I was honored to draw the cover art for Almost Finished: A Father’s Letters to his Daughter by Justine Bowen-Jones. I loved the touching feel this picture of father and his daughter silhouetted on the beach in early evening has. I used charcoal on a medium grained paper to somewhat force myself to lose distracting [...]
One of my drawings, Sturdevant, has been recently featured as the cover art for a lovely choral piece of music. You can see the online version and learn more about the music here: http://www.elizabethalexander.com/works/one-more-redeemer
Following the familiar theme in this drawing, I am striving to get the deepest value saturation in order to make the highlights pop. By laying a wash of charcoal and burnishing with the blackest graphite I know of, the Kimberly 9xxb, I can almost get a dark as black as charcoal that still melds with [...]
