Geese at the Fair: WIP

I've started work on my submission for this year's State Fair Fine Arts competition.  I'm working from a reference photo I took a few years back.  I saw some geese in a cage in the back of a truck, and I got a few pictures.  It just struck me kind of funny, to see a bunch of geese in a truck...maybe you had to be there.  Anyway, here's the reference photo:

And here's phase one of my piece:

I did a bit of "underpainting" with dry pastels sprayed heavily with fixative, then blended a bit with a brush.

I omitted some of the geese in the photo to simplify the composition.  I still haven't decided if I'll include the cage bars or not...if I do, it will be at the very end...and I may shift them so they don't intersect with goose eyeballs so much!

Longhair Tuxedo Cat and Yellow Flowers

Ahhhh...it feels good to be creating again!  After a long break updating my website and pricing, planning my upcoming newsletter, and getting new business cards and sample book together, I'm actually able to get back to drawing!

Working with the new oil pastels again, this is "Tuxedo Jones With Yellow Flowers," 18" x 12".  The support is a rough watercolor paper primed with ArtSpectrum Colourfix in Elephant.

New Website!

My new website is up!  Check out the new Pawsterity Pet Portraits !

I offer a 30% discount off portraits when you refer a friend...and your friend gets a free frame!  Spread the word...

Just a few more office-y type details to tend to, then I can get back to creating! 

A Fish Called Grumpy

A little something in oil pastel for the kind folks at Wet Canvas.

14" x 7" oil pastel on primed rough watercolor paper.