Wax Bloom

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 6 x 18"

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 6 x 18"

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No doubt that when you received this month’s issue of Colored Pencil Magazine you were taken aback by the stunning visage that greeted you on page 16:

“What positively surly splendor!”, you must have said.

“Martha! Come and look at this masterpiece of angry, shaven cranium!”, you surely shouted to your spouse or significant other, who shall henceforth be known as Martha.

“I like every portion of this otherwise distinguished publication except for the top left corner of page sixteen!”, Martha most likely said.

And so it went, you and Martha gazing in wide-eyed wonder and/or loathing at page 16, sipping Boone’s Farm and eating Oreos well into the night. You two really were made for each other, you know. It’s a rare and wonderful thing you have together. We should all be so lucky.

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In all seriousness, my sincerest thanks to Ann Kullberg for including my drawing in her magazine. It’s very much an honor, and there is loads of great stuff in every issue. Check it out!

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

Admit it … you thought I was never going to finish it. Ha! Showed you, didn’t I!

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Hey, look at that – a month exactly since I last worked on this one. It’s been a busy month full of things that keep me away from drawing.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

I like the way this one is shaping up – I hadn’t been too happy with it when I last worked on it, so maybe a substantial if involuntary break was what it needed.

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 9 x 12"

This one has been sitting on my desk for about a month now, getting only occasional attention. Up until now I’ve been more or less unhappy with it, and had considered scrapping it.

And perhaps because I was irritated with it I started to get a lot looser and bolder with my color choices, which I have been laying on thicker and more liberally using cross hatching and large loops of color instead of the tight, meticulous circular patterns I generally use. Suddenly it became a lot more interesting to me.

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 10 x 8"

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I’ve significantly decreased the shadows in an effort to make her feel softer … I was worried I about to make her look like an old man. The top of her head still needs a lot of modeling as it looks a bit indented at the moment. I also want to get the right side of the face as we look at it a bit rounder with better value transitions. All in all, though – coming along. The next update should be the finished piece. Or maybe the one after that.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 10 x 8 "

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 10 x 8"

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And now we come to that difficult and critical point in any portrait of an infant where the decision must be made whether to render the top of the head as a transparisteel dome containing the glowing, super human brain of a future arch-villain, or the more traditional wispy pate.

What to do … what to do.

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