Trains done with Marker

This is another experiment with Markers.  These are Penn Central Electric engines.  This is not my image but was a demonstration on how to capture engines with the grey markers.  I plan to use this technique with my own designs and images.  Failed experiments you will not see, as they don't survive long or they get redone until I am happy with them.

Fishing Boat

This is another experiment with markers.  This is a fishing boat, I don't remember where I found it.  The markers are a great way to quickly get a tonal representation of a scene.  Some artists do this as a preliminary before starting a  painting.  If you can master the tones or the relative lightness and darkness of things you can then master adding color to the scene.

Sawyer Glacier Fjord, Alaska Oil Painting

After a Day in the yard cleaning up debris from the storm, I decided to finish up an oil painting I had been working on for a while but I had trouble bring to its conclusion.  I am about 85% happy with it now and will leave it alone for a week or two and see if I then think I need to tweak anything in it.  This is a point with Spruce trees in the Sawyer Glacier Fjord in Alaska.

Tugboat, part 4

Back to the Tugboats, this was an experiment with markers of an old style Tug.  It was something I ran across in a demonstration of marker techniques and I did it also as practice.

Sloop Sailing ship

More practice pencil drawing, this is a Sloop sailing down wind under full sail.  This has been part of the my practice for the last few nights.

Steam Engine

This is a pencil sketch exercise I have been working on for the last few nights.  So my image is not an original but it is for me to practice and improve my drawing skills.  The benefit is I really do like to draw trains, along with other industrial devices and modes of transportation.  I am only limited by my time and skill.  I am working on increasing both.

Happy Father's Day!

So I was blessed with two Dads.  One was my biological Dad, Richard Suitts (Passed) and the other my Step Father, Richard Brandt, who raised me like his own since I was about two years old.  So I have been very lucky to have them both and I used their example for my children.  This is a lighthouse in Chicago and it is drawn from a photo, my Dad, Richard Brandt took last summer.