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Took the time to scan the fox and the wolf

First real go at the new colored pencils

So here is a new wolf portrait I did. I cheated a little in this one in that I kept the eye color from my reference photo. By this age, wolves' eyes have gone from blue to brown, but the eye in the reference grabbed me so much that I had to put it in there. I played around with a lot of purples and blues in this fur tone, just for the sake of seeing how they acted, and then blended greens and yellows together in the background in an attempt to bring out the yellow tones in the fur. I'm still "getting there" with these colored pencils, but as they say it is practice, practice, practice.

I'm currently in Houston right now (if you note my website, it says I am based in both Houston and Edmonton, to cater to both USA and Canada), but as soon as I get back to Canada I am really going to hit up the art store and get a bunch of single Prismacolors. I think I'll have to pick up a few whites and blacks, those are ALWAYS the first to go, and then some different brown and grey tones as I am mainly going to be working with animals. Maybe some skin tones too, but we'll see how broke this artist gets before then! I really am loving this colored business, I haven't touched graphite for a couple weeks now, but I do love that too. I'll just have to work at both.

So, here is the "incorrect" wolf!

Saying goodbye to Crayola and hello to Prismacolor!

So here's most likely one of the last Crayola projects. Yet one more piece of childhood to let go, hey? I ended up getting a box of Prismacolor pencils, which I hear high praise of everywhere, and a box of Koh-I-Noor woodless colored pencils, which I have never heard of before. Both feel great to work with!

So here is the fox picture. I plan on selling this one, and when I decide on a pricing system for colored pencils I will post that as well.



So, my first thing with the Prismacolors was a leopard eye study. I had a look at an online tutorial by big cat artist Christina Langman and decided to play around with a few colors. This woman's colored pencil artwork has floored me on a few occasions, so my work is nothing in the light of hers, but I was pretty impressed with myself, given my first-time attempt!



Once again, thank you Christina for the tutorial!

More Crayola fun - Horse Eye Study

So every once in a while, every artist needs to sit down and do one study or another. Because I enjoyed my last adventures with Crayola pencil crayons, I decided to explore deeper into the world of colored pencils. I've been meaning to invest in some Prismacolor pencils for a long time now, but as 99.9% of all of my commissions and works are graphite, I've never gotten around to it.

So I've decided to take the time to properly learn about proper coloring and layering. You never know, maybe something will come of it!

I started with what has always been a problem for me, the eye. I found a horse eye tutorial online for colored pencils, so this really isn't just from me, but I loved the result so much that I decided to share.



It's not very big, only about 4 x 4 inches. But I really do love what came of it.

Fun with Crayola!

Who said art is expensive? Some standard art paper, a normal HB pencil and some Crayola pencil crayons and voila!

A piece of a Cutting Horse commission

You'll be seeing a lot more cutting horses on this end! I just recently got in contact with someone who has gotten me to do a couple of cutting pieces, and there will be more to come.

Generally I don't post commissions with people in them, not the full ones anyways. So here's a look at just part of the new piece: