couple of sketches

After cleaning out the garage and going to the dump (we can't get waste management to manage our waste) I sat for a few hours experimenting with colored pencil and pastel pencils on a few surfaces. Parchment is not good for theses two media. Neither is w/c paper - best seems to be bristol board smooth. So here's the experiments. Two things - the lady is slightly out of proportion but not by much, and the cowboy's waist should be lower. Cowboy painting - 12x16", lady 8x10" and girl's portrait - 8x10". LLL. These are only sketches for practice.

Both books published on Amazon.com

One of the things I miss about our "Art dabblers' Monday meetings" is the great interactions and sharing of ideas and techniques. The latest is the black watercolor paper by Stonehenge - cold press. I used 8x10" black paper on this plant (photo by permission of Loredana Kardia - a cool lovely young lady - whose paintings I admire). This is just a sketch. I will also be trying different colors (not regular watercolors - they are too transparent) from the ones I bought for this purpose. Oh and my 2nd book was just published by amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/author/joehagarty)

even more left-over paint

More old paint uses

What artists do with left-over paint. They color their pencil sketches from years and years ago.

Sketch in between writing, piano playing, and dating young ladies.

Book sketches - 2-point linear perspective

In the 1950's there were housing projects known as "SPLIT-LEVEL" homes. My sister, Clare and my brother Jim bought one of these homes. This sketch is a memory of those homes (in 2-point perspective) and an example for my book. This example will require no less than 5 sketched figures and 10 or more detailed steps, not including the landscaping.

Every year, Connestee Falls Art League decorates a Christmas tree, with the proceeds going to children's care groups. This year, we are painting decorations on Slivers of trees (well maybe 1/2" slivers). Here are my 10 paintings for the tree.

portrait of a baby

I met this young lady in her Mother's arms, and offered her Mother a free portrait of her. Her Mother has given me full permission to post both the portrait and the photo ref, on social media. The first is the photo ref, the 2nd the pencil sketch, the third, watercolor on the 2nd.

Rave Review on "Creating Depth in your Paintings"

Hello Joe,

When I read about your book, I ordered it and am thrilled to have it in hand.  I have moved so far away from art due to my full-time commitment to providing individual literacy tutoring for disadvantaged children.  

Each year it gradually evolved into literally a full-time job of structuring individual lesson plans and meeting 

with children at Brevard Elementary School.  Last year I served 21 children.  It is my hope to begin to build in time to explore the fundamentals of drawing.  Your carefully-crafted steps encourage developing those skills.

Several years ago I took a drawing course offered by Brevard College's Creekside, a wonderful asset to our  community.  I just did not follow up with that experience, so I feel I am back to "square one".  As a more reasonable tutoring schedule develops for this school year, I hope to commit a time to drawing and forming a better foundation for the art I would love to pursue.

You are not only an accomplished artist, but a born teacher.  You consider the goal/objective and move forward in logical, easy-to-follow steps for the student.  Hope you continue to draw, paint, and publish!

Judy  (not my sister).

amazon.com/author/joehagarty

amazon.com/author/joehagarty

Happy Book Launching - "Creating Depth in your paintings - 1-point linear perspective" Available on Amazon.com in e-book and paperback. Be sure to spell my last name correctly: HAGARTY when you search for the book on Amazon.com

"Becoming an author at age 84 was a much a surprise to me as it is to you. I'm the 8th child of 11 children, and have enjoyed painting, music and writing for years, but did not think that I could write effectively. After having prepared many oral and written lectures for my art league friends, one of them suggested that I put these demos and instructions into a book.

This is the result of that effort: a simple step-by-step, easy-to-read and understand book that helps artists to understand the simple principles of one-point linear perspective. This book is the first of a series. The next book is "Two-point & Three-point Linear perspective.""