Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: July 20, 2011
After a couple of graphite portraits of my grand daughter, I wanted to do something different. With just a few strokes for reference, I ventured to paint this fighting bison in water color. What I had in mind and what came at the end were altogether different. I must confess that I am not too [...]
Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: July 15, 2011
This is a mixed media work with pencil and water color of the ‘Black Beauty’ and its friend ‘Fair Lady’. To start, a rough sketch with pencil of the horse and its friend is made.
Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: July 15, 2011
This is the final stage. The details and finishing touches are given. I resisted the temptation of blending pencil strokes on the ‘Black Beauty’; it would have given a smooth and satin finish to the horse. But I wanted to keep the ruggedness and the sturdiness of the horse in contrast to its delicate fair [...]
Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: July 17, 2009
Continuing with the theme of flowers, here are a few paintings. Every artist might have painted the flowers arranged in a pot. In life drawing still life gives the best confidence as the subject never moves during the painting session. The pink flowers is a mixed media of water color and color pencil PINK FLOWERS
Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: July 6, 2009
Pelicans. The mixed media drawing is akin to the little bird of ‘song of joy’ posted a few days back. Same technique is adapted. Part of the painting’s reference if I remember right was a news paper clipping. The final result was very pleasing to me, I must say.
Posted by: A. G. Rufus on: June 10, 2009
This is a simple mixed media painting. But for unknown reasons I keep watching this painting very often and psyche myself into hearing its song every time! I have kept this as my avatar in some of the forums. It is done on a handmade paper with graphite, color pencils and fuji transparent color.
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