drAnn's Art

Samplers

I got interested in some of Patrick Woodroffe's fantasy drawings and made this on Christmas:

 

Yes, and I'll have to explain all this later, as it is pushing 2 am and for some reason the 'puter has slowed down...and me, too.

An Autumn Scene

OK, finally I am in season:

Another Snow Scene

More coming...

Getting Back into the Groove

I'm still trying easy things to get back into the groove of painting after being away for a while:

Snow in August?

Our neighbor invited us to a Thanksgiving in August dinner, which I thought was a novel idea, so I decided to paint some snow scenes now while the weather is hot:

 

      

In Progress at Last

Well, I finally started a watercolor. Here it is so far:

Inviting Tiles

  I haven't "done" any art lately.  Life got in the way.  What is life without art?  Good point, but not doing it isn't the same as not seeing it.  Art is everywhere, including this tile in front of the railroad tracks

More Fish

I've been busier over at my gardening blog and haven't taken the time to draw anything lately, so today I sat down at my drafting table and said, "OK, I will draw something, anything, just to start getting back in the groove."

So here it is, something, a fish:

  and here it is in color:   

A New Avatar

I brought my drafting table down to the new place, but haven't set it up yet. 

  

 AVATAR KAT
 

An Example of How I Use my Wacom

I have a Wacom Intuos 3 graphics pad and people who hear I am an artist often think that I use it to draw.

Well, not exactly.  I use it more for playing online computer games than for drawing!

But it's real function in my life is for retouching line art and photos.  Generally when cartooning I start with a soft pencil on newsprint and then transfer the image by hand to white paper where I ink over the pencil.  Next I take a picture of my drawing with a digital camera.  My Canon Powershot has a 1Gb multimedia card that I can insert into my laptop's card reader.  I open the file with Paintshop Pro (the last version before JASC was bought out includes PSP and Animation Shop) and that is when I start using the graphics pad.

Here is an editing sequence showing how I got from the hand drawn cartoon to a drawing I posted previously: