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Aug 8

Written by Kerstin Carrion

Late night hands and feet studies. Pencil on sketch pad.

I did some more touch ups to this trail painting. When i was painting this in person, the overwhelming real life details made it hard. Simple brush strokes are the key early.

A little bit of lunch sketching. This started as a head then added the body later. I wanted to see the monsters behind the scenes so I added them later. This is in my sketchbook

Today I blocked out some of the final land mass. I also added some color into the water.

Here's another painting touch up. I worked on this last year, and felt it needed a little more. The subject was tough because of the many tree branches.

Back from vacation, Here's a painting touch up. The first layer was at location, which turned out good. The is an 18 x 12 oil on hard panel. Some of these paintings I like to keep a little loose and not overwork them, this is one example.

Conte crayons a new medium for me. These took a few drawings to get the hang of. I'll probably leave this in a rough state and move onto the next pose.

Another quick stop, I worked on this for about 2 hours before the sun and horse fly slowed me down. This is 30 minutes outside of amarillo texas.

I'm near oklahoma city and decided to do a little painting. Since i had limited time, I'll do some touch ups later.

Recently I've been learning how to make my own frames to bring everything together. I will frame a select few of my prints in the near future. I really enjoy the entire process from building the canvas to making the art and finishing with frames and

I'm going to work on the composition. The drawing is a little chaotic but that's where the fun is at. This is one i started and didn't finish because I'll make another drawing that i feel is better and move on to that one. Then I'll remember the old

I bring a sketchbook almost everywhere so when I'm on vacation and have time I'll sketch. Working my imagination side of the brain with these.

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Kerstin Carrion

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