Wax Bloom

One more session should wrap this one up!

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

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Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

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Here’s where the portrait stands this morning:

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9"

And as promised, here are a couple more close-up shots taken in better light. Images link to their full sized counterpart:

And lastly, compiled for a question from a Flickr user, this is the palette I am using with this drawing:

• Peach
• Nectar
• Beige
• Blush Pink
• Copenhagen Blue
• Dark Umber
• White
• Terra Cotta
• Salmon Pink
• Light Umber
• Sand
• Light Peach
• Blue Slate
• Moss Green
• Scarlet Lake
• Deco Pink (used sparingly, as just a tiny tiny nub is all thats left of this discontinued color)
• Cream
• Pink Rose
• Sky Blue Light
• Sienna Brown
• Burnt Ochre
• Crimson Lake
• Peacock Blue
• Warm Gray 90%
• Black
• Derwent Rose Pink (poor substitute for Deco Pink)
• Cool Gray 70%
• Sandbar Brown
• Dark Green
• Cool Gray 10%
• Warm Gray 30%
• Cool Gray 50%
• Yellow Ochre
• Parma Violet
• Lilac

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nosed and lipped:

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x9″

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Nearly a half-ganz:

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

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I took this with my new Canon Digital Rebel XTi – a 10.1MP DSLR, and another notch off of my goals for this year to get a better setup for photographing my work. I’ll be updating some of my other work with new photographs later.

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

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I’m having a pretty good time with this one…

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9"

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Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

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A sequel to this drawing of my friend Steve Ganz that I did about a year and a half ago:

Ganz, The Sequel | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9"

It feels good to be drawing a face again after all that corn and basket….

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My mom recently delivered to me a large stack of drawings that I had done as a child. They had all belonged to my Aunt Mary Lou, who had held onto every silly childish scribble I had put on paper for the past 34 years.  This one, by all accounts, is the first portrait I’d ever done, roughly 1978 or so:

To Ant Lou | Watercolor on Paper | 10 x 12″ 

My aunt was a very important person in my life. Many of my most cherished memories of my childhood involve her. From taking me to the Natural History museum in D.C. to see the dinosaurs for what seems like every weekend to me, to getting me interested in computers and technology, she was a huge influence on me.  She even tolerated me as a roommate for my first semester of art school until I moved into an apartment with some friends.

 This painting has hung on the same spot on her kitchen wall for the past 30 years. It comes into my possession now because my Aunt passed away in April. This and many of the other things that have been turned up in her home by my parents are a warm reminder of how much she thought of me as well.

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