CPM Challenge for July 14 "Blue Dasher"

This was the Colored Pencil Magazine Challenge for July 2014. It was lot of fun and pushed me to think about how to sequence the colors to get to the transparency of the wings. I have been busy working on different techniques lately and even just finished a three day class in oils portraits from John Willer who is a well known and prolific artist here in the Eureka Springs area. Talk about pushing my envelope having never done any oil painting it was pretty daunting but I survived and learned a lot. Especially that I don't want to be a commissioned portrait painter!!!!!  :-)

CPM - June 17, 2014 Boy's Stories

This was the June challenge for the Colored Pencil Mag web site. The picture was a color photo of a selection of memorabilia from the past with a lean towards Father's Day. I decided to do selected parts of the photo and to do it in sepia. Turned out fair should have had a more greenish tint to the photo I think.