The Gift of Peace

Gift of Peace

“The Gift of Peace” is the sixth installment in my Asian dragon series. It focuses on the blue dragon. A symbol of peace, trust, and know for being pacifying it is a very calming peace. I enjoyed doing the ocean and having the dragon come to life! With only seven more types of dragons left to do this is almost the half way point!

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Ten year reunion look back ;)

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I graduated from high school ten years ago this year. Yikes!! Anyway, figured I would do a look back to what I was drawing back then. I was drawing a ton of hands so I could get good at them. I was getting tired of looking for references and looking at my own hand so I had my friends become hand models. Here are some of the poses they did which I drew in this hand study.

Cougar update

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I haven’t done a cougar for a long time. It has been really nice to paint one and see it take shape and form. The sketches I posted two weeks ago shows how the concept is being put into action. It is starting to take life which is my favorite part of a painting. Can wait to start working on the cougar himself a little more!

Concept Drawings

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These are two of the early concept drawings for my current cougar oil painting. While I don’t do concept drawings for all of my pieces the large oil paintings I always do to try to make sure they turn out how I would like. Saves me the trouble of messing around on the actual painting to figure out the composition. I’ll have to update you on the status of the cougar painting soon! 😀