After a long hiatus from posting on my blog, here are two (out of the four) commissions that I’ve been working on, The first set of pictures are a double portrait commission(still in progress) of Ann & Joe ( good friends of mine, who by the way are excellent dancers). I met them through one of the dance studios that I go to for Salsa classes & Anne wanted this as a surprise gift to Joe. So far I’ve put in a little over 20 hours into this particular piece….
…as you can see I still need to work on all the figures a bit more (i.e. bring out shadows, highlights & detail), especially the faces of Joe. Usually it takes me about 24 hours to finish these portrait drawings, & right now I’m at the 20 hour mark, so hopefully another 4-6 hours should bring this work to completion, oh & I still have to add a few flowers here and there to decorate the piece up a bit. The other commission I’ve posted is the initial stages of an abstract painting using a split-complementary color scheme of yellow-green, blue-green & red.
