Stopping by Wright Woods on a Snowy Evening

During a winter month five years ago, I took a photograph of this scene at our neighborhood Wright Woods park in Lincolnshire, Illinois. With that photo, I created a knife painting in oil on an 8.5  by 11-inch canvas. This was one of my initial attempts with knife painting.

Tulips in bloom

 This is a black and white artwork of tulips using white Prisma color pencils on black 8.5 x 11 inches pastel paper. I was inspired by this subject while visiting the tulip festival in Holland, Michigan in 2010. 

Still life

 This is a still life done on 8.5  by 11 inches pastel paper inspired by Ikebana art forms. I used Prisma and Faber Castell colored pencils to complete this art.

Portrait of a Young Girl

 

I did this portrait in oil on a 11 by 14" canvas. This work was inspired by Flemish artist Peter Paul Ruben's 1616 masterpiece"Portrait of a Young Girl". I completed this work in 2011 while attending an oil painting workshop in Sterling Hall at Lake Forest, IL. It was a challenging project for me to match the skin tones with the original work. Apparently, in the painting, the young girl is Ruben's 12 year old daughter Clara Serena.