An idea or concept created by the imagination and drawn by the artist to complete a final one of a kind masterpiece!
Snack Time for a Squirrel
Medium Used: Artistic Pencils
Description: Christmas Card designed in 2005, also won a 1st place ribbon in two art fairs.
Wolves
Medium Used: Pencils
Description: Christmas Card 2002. Won 1st Place ribbon in art fair.
Relaxing with a Polar Bear
Medium Used: Pencils
Description: Christmas Card 2006. Notice the detail in the fur, I was able to accomplish this by adding both lights and darks with a combination of lines and smudging.
Life of a Duck
Medium Used: Pencils
Description: Christmas Card 2004. Chosen as one of the top 5 in the Junior Duck Stamp Competition in the State of Kansas and was on displayed at Cabela's.
Bobcat
Medium Used: Acrylic
Description: Best of Fair Winner in Tri-State Competition (ACSI). Best of Show winner in County Fair. This depicts the life of a bobcat as he spots something off in the distance. Notice the calming colors and surroundings.
Wolf Puppy
Medium Used: Acrylic
Description: Best of Fair winner in Tri-State Competition (ACSI). Notice the calm life of a wolf puppy surrounded in a patch of flowers. A lot of time was spent on adding lots of detail to the fur and really making the puppy come to life!
Life on a Farm
Medium Used: Photography
Description: What a beautiful sunset coming across the pond in the old farm land. After a hard's day of work what a relaxing view. First place ribbon in photography section.
Sunshine
Medium Used: Photography
Description: This is what I call the life of a cat! This cat is spending time in the bird bath and does she looked relaxed or what? No birds are going to be able to take a bath for a while!
Afternoon Shower
Medium Used: Scratchboard
Description: This form of art is very difficult and it is done by drawing in the negativ. You start out with a back canvas and scratch away to reveal the silver. Rather than drawing in the black you leave it. This is one of my favorite mediums as well as the most challenging. You can not make any mistakes! Once you've scratched away its there to stay.
Notice the dust in the sky; each black spot needed to be scratched around and left, very tetious! As well as each blade of grass needed to be individual scratched away.
Best of Fair Winner in Tri-State Fair (ACSI)
Afternoon Sun?
Medium Used: Scratchboard
Description: This form of art is very difficult and it is done by drawing in the negative. You start out with a back canvas and scratch away to reveal the silver. Rather than drawing in the black you leave it. This is one of my favorite mediums as well as the most challenging. You can not make any mistakes! Once you've scratched away its there to stay.
This was my first attempt at scratchboard and I think it turned out very nicely. Notice all the different texture applied to the elephants skin, as well as the use of shadows by the black that I left. Can you see the alligator?
Best of Fair Winner in Tri-State Fair (ACSI)
Can You See the Cheetah?
Medium Used: Scratchboard
Description: This form of art is very difficult and it is done by drawing in the negative. You start out with a back canvas and scratch away to reveal the silver. Rather than drawing in the black you leave it. This is one of my favorite mediums as well as the most challenging. You can not make any mistakes! Once you've scratched away its there to stay.
Best of Fair Winner in Tri-State Fair (ACSI)
Zebra Tile
Medium Used: Pottery
Description: This was done by panting two zebra heads onto a 15"x15" tile and then having it glazed. Unfortunately when I took it to one of the art fairs they broke it in 3 pieces so I had to glue it back together and had to add lines to the background to hide the cracks. I like how it turned out after adding the veined lines to hide the cracks. Even though they did break it I still managed to come away with a first place ribbon at the county fair as well as a first place ribbon at the tri-state fair (ACSI)
Elephant on Wood
Medium Used: Wood Paper, Pastel
Description: By using the wood paper it gave the background a very interesting look and feel. I used the pastel to highlight the elephant and make it look as if it were looking into the sun. First place ribbon in art fair.
Lines of a Flower
Medium Used: Pencil
Description: This was created by using various artistic pencils to give it the light and darks. This really shows the movement of this flower.
First place in 3 art fairs.
Christmas Card 2001
Medium Used: Pencil
Description: I decided to go with something a little more simple and up close, so I chose to make the Christmas Card of 2001 a Poinsettia. The white background in the drawing really makes the poinsettia pop!
Owl
Medium Used: Pencil
Description: Believe it or not I started drawing this at the left foot claw and moved from there to accomplish this drawing. Notice all the detail spent on the feathers and wood.
First place in 2 art fairs.