

ATC exchange

I participated in an ATC (Artist Trading Card) exchange with elementary school kids in Lebanon, Indiana. The letter and card on the top is from a boy name Blake. The one on the bottom is from Emily. Their teacher, Nicole Hanley, guides them in ATC projects for their school. She put together a book featuring artists and students which you can read more about here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9241275

I was very excited to receive these cards and decided to post them. Thank you Blake and Emily for your wonderful creations!

Lily

I will either keep working on this a bit more or redo it. I like it, but I think it could be better.

Illustration Friday - Homage

I recently saw Into The Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. I have never heard of the Kindertransport before. It is a documentary about the children that were put on trains in their Nazi occupied countries and sent to Great Britain during the holocaust. Their parents sent them away in order to save their lives, but most of the kids never saw their parents again. It made an impression on me so I did these doodles for this week's topic Homage. I may not have gotten the clothing right, but I remember them wearing similar things in the film.

Illustration Friday - Heavy

I didn't create anything specifically for this topic, but this is what I had done recently. It's really called "Going For a Dip".

Urchins

Princess ACEO in progress

I actually finished painting the rest of this, but lo and behold, the "waterproof" ink wasn't so waterproof after all. It bled a little, so I'm going to have to paint the face over with opaque paint. I like this version better. Oh well. Tant pis pour moi.

ACEO damaged

After I did the drawing for this as an ACEO for my Etsy shop, one of the edges got bent so I'm not able to sell it. I decided to go ahead and paint it though, so here it is.

ATC donations

There is a schoolteacher in Indiana who has her students create ATCs. She has asked artists to donate cards for an exchange with her students. She is putting together a book of all of the ATCs traded (students and artists). These are two that I am donating.

After I had posted my Little Red Riding Hood for the Illustration Friday topic Tales and Legends, I found the drawing for this one that I had already started, but hadn't painted. I had forgotten that I had drawn it. This version is a little different than the one I submitted previously for IF. I decided to go ahead and paint it to donate to the kids.

Illustration Friday - Blanket idea

This was my first idea for the IF Blanket topic that I was sketching out, but I came up with a better idea and went with that.

Illustration Friday - Blanket

Sharing a blankie is best when you put it up next to your cheek where it feels the softest. It makes your thumb taste better. However, sharing a blankie almost never happens. You have to have your own.

Illustration Friday - Tales & Legends

For this week's topic I've done Little Red Riding Hood. This is also an original ACEO card for sale on my Etsy site www.artofkimberly.etsy.com.