Been Busy...

I have not been posting due to various projects I've been working on in the past year. The Fantastic Strange illustrated novel is in the final stages and should be available by February. For more recent activity, updates and random sketches, Instagram is better for now, @dvonderahe. Thanks.

LaborDayWeekend

Heard a Kenny Rogers song on a player piano...

Scoundrels

"HAHA, YES! Everything is very uncertain I am sure!" he mused.

Lights

MightyAir

Fire the Cannons

But Some Are Cracked

Watercolor Figuresketching

Sunset

Sketchbook

Sketches searching for characters.  Some spark a new story or fit into an existing one.

Excerpt from a tale in development

From All The Things I Did Not Know

Snow on the hills

Tried some abbreviated brushwork and left some canvas untouched to give a loose and airy quality.  This was a good switch and has provided some new ideas for paint work.  Keep light in the shadows.  Composition: 1 thing.  Find a comfortable place for the eye to naturally rest. (This is determined by the size of the scene and how far out one's eye goes to just relax)  Lastly, all that matters, can you feel the temperature and the light?

Figure styles

Sketching

2/15 Morning...then went swimming

Valentine's Day morning-orange imprimatura and people:better painting

2/13 sunrise, morning, sunset

FigureDrawing

Grounds

Textures

Heisler North

Study from black and white

Laundry time

"Come steppin down the stairs combing back your yellow hair"

Beach agian!

Heisler Park again

Gouache figure drawing costume night