Brant Beach

 6" x 8" |  charcoal on Strathmore



How nice to spend some time up north with family. The weather was cool and the grass was green...and how wonderful to see + smell + feel the rain again.  Here are a few charcoals from my sketchbook.


This was before Hurricane Irene. Thankfully she was downgraded to a category 1 hurricane. Minus a few repairs and minor flooding, all is well in paradise on Long Beach Island.


: )

Wiseguy

9" x 9" charcoal sketch on paper

Completed sketch of Wiseguy. What a difference with a darker background. Seeing the shuffling back and forth of foreground to background when altering the values never ceases to amaze and amuse me.

Will be doing more.

busted!

Pruning my flowers again...they all seem so innocent, don't they?

6" x 9" charcoal sketch

Either I will go back into this sketch of Wiseguy or start another tomorrow as I wanted to reveil as much of his features with as little light as possible. Handsome soul.