Inktober day #3

#inktober day 3 in which I have a confusing line drawing that turns in to an ink wash painting.

Inktober day #2

Post Cards

 A while back some one asked me about post cards.

Believe it or not it is still one of the Best ways to contact publishers.

Some like emails but some don't, so to be on the safe side send a postcard.

Now I am not an expert, as I said in one of my last posts, I really wish I had taken graphic design while I was in college, but I didn't so text all guess work for me. But I wanted to share some of my process using one of my current post cards as an example.

I take my favorite painting and I bring it in to Indesign. I am sure there are many ways to do this but this is the simplest for me.

I like to put a boarder around it and Kimberli Studio on the front so that my studio name is associated with the image right away.

On the back I put my studio name again and my contact information. When I send them by mail I write a little note to the publisher.

If you would like to look at more artist post card then take a look at these amazing artists postcards Cory Godbey and Teagan White.

I hope all this is helpful.

PS. I now have a Face Book page for my art https://www.facebook.com/kimberlistudio

Percy Jackson Fan Art?

I am working on some new pieces for the good ol' portfolio, This is the first of five that I will be working on over the next little while.

Check out my Website www.kimberlistudio.com

Amazon

The children's book I illustrated is now on Amazon!

It is a book about Mormon Pioneers, specifically a member of the Willy Martin handcart company. It was fun to work on I love to draw nice dresses and back in those days that is all women wore.

just another WIP

I thought I would post something just to prove that I am still alive.

Winter

 This is a little study I did today, in my quest to get the perfect blend of water colors and digital "paint".

Things went a bit differently then usual because I am also experimenting with watercolor pencil. I painted with very minimal pencil marks at first... which is a rarity, I don't even remember the last time I water colored with out inking it first.

Above is with pencil lines over the traditional painting.

And last is my digital paint over the watercolor... I feel like I got a more traditional feel with the pencil lines and am happy with that... I just always wish I had more time to really finish these little projects.  Ohh well that is life.

Sneak Peek

Again I have been really bad about updating my blog, and I don't even have the excuse of traveling this time so... I wanted to share these little details of a...

Scottish Terrier

and a....

Bubble Pipe

I will most likely post the rest of the image later in the month.

I finished this a while ago, you may recognize a detail of Aslan that I posted earlier but since I updated my website and put this on their I might as well post it hear as well. And speaking of Websites, I did update it so check it out www.kimberlistudio.com

Beorn

I am a self proclaimed Hobbit geek, so when I found out about a hobbit fan art contest, that is being judged by Alan Lee, I just had to do a piece to submit.

Native Americans

A WIP of some native americans.

This is a sketch that I decided to color.

My friend over at Victorian Haus and I went "plein air" painting yesterday, this little study is the result.    It was good to accomplish some of my goals about painting from life, and I just have to keep telling myself that one day I will be able to paint a decent landscape, I am doing this to learn, but in the mean time I settle for these little studies.