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Seasons Greetings!
Image Source: Clipartandcrafts.com Wow! This year has just sailed by. Thanks for all of your visits and comments! Enjoy the holidays and have a great New Year.
Sketchbook Project: Heroes and Villains (The Intro)
(click on the image to see full size) This summer I signed up for the 2012 Sketchbook Project. You receive a book, fill it, send it back, and it goes on national tour with thousands of other sketchbooks. People get to flip through your book and see your process or just enjoy the drawings. AllContinue reading “Sketchbook Project: Heroes and Villains (The Intro)”
Happy Halloween!
Boo! I’m enjoying a Frankenstein triple feature and working on artist trading cards. I’ve had a couple of requests for the Frankenstein monster so what a perfect night to finish these drawings up. Here’s one I finished last night. Have a spooky evening everyone!
ATC Round Up: Crows
Here’s a quick round-up of crow artist trading cards I’ve been making lately for swaps and trades: Thanks for visiting! More art soon…
ATCs: Cats, Cats, and More Cats
More cats for you here. I’ve been making a lot of these lately. I think because I want to make sure that they aren’t flukes or just happy accidents. I’m so amazed by how well these are turning out. For a contrast, here are some cat drawings I drew in 2008: Big improvement, I think.
Pen Sketch: The Cat Next Door
Fletcher, brush pen and gouache on paper, 5 x 7 inches Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden
Ballpoint Pen Sketch: Something Serious
Something Serious pen and paper, 5 x7 inches Instead of filling requests for portraits, I’ve been filling up my sketchbook with ballpoint pen drawings. Here’s one I thought came out quite well. As always, Michael is my ever-patient model. He looks like he’s thinking about something pretty serious, but I think he’s just asleep.
Graphite Sketch: An Impossible Angle
graphite on paper, 5 x 8 inches On the first sunny and warm day this spring, Michael and I went to the park. Michael basked, and I sketched. At first I was frustrated. I had chosen an impossible angle and as it was such a glorious, lazy, summery afternoon I just couldn’t bear toContinue reading “Graphite Sketch: An Impossible Angle”
ATCs: Bulldog Drawing
Bulldog by Mellanie Collins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. 2.5″x3.5″ gouache and colored pencil Here’s a little bulldog drawing for an artist trading card I made by request. I have mixed feelings about this drawing. I think the eyes turned out okay, but it just seems to be missingContinue reading “ATCs: Bulldog Drawing”
Mellanie Collins, Artist 