The President

I have been consistently practicing painting portraits. I tricked family into posing for me until they wised up - so I’ve broadened my subjects to include - well - famous people and now presidents. How unique. Regardless here is another - the present president: Barack Obama. Trust me on this - I don’t know the man, therefore I’m looking at pictures and video in order to get an idea of the complexion, tones that are the person. It is not finished as I look at this and see things that can change, but I wanted to display it now. That and larger paintings take longer to complete - wow what a revelation. I’ll bet I’m the first to write that down ;-)

Potted Plant

Here is something a little different for me. This is a pen & ink drawing which a used colored pencils to fill in the color. What brought this on? I just purchased a packet of Loofa seeds. The thought crossed my mind to draw the (hopefully) resulting plants in a series. Sounds wierd enough to be one of my projects.