Friday, September 26, 2008

What kind of empath are you?











You Scored as Artist

You are an Artist Empath, one who creates their own reality and infuses the realities of others with your energy & emotions. You are poetic and sensitive. You turn your feelings into creations and share them with the world. Everything you touch turns to song and is freed by the color of your eyes. Your spirit dances with the winds and paints delight in the evening sky. (from the "Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Empaths/)








Artist


75%






Judge


70%






Precog


65%






Healer


65%






Traveler


55%






Fallen Angel


50%






Universal


45%






Shaman


45%




Sunday, September 21, 2008

Four Lines Again


It took me all day to get these two sketches. Now, if I could learn to apply the same meticulous effort, the attention to detail to each and every stroke in my other work, I'd be a damn good painter.

Coming up, a horse, a cat, and a dog in four line format. Also on the list is a man, a baby, a flower, probably some other animals, and I am open for suggestions. :-)

Four Lines


I was browsing some art sites and happened across some Picasso and Matisse. I was impressed at how spare they could be, capturing the essence of a thing with just a few simple strokes of a pen. Soooo, I thought I'd try it myself.

Here are the rules:

Four simple lines
No shading, no color, no variation in width of the stroke.
Each line drawn in one long in one long continuous freehand stroke.
Each work to consist of four perfect strokes; mess up the fourth one, you start over.
No erasers, do-overs, no digital cleanup allowed.

It's a lot harder than it seems. You have to capture what the object feels like, not its appearance.

I went through a lot of paper, maybe a hundred attempts to get one acceptable sketch. Of course, I've not yet gotten a perfect one. :-)

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Blake


Blake is simply the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in print, film, or in person, bar absolutely none. The most compelling argument for human cloning to ever draw breath.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Abstract


Just playing with color - worked for Rothko

SheepSkull

SheepSkull

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Pumpkin

Gauntlet


Defend New Orleans

Draco

Draco

Veronica



St. Anthony


A church in the Midwest

Sargeant



Self-Portrait, from a very old photo

Helm



Mehitabel



Mehitabel - archy knows she's a Nawlins lady.