"Macy"

 8 June this piece won Artist of the Year with my Local Art Club! Next I find out if it got juried into the the American Plains Artists contest and will show at the Great Plains Art Museum!

Today I got a digital print done professionally of my picture.  I'm extremely happy with how it turned out!  I think you can compare and see how much of a difference it made.  I'll never be happy with any pics I scan on to my blog, this is excellence! This will be worthy of submitting to the contest.  Anyone local that might need their services www.adtechsupply.com is the place to go. Great work and prices. I'll let you know if it gets juried into the contest.

"Macy"

I got Inspired by my artist friends I drew with yesterday!  I drew a couple hours with them, had a wonderful lunch then went home and drew on and off the rest of the evening. About 4 1/2 to 5 hours total. I got the back of the headdress, earring, neck band and leather strap wrapped around the braid done. The rest should go pretty quickly.  I won't be doing a lot of detail in her shirt.  There's so much in the headdress and earring I need some quite places too. I plan on putting this in the American Plains Artist competition. http://www.americanplainsartists.com/ It's being held in Lincoln this year.

"Macy"

  From frustration to fabulous. Okay maybe not fabulous but I like alliteration. It's great when you just don't want to put your drawing down!  Once again my lack of preplanning messed me up a bit.  You can't put carbon pencil over graphite (graphite has some wax in it). I didn't realize I might want to use my carbon pencil then decided I needed it for the hair.  The hair is very dark and a mass area of dark graphite would have given it a shine I didn't want. Luckily the area I put dark graphite was in small areas nostril, eye, lip and that small area under the headdress above her eye.  I was able to go back in with 8b graphite to get it darker.
  Still wish I had first class photography set up. This is bright white paper but looks washed out here because I can't take the pic with a flash. I'll get graphite glare. Oh well, can't have everything.

"Macy"

I'm back.  I've been artistically frustrated. Throwing away a lot of work.  Nothing turning out the way I've envisioned. So I'm back to my comfort medium, graphite.  This is Native American lady I photographed during the annual PowWow in Macy Nebraska. I tried to do her in pastels and failed twice so I'm going to work some things out in graphite first.

"Belle"

"Belle" won 1st place in the LaVista Art Festival Contest! I'm not sure it was much of an accomplishment. I think there were only a handful of entrants. It's better than the last contest it was in. That one there was only one entrant, mine! Next she's on her way to ANAC in Fremont. One step at a time I guess. http://www.nebraskaartclubs.com/2010_ANAC_conference.htm