JUTTA WENZ & HEIDI LIKAR ARTISTS

11" x 15" uniball pen, watercolor and gouache on Canson paper.  Jutta Wenz and Heidi Likar are friends and klassmates of mine at SBS.  Their artwork is wonderful.  They live in Salzburg, Austria.

PAINTED LADY

Uniball pen, watercolor and gouache in 8 1/2" x 11" Moleskine sketchbook  From a photograph and previously posted on SBS site.

ANN PLANTE ARTIST

11" x 15" uniball pen, watercolor and gouache on Canson paper.  This is a portrait of my klassmate and superstar artist Ann Plante whose work I really enjoy.  She lives in Florida with her husband but spent most of her life in NewYork so we know a lot of the same places and landmarks.  This is the first time I used gouache and I like it.  It allows a painterly look and lets me keep the brush strokes loose and visible.

HOMAGE TO JACK KIRBY

Uniball pen, crowquill pen, winsor newton series 7 sable brush, Speedball super black ink, Pitt big brush pens Our grandson Oscar in Holland loves robots so I drew this for him from a panel by the great artist Jack Kirby.

ART LETS THE REAL YOU DROP THE MASK

Uniball pen and Pitt brush pens in Cachet sketchbook 9"x 12".  One of the things I love about art is that it lets you be the real you.  It helps you drop your mask and get back to your soul.  Posted in SBS.

COPYING JAMES JEAN

One of the artists whose work I admire and study by copying is James Jean.  This one I did with a Uniball vision pen in a Strathmore 400 sketchbook.

WORKING ON PAINTED LADIES

Uniball pen and Pitt pen in Strathmore 400 Sketchbook 9" x 12".  A fast sketch tyring to work out the problems of proportion and trying to draw houses on a hillside.  Previously posted online.