Paintings, Drawings, and Cartoons

Methods and Equipment

The primary tools are:

Arches 140 lb and Arches 300 lb handmade paper pH neutral drawing paper, Vellum	Drawings	Toons
Winsor Newton Professional Transparent Water Colour Paint (tubes and cakes) Winsor Newton Series 7 Sable Watercolour Brushes Natural lighting when possible, simulated daylight lighting otherwise. Workstation, Wacom Pressure Sensitive Tablet, Fractal Painter (now Corel Painter), Adobe Photoshop

Methodology:

• Watercolor methods are generally traditional in nature, leaving the whites.
  • However, whatever means can be used to lift, remove or replace unwanted imagery or color will be employed to the limit of the painting ground.
• Pen and Ink, Pencil and Charcoal work methods are traditional line and hatching, with occasional brush use.
• Digital paintings were done with Fractal Painter; digital corrections were done with Fractal Painter and Photoshop
• Fractal Painter is updated to Corel Painter