Kat Powell Artist

Unfinished, ink drawing with colored inks, might make this into a painting one day Ink, colored pencil, ink wash drawing of flowering cat A few older drawings from May and June 2015

done back in Nov 2014 with pencil and digital color http://society6.com/katpowell/rod-of-asclepius-8d2#1=45 http://www.redbubble.com/people/katpowell/works/13081852-rod-of-asclepius

colored pencil, pencil, ink on lightly textured paper, done back in Aug 2014

I've been work for a very long time on this one image. Unfortunately, it seems after i get the penciling, composition, light source, and shading figured out i get stuck on the colors. If anyone reading this/looking at this blog has any suggestions please help me out! The color palette on the second and third image show what i was trying to achieve,  but it doesn't thrill me......

Yes. There are times when i get tired of working on 2-D works, paintings, drawings, etc...  So i work with 3-D projects.  Some are just oddly shaped canvases and others are actual objects.  And i've noticed that working this way helps me in the 2-D realm. The moment that you try to sculpt a 3-D form you begin to understand more of the shadows and curves that make up the shape. To wrap your mind around a painted object, it seems like, you need to physically make it first.