What's new?

Lately I've been doing a lot of pieces where I'm using media and techniques that were out of my comfortzone, but the benefits of them has really been great. Not only am I experiencing something new, but it also expands my perspective and I'm gaining new insights with each piece that help me with the next. What's even better is that it makes me even more excited to move on to my next piece.

For this posting I have a commission for a friend of mine who has his own wood working business. He and his wife wanted something for the front of their website when it's done and they wanted it to be rustic but also have a country feel to it.

To make this I stained the paper myself a number of times to get the result that I liked then inked out what you see above and added in some white highlights with a white pastel. What you see is their house in the country along with their workshop. Their wood working business is called WillowBrooke and when they get their online website finished I'll post a link back to it so you can see the great crafts that come from their shop.

For this postings preview of something else I'm working on, some of you may already be familiar with it because I posted prior previews of it before on my facebook.

I'm going a little old school out of my comfort zone and painting a mountain range with arcylic paints, but as I'm doing it I have thought of a few out of the box ways that I can help it look a little more dynamic. It's been a fun project and looking forward to finishing it.

~Patrick