A New Year and I forgot...

 Happy New Year Fellow Readers

The year of Twenty Twenty Two - Woo Hoo! Two Thousand and Twenty-Two! What are we going to do! There is a nice little rhyme to get started.

I've got a New Year's drawing for all the viewers - although I missed the first day - it's still going to be the New Year's Drawing since it's the first drawing of the year. (For instance - 2017 and 2019 were drawn in February and March) I actually was painting on January first! So I didn't miss the first day.

On with the drawing!

For those that don't know - I have a series of drawings I've done on the New Year called "New Year Sketch" - I started the series a while back and started posting them on this blog for quite some time - maybe even a whole year ago.

Link to the New Year Drawings Page - New Year Drawings

2022 Drawing - 

The waves are getting rougher, quick get to land! Wait were in Italy - get to a house before we capsize!

There you are! A building from Italy and a guy rowing a boat - May all who view row through the New Year!

What Have I Missed?

Yes It is, no was my Blogirthday on January 10th of this month - two days ago - this blog is now 2 years old! Congratulations for your continual showcasing of artwork and entertaining dialogue to go along with it blog of Esteban Barnes - Happy Blogirthday! Please join me in congratulating this blog dear viewers/readers!

Thank you for Viewing this Blog Today - Stay tuned - A Painting is on the Way!

"Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

Happy Thanksgiving! But...

 Happy Thanksgiving Two days late. 

I wasn't late drawing this picture, just getting it uploaded to this blog, so I was actually only half late. I drew this a while back preparing for a Thanksgiving/fall post, but it's kind of already winter - maybe I'll do a winter themed piece next?

Anyway, here is the fall/Thanksgiving drawing. It is done with colored pencil and ink on paper - 11x17 paper.

A female and male turkey inked in surrounded by pumpkins

There's a little color. Ooh! Look at that moose!

Those feathers are gorgeous! Tasty!

Gobble! Gobble! Nice pumpkin stem.

Beautiful antlers.

There's the whole picture.

Zoom in on those turkeys!

A moose fully colored.

The final product! Hope you like this drawing of this Thanksgiving themed picture. Comment below your favorite fall activity. Come on let's get a discussion going now! You can even discuss a completely different topic if you'd like just get your opinion in the comment section below - make your voice heard!

Thank you for reading (or viewing if you just skipped to the photos) this blog! Share with all of your friends!

Have a beautiful day, night, evening, afternoon, or whatever time of day you're reading this.

Back with more Art!

Pen to the Paper in France

It has been a while since I've posted my artwork here, so here we are. Up first is a streetscape of France. It is done in pen on paper. 

Current Work

I am currently working on another 18 x 24 inch oil painting, so I'll be back with more art soon, and I'll be continuing on with my series of colored pencil saints as well. 

This one below is a collage of the different stages as I painted. I started out with acrylic paint and am in the process of finishing it off with oil paint. I'll just need to touch up the faces and hands and paint the background, but so far it is turning out OK.

I hope you enjoyed viewing this art, comment below on your favorite piece, or explain why you didn't like a certain piece.

What should I draw next?

"The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised." - J.R.R. Tolkien

I've decided to start a new category ...

 Photography

Sketched Drawn Painted and Captured? Yes, this section of the blog is "Captured", the photography section.

I recently went on a trip to Duluth with my family and had lots of fun photographing. I'll post them here and you can post your thoughts in the comments.

 Rose Garden & Leif Erikson Park

I decided it would take forever to sort them so here are some favorites from the trip.

A camp fire from the backyard!

A campfire that got a little big

Lake Superior at Brighton Beach

A photo my dad took

Lake Superior at Brighton Beach

Lake Superior at Brighton Beach

My brother jumping at Brighton Beach

A scene from Banning State Park

Some kind of plant at Banning

A pine branch at Banning

Look up there!

A reflection

A dodge charger in the Taco Bell parking lot

Smoke shop in Hinkley MN

A scene close to Brighton Beach where we found a geocache

Lots of fun was had on this trip. Thanks for looking at these photos, or did you just scroll to the bottom?

And if you are wondering, yes, I am working on a painting so stay tuned, when I have some time I'll post another of my painting.

A Sneak Peak

Our Lady of Mount Caramel

Which photo is your favorite?

Comment below.

Letter D is Complete

Saint Dominic De Guzman

I've finished Saint Dominic for the Saints A-Z series. I wasn't sure what to do for the background so I just went with some shades of yellow. This is the first drawing on the 7 X 10 paper! My 9th saint drawing in the series, only 43 more. Once I finish the series I'll have covered approximately 3,640 square inches of paper in colored pencils, that's about 25 square feet.

Drawing black and white with colored pencils is always challenging for me, but I think it turned out pretty good, maybe the next drawing will be a larger portrait so I don't have to deal with a giant background.

I have updated the saints page - Saints A-Z

Time-lapse Video

https://youtu.be/hOg3xAky3Ds

 

             

What letter should I do next? Comment below if you have any suggestions.

Thank you for viewing this art blog,

Until I draw something else, have a great day!

Egg Painting and ...

 My 2021 Egg Painting

I decided to paint Salvador Dali's surrealistic painting, "Persistence of Memory."

"This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert (cheese) melting in the sun."

"Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia."

The Egg - 

It was difficult to get a good photo because the egg is round so I tried to get multiple angles. Hopefully 

you can still see the whole painting. I also made a page dedicated to the egg series on the home page, 

you can also see that here, egg paintings page.

Thank you for viewing this blog.