The Little Birthday Girl

This is a cute little girl who is turning one in a few days. She's the god-daughter of my client. I drew her using graphite on white Stonehenge paper. I also used a little pink color on her ribbons, her shirt and her lips. The portrait is a 9x12.

I enjoyed drawing this cutie and hope I get to do this more often!!! Again, the portrait looks a lot better than the photo of it. I will be investing in a good camera soon! The background should be white...not gray!

Portrait:

Here's the original photo:

Cuteness!!!

I've been working on a portrait of the cutest little red-head. This was a done for a winner of a blog contest for the Housework Haters Club blog. It was drawn on Stonehenge paper (my favorite paper to draw on) using Graphite. I added a little tinted graphite on his hair and cheeks and a little in the water. I'm not sure you can see the color...I've had trouble with getting the best pictures of my portraits. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get good photos of artwork let me know!!!

Here's the portrait:

And here's the original photo:

Where have I been?....a little bird crazy!

Well, it has been a really long time since I've blogged..."Where have you been?" you may ask me. I've been a mom for the past 6 or so months and not much else! I won't go into the details, but I will say that I'm back and ready to draw and blog and write and ....well, whatever God has for me!

I do want to share a few of my latest drawings and paintings with you and also share my brand new website. I have an easier domain name and I'm pretty proud of how it all looks! It's at www.melhowardart.com

Thanks for not giving up on me! And God bless!!!!

(Here's that new art..I've been a little bird crazy)