Graphite Powder

Rendering form with paper stomp and graphite powder is fun. Here is an example.

Paper Stomp Lady

Composition and Color

Another small gouache painting.

The Old Tree and the Creek

Two Studies

Another pair of small gouache sketches.

Hidden Among the Rock

Sunset at Pine Trees

Simple Composition with a Story

Here is a watercolor with a simple notan but able convey a story.

I Want to Know Everything. From the Movie "Great Expectations."

Pencil Sketch

Small sketch with Turquoise Prismacolor pencil lead with purple filter.

Family Picture, circa 1950.

Planning the Composition

In these sketches the students were asked to analyze the subject by creating an envelop of it with geometric figures and polygons; establish the order of the planes from front to back; draw the specific shapes of the forms and erase the geometric figures used at the beginning; outline the core shadow that separates light and dark areas of every form; established the shaded areas -including cast shadows- of the entire subject and connect the forms with a global hatching that represent the areas without light. After these steps the watercolor painting can begin.

Study of the Planes. Garden Bushes.

 Connecting the forms with dark shades to unify the composition

Dog Walk. Paris, France.

Direct Approach

Quick demonstration sketch for my students.

Sicilian Sun

Sketch of a narrow street in Sicily, Italy. Gouache on watercolor paper.

Moving In with Gramma.

Cottage Splendor

English cottage dappled in summer sunshine.

English Cottage. Goauche.

Green-Blue Harmony

This is a gouache piece on 140lb cold press paper.

Storm by a Certain Sea

Yellow-Green Harmony

Sketching an English cottage. Trying to capture the light bathing the scene. Gouache on paper.

Cottage Green Harmony.