Oil • Pastel • Oil Pastel • Oil Based Colored Pencil

An eclectic group of traditional & non-traditional contemporary fine art portraiture, figurative paintings and drawings.

Mediums: Oil paints, oil pigmented paint sticks, oil pastel, oil based colored pencil.

Substrates: Acid free, toned paper- created from 100% pure cotton rag, illustration board, hardboard, sheets of aluminum. 100% pure archival cotton canvas or linen stretched over wood frame or solid wood board.

A collection of concept drawings, preliminary sketches, illustrations and paintings for exhibit design firms, museums, universities, visitor centers. Many of these projects were also created for newspapers, magazine publishers and advertising agencies.

Acrylic • Casein • Egg Tempera • Gouache • Watercolor

More examples of fine art portraiture painted in a variety of water media. All of the pigments and materials used to create are of the finest grade. All paper substrates are from 100% rag cotton and are acid free. Pure linen and duck cotton canvas are of archival museum quality.

Charcoal • Graphite • Pen and Ink

Portrait and landscape drawings are rendered either from life or from photographs or a combination of both.

Materials List: For charcoal drawings, “General” brand artist materials in vine sticks, pressed sticks, soft & hard charcoal pencils with a kneaded eraser.

Graphite drawings are usually done with an assorted brand of graphite pencils within a varying hardness range of HB to 6B.

Pen and ink drawings are created with either “Koh-I-Noor” brand rapidograph pens and the “Koh-I-Noor” brand inks or a quill nib pen using “Higgins Black Magic” brand waterproof ink, occasionally combined with water for a diluted black ink wash.

“Strathmore” brand 400 or 500 series paper and or illustration (2 or 3 ply) boards. Surface texture usually smooth or a slight tooth.

Collage and Mosaic- Portraiture • Figurative

These projects are essentially created as a “paper painting” utilizing assorted pieces of torn paper, recycled magazines, print ads, labels, stamps, notes and other miscellaneous paper items. These items are assembled as to mimic painted brushstrokes.

Mosaics are created similarly using broken dishes, stoneware, ceramic and glass tiles adhered to ply-board.

These murals and backdrops were designed for a multitude of venues, including museums, universities and visitor centers. Each was created by hand using either traditional drawing and painting methods or was rendered digitally. © KT

A variety of billboard & poster designs for clients of North Georgia advertising agencies from 1990-2014. Most of the designs shown here were the hand drawn marker comps from the initial concepts that were merged with digital elements. These first draft concepts were approved by the client as is, with no revisions and sent to production as the final design.

For decades, the outdoor advertising industry employed artists to design and create hand painted billboards, using oil based pigments from an artist’s paint brush. Today, the outdoor advertising industry uses UV resistant inks applied from state of the art, large format digital printers. These printers are currently the industry standard for producing billboard and poster designs.