An eclectic collection of traditional & non-traditional contemporary fine art, drawings and paintings.
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.
Only the finest paints, mediums and materials made are used, all paper substrates are from 100% rag cotton and are acid free. Pure linen and duck cotton canvas are of archival museum quality.
All drawings are rendered either from life or from photographs or a combination of both.
For charcoal drawings, I tend to use “General” brand art 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.
I use “Strathmore” brand 400 or 500 series paper and or illustration (2 or 3 ply) boards. Surface texture usually smooth or a slight tooth.
Collages are essentially a painting but instead of using paint, it’s done with paper, utilizing recycled magazines, print ads, labels, stamps, notes and other miscellaneous paper items. Many of these paper items are torn and assembled as to mimic painted brushstrokes. This “paper painting” is then adhered onto stretched canvas or board.
Mosaics are created similarly using broken dishes, stoneware, ceramic and glass tiles adhered to ply-board.
These murals and backdrops were designed for museums, universities, visitor centers and other venues. All were created by hand traditionally with paint and brush or digitally with stylist and tablet within PhotoShop CC. The progression videos showcase each stage of the process for creating that mural project. © 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.
