Draw, draw, draw

Some recent sketches and studies.

Halong Bay Landscape

Last year, a good friend commissioned this piece depicting Halong Bay located in northeastern Vietnam.

Acrylics on canvas, 20x32in (50x80cm), private collection.

Bigger image can be seen here.

Trying different brands

I´ve been out for a while, for business purpose and have the opportunity to acquire some different brands of paints and papers. This is a good chance to try out like the image above: I used the same reference and same technique achieving different results.

It´s all about learning, right?

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Dancer

This is a quick attempt based on stock photo from Deviant Art´s chriscx1.

Watercolor sticks (Neocolor) on paper.

Jeff Healey

Watercolor on Fabriano Artístico ( 11x16in /30x40cm)

Cat in the Kitchen

Well, this is my latest project:

It started back in November with a very common scene from our cat sitting over kitchen´s balcony.

I quickly captured the scene with an ordinary cellphone camera and did some preliminary sketches:

And bellow is the final piece with a couple of close-ups:

Watercolor, Pen & Ink on Fabriano 5 paper ( 25x35cm /10x14in)

Blues for Elvis

Watercolor on Fabriano Artistico - (6x9in / 15x23cm)

Johnny Winter

Watercolor on Fabriano Artístico ( 11x16in /30x40cm)

Newest Watercolor Blues addition:

Johnny Winter during late 80´s inspired by promo photo from that era.

Dalmatian

This is one of my latest paintings done over gessoed canvas. Very smooth surface - and a lot of hard work on the preparation! :) 

Acrylic on Canvas (8x11in / 20x30cm)

Detailed shot

Old São Paulo Landscape Painting

While I was re-organizing some old paintings I found this one from 2005 timeframe. It was one of my first pen and ink with washes of Golden fluid acrylics.

Estação da Luz/São Paulo, Brazil

Acrylic, Pen and Ink on Cotman watercolor paper (5x8in / 12,5x20cm)