Sketching through some ideas...

In the sketchbook ... End of 2009

Been drawing people...

Drawing people on the transit today. Later i added gouache to the drawing and then played with it in photoshop.

Dried Paint...

I peeled open a few tubes of perhaps 10 year old gouache I found in my paint bag. These are 3 colours i won't have to purchase (cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine blue). Gonna have fun grinding the flakes with a mortar and pestel.

In tthe sketchbook today...

Illustration of my Uncle Saeed.
Final painting:


Computer (Photoshop) color test sketch:

Initial Drawing (Ballpoint pen)

Ball point pen and Acrylics in 5x8 Sketchbook.

Wifey... (W.I.P)

Got the painting of my wife started today...this is about 2-2 1/2 hours work. Will return to it later for the final stretch.
I is done wet in wet (alla prima).
Fun stuff.
9x12
Oil on panel

In the sketchbook

Wifey!!!
Different style of drawing then I normally do...this is a value study for an oil painting coming soon.