Silhouettes

This was a quick excercise in character silhouettes. The goal is to give each character a clear personality using nothing but their silhouette.

Stylized Self Portrait

I started this one on paper, then pulled it into photoshop to add color. This makes me want to change my hair color again!

Storm on the Plains

I've been catching up on old X-Files episodes... and lately they've featured a lot of Native American story-lines. Those episodes inspired this image. This was also an experimentation with loose, textured brush strokes.

Cat Attack

This is a picture of Kiwi (our semi-evil cat) attacking my husband. She does this often...

Luna and the ball

After being inspired by the start of the Play Well Art Blog, I thought I'd keep practicing by creating this image of my dog, Luna. This image is an homage to her love of tennis balls and sunlight.

One Brush One Layer

I am addicted to layers in Photoshop... so this was an exercise to use only one brush and one layer for the entire painting. I never quite finished it, but my fear of merging layers is gone! Committing to each brush stroke was much less scary than I originally anticipated.

Walter Chipwitther

This was our first assignment in our series on Character Design at Play Well. We were to create a character with the following attributes:

NAME: Walter Chipwitther

WHO: Wealthy entrepreneur

AGE: In his 60's

WHERE: London, 2011

PERSONALITY: Jolly, full of laughter, enthusiastic man happy to be alive and well.

CLOTHING: Wears a bow tie, smoking jacket and monocle

LOOK: Heavy set, around 5'6", receding hairline