Sketchbook Pages: March - April 2012

Sketches, demos, reportage, collages and notes for later drawings & paintings.

Sketch To Finish: Monkeys & Military Men

Preliminary sketches of toy military men and vintage Barrel Of Monkeys figures...

On the finish board, drawn in pencil on collaged splatter paint pages...

Layers of colored pencil are added...

And here is the end result, seen here in full...

CHRISTIAN MONTONE

"Monkeys & Military Men" - April 2012

Colored pencil and watercolor on mounted collage.  (11" x 14")

Sketchbook: More Television Drawings

From moving pictures: Television drawings. February 2012.

Sketchbook Drawings From Moving Pictures

Two double-page spreads of Television Drawings - 20 January 2012

Getting ready to attack some new pieces with layers of color. Though this is not the subject matter I'm going to be exploring, this familiar exercise has proven once again to be a fine warm-up to get my head where it needs to be.