Current work in progress - Eyes of Beauty  10/17/2014

12:06 pm 10/17/14 (nose and left eye work)

lips and chin beginning 2:16pm 10/17/14

10:30 pm - more work on lips and chin completed. 

Colored pencil FB group - portrait practice 2014

Jamie - Sam Heughan from the show "Outlander" 9/2014

Sept 2014 - Clair from the show "Outlander"

Perrin - 2014 

This was the first portrait of colored pencil I finally felt looked like I wanted. Realism. I entered it in a contest but didn't win. 

I practice more with shadows and skin by coloring an old graphite work I had in my sketchbook.  2014

2014, I worked on a piece for my son .I used mineral spirits for the first time for blending.