Second Sheep

This is the sheep I am going my more traditional route of ink and watercolor. this is step one,  the inking.

Ink/Charcoal Sheep

I wanted to try something different so this piece I inked first then added charcoal. I used cold press watercolor paper. Not a good surface for charcoal. I am not happy with the results but at least I tried and I can now stop thinking about this combo and move on.

Piggy 2

Okay, I gave in and will be posting on this blog again. I like this format better than the facebook one but I have a lot of followers on FB that I do not have here. Oh well, the egotist in me says post me work everywhere!  :)

The pigs on paper are all done. On to sheep.

Facebook Page

I finally took the plunge and started a facebook artist page. Here is the link

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Randy-Carboni/439471092854138

I will be posting my future work there. Please go check it out. Thank you.

Piggy 2

Jumping right into the second of this series. I had planned four but knocked it down to two. I want to change directions a little after this. I am not happy with the results of working on the newspaper but am willing to give it one more try.

This is the watercolor layer. I tried leaving more newspaper uncovered to keep the piece lighter. Next up, acrylics.

Piggy Done

Just finished the first of this series. I'm not crazy about this piece but I can't put my finger on why. I stopped at this point because I didn't want to overwork it and make it worse. And, of course, there have been times where I wasn't happy with the piece and it ended up being a fan favorite. I hope this will be one of those cases.

Watercolor added

As I was adding the watercolor to this piece I remembered why I stopped working on newspaper. I hate it! The paper sucks up the watercolors and dried my brush quickly. It is difficult to work with. On the up side I think this looks pretty good. I was on the fence about stopped here and calling it done. But I think the addition of acrylics will make it better.

Pigs

Since my farm animal pieces are proving to be popular and I enjoy working with them, I am going to stay with that theme for the moment. I was looking back at my paintings on newspaper and liking that look so here are some more. Two paintings of pigs.

First I use matt gel to glue the newspaper on canvas board. Then I sketch out the image in pencil. Then I ink. Next I will add watercolors then acrylic.