Fuller Xmas Card 2017

Our company has grown to be too many people to draw everyone on the Xmas card every year.  So, this is what I came up with instead.  It's been most people's favorite Christmas card I have created.  

Fuller Christmas Card 2016

This year there was a whopping 21 people to turn into gingerbread men and put on the Christmas Card.  I have told myself that this will be the last all inclusive card for this company.  ...It's just too many people in too small of a space!  Plus I have been finding it increasingly difficult to get Fuller to allot the time needed for the project.  It took about 40 hrs over the course of too many weeks.
(p.s. if the colors look all wonky after you click on the thumbnail, I'm sorry.  I don't know what is causing that)

Messianic Ketubah - Calligraphy

This is the big calligraphy piece I was working on. For those of you who don't know what a "Ketubah" is, it is basically the couples wedding vows and is a big part of a traditional Jewish wedding. Thusly, the text on the left is Hebrew.  The imagery is also comprised of messianic Jewish symbolism.  This was the first time I have ever tried to write Hebrew and I enjoyed learning about the language. However, in the future, I would prefer sticking to alphabets similar to English. :)

Media: ink and gouache with touches of metallic gold paint.

Details:

Wedding Calligraphy

This is a small piece (8X10) that I completed for someone I know who is getting married this month. I tried to have fun with it by not keeping the text linear and making the spots of color with metallic pigments.  It's one of a kind, but maybe I will be inspired to do similar things sometime in the future.  I do have another calligraphy piece on my drawing board at the moment which was actually part of the inspiration for this (however it is a completely different animal...more on that later...).

2015 Fuller Xmas Card

Some of you have been waiting for this.... well here it is: This year's company Christmas Card.  We had a lot of changes in the past year, including changing the company name this past December.  Thusly, I designed the Christmas card as a way to announce the new name to our clients.

Pumpkins!!!

As a special treat for my coworkers, I designed and painted 16 small pumpkins (one for each person). Each one had a note and was hidden in each co-workers office space.

Hummingbird Oil Painting

About a month ago, one of my coworkers quit to open a frozen yogurt shop.  He had worked next to me for 2 years and I really missed him leaving.  So to send him off on his new adventure properly, I painted this small oil painting for him.  I have had my fill of framing drama so this is also my first wrap around canvas painting...and I must say I love not having to frame.

Figure Drawing now @ Taylor's Mill

Figure drawing has returned at a new venue and I am happy to get back to drawing people from life.  It's both challenging and really relaxing.  I highly recommend it to anyone serious about drawing the human form.

Experimental Oil Painting for Flat Out Under Pressure

These were some small experimental oil on paper that I did while on vacation as a warm up to "Flat out Under Pressure" (Greenville's 24 hr. traditional art making competition).  These were very spontaneous without any prep work.  I began by throwing color on the page and letting the image evolve from there.  You can see what I ended up with for the competition and the rest of the work by clicking HERE.  I really don't know if I will do any more of these in the future or not.

Coral Captive

I have really enjoyed working on this digital painting of a mermaid and a sea monster...that is whenever I had the chance to work on it.  It's been in the works a long time. It was challenging from the moment the concept was born.  If you look back in the blog you can even find that it was once upon a time in the abandoned work pile due to serious composition problems.  These problems were solved with the use of my trusty sketchbook(....yay sketchbooks!).

Gardening like a Pro

Chaser- Border Collie of a thousand Words

This is a portrait of "Chaser" the dog that knows over a thousand words.  I just read a book about her written by Dr. Pilley.  It was excellent and inspiring.  I just sent Dr. Pilley a print of this and I hope he will enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed reading his book and creating this portrait.

A weekend at the gymn

New Cintiq equals new sketching

I have a Cintiq (24 hd) now and in jubilation of that I created this sketch.  I'm still getting use to some of the controls/buttons, but I am loving the overhanging the desk feature.  It's a really comfortable way to work.

Fuller Christmas Card 2014

This is my second year creating a Christmas card for the Engineering Company I work for.  The only criteria I was given for this year was to make everyone legos.  So I was left to figure out all the rest of the particulars including the text inside the card.  And inevitably (like last year) we had some personnel changes after the card was finished resulting in last minute revisions.

(First image is exterior of card, second image is inside card & text)

                                     

Christmas Card 2013 -Fuller Consulting Engineers

I created these as part of a Christmas Card for one of the (structural) engineering companies I work for.  The first is the exterior of the card and the second was on the interior.  I had loads of fun creating these and many of the clients who received this card called the office saying how much they enjoyed it. 

Flat Out Under Pressure 2013

This image was created for Greenville's "Flat Out Under Pressure" competition.  It's a 24 hr. painting competition with traditional media only.  I worked in gouache (opaque watercolors) which I haven't used in over 10yrs.  This was a big challenge for me.  I think next year I will pick a medium I am more comfortable with and I will probably work on canvas so I don't have to do the framing at 5am like I did this morning.  Overall, I enjoyed it and am looking forward to next year's competition.

New Sketches

 

Finally, some new sketches for spring. 

 

 

 

 

New Year/End of the year

This was a quickish sketch...the last one of the year.  I haven't made all my artistic goals this year,but reading about Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" allows me to give myself some slack.  If you have never read about it, it basically says that one's basic needs must be met before one can attend to higher needs.  I am hoping in this next year I will be successful in meeting basic needs so that I may be free to be more creative and artistic.

Figure Drawing - Oct. 2012