Self Portrait with Graphite Pencils

Happy New Year to everyone. 2014 will be a great year with lots of stuff happening in my creative journey. Here are a couple of my finished work. These are 'Self - Portraits' which I sketched using Graphite Pencils. I sketched these using my pictures as reference.

I could capture the likeness in my portraits. :)

Christmas Painting

Christmas 2013 was very special. Here's one of the special things I did for Christmas. I wanted to capture the beauty of my Christmas tree and the warmth of  fireplace in my painting. I think I could achieve that. It was fun and something different from the usual stuff.

It was a magical Christmas for me as I found 3 gifts under my Christmas tree when I got up from my sleep on Christmas day. I got some beautiful and valuable gifts from my husband which will help me in my artistic endeavour.

Dinosaur Painting

I painted this Dinosaur for my wonderful husband who loves dinosaurs. It was a bit challenging for me to do this piece as it is a very different subject for me. I usually paint flowers, still life or just anything more on the softer side, I mean pleasant looking stuff. 

Dinosaur Oil Painting

You must have noticed that although it is a Dinosaur Painting, the setting is pleasing and not like a jungle. It just turned out like that. 

My husband is a dinosaur collector and has tons of dinosaurs. I picked one of those (Apatosaurus) and started drawing on canvas. The complete background I did it from memory as I did not plan out much. I just like to be spontaneous sometimes. 

I would be painting more dinosaurs in future. However, I would paint only herbivorous dinosaurs. :)

Let me know what you think about this painting. I appreciate your feedback.

If you liked this painting, you may like this one too:

Triceratops Dinosaur Painting

Rembrandt Sketch

I quickly sketched this. I hope it looks like Rembrandt.

Sketches of John Singer Sargent

Copy of Sketches of  John Singer Sargent

I love the paintings of the great artist John Singer Sargent. I thought of copying his sketches, few of which are posted below.

I will be back with some more sketches soon, perhaps, the copy of Old Masters Sketches. Stay tuned.