Juliet

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; 
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: 
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; 
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: 
For never was a tale of more woe 
than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 

Below, an homage to perhaps the most brilliant last lines of a play ever written. As you can see, my vision of the costuming probably wouldn’t have worked that well on the Elizabethan stage. However, I think the author would have surely and almost certainly, beyond a reasonable doubt, and almost without question, loved it.

Because she was amazing.

But that's just me.

Juliet
40 x30

Model with Pillows

I like the monotone look of charcoal drawings. Sometimes I add a sepia tone to the final print. Lately I’ve been experimenting with adding more color to drawings. The technique shown in the drawing below keeps the character of the original drawing and charcoal strokes.

Model with Pillows
28 x 36

Color Chalks

Robin found a small case of unused color chalks in her art supply cabinet so I decided to experiment with them. I'd just bought a new newsprint pad so I thought this would be a good way to break it in. I scanned the chalk drawing, opened it in Photoshop, and applied several filters to duplicate layers, experimented with different blend modes and opacities for the various layers, then added an ancient parchment texture to the background.

Experimental chalk drawing print.
30 x 40

Detail, before adding lots of layers, filters, and stuff.

Detail close up of final image.