Jephyr Drawing Wins Utrecht Award At 2012 MCC Student Art Show

Hi all!

I was happy to learn recently that my graphite drawing, "Model C", had been selected for a $100.00 Utrecht Award at the 2012 Mesa Community College Student Art Show!

The annual event, held this year from April 9 - 19th, is presented each spring by the school's Art Department. Student artwork is selected for the show by the faculty from various disciplines such as Life Drawing, Painting, Computer Arts, and Ceramics.

This year's show was really good and there were quite a number of excellent pieces. 

My 18" x 24" graphite drawing created for Drawing II (entitled "Model C") won a Utrecht Award which included a $100.00 gift certificate to Utrecht Art Supplies!

I smell a shopping spree coming on!  : )

In the drawing I added crab legs to the body of a Ford Model T and placed it on a dirt road in a rural setting.  I took the assignment a few steps further by adding steam escaping from an over-heated engine and turning into a school of fish.

Here's a pic I snapped at the show.

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Thanks as always for stopping by!

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Feel free to stop by my website.  For a limited time everyone who does gets a free hug!

: )

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A Caricature: Canadian Minister Kevin Krueger

Hi!

So I've always wanted to create caricatures...and in spite of doing numerous "cartoony and exaggerated" faces from imagination I'd still been feeling a bit reluctant to try my hand at caricature.

But I'm learning that if I finally just jump in...I usually wonder why I waited so long.

I keep an image bank of photos, art etc that I find while snooping around Google Image.  I came across a photograph one night that just leaped off the page and grabbed me by the shirt and screamed in my face:  "I'm the one...you must draw me...in caricature...I INSIST!!"

Ok, so I've exaggerated a tiny bit...but I did know that there was potential for caricature in the face I found so I finally got busy creatin' my first caricature from a photo.

I got some excellent suggestions from some friends over at my Concept Art thread on how to improve my final version.  Thanks Syrca and shiNIN!

So without further delay...here is my caricature:  Kevin Krueger, humanoid and proud Canadian!  : )

  

Created using my trusty Wacom Intuos tablet and Adobe Photoshop.

I've already got another caricature in the works and hope to post that soon.

Thanks for looking in!

Ciao fer now

Jephyr

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BTW...I updated my website....and it's still got that "new web-site" smell.

If you stop by I'll make sure you get window seat with a view!  :)

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