by Ona Christie | Feb 21, 2015 | Art studio, Drawings, Student work
I’m delighted to have recently taken on a wonderful new student. My 14 year old niece, Jenna, is a lovely girl and an amazing little artist. She came to me with a basic background in drawing, and about 2 (maybe more) years of oil painting lessons under her belt....
by Ona Christie | Oct 11, 2014 | Animal art, Animal spirits, Spiritual
So I have been doing these drawings lately. I hold a person in my mind, and close my eyes, and before long images will appear to me, and I get them down on paper. I think I’ve been doing this kind of thing for most of my life. It’s called art. 🙂 Seriously,...
by Ona Christie | Sep 7, 2011 | Animal art, Digital image, Paintings, Photoshop, Wolf art
I’ve painted this wolf in watercolor (based on a pencil sketch from a couple of years ago), so thought I’d give it a try in Photoshop. It came out kind of looking like a piece done in oil pastels. I do really enjoy the fact that overworking an area...
by Ona Christie | Sep 5, 2011 | Art studio, Drawings, Figure drawing, Illustration
More hand studies from the animation illustration project. The male hand is supposed to appear more forceful. I drew these pencil studies from reference photos I took of my son Isaac’s hand. However his hands are fairly small and delicate for a guy. I think a...
by Ona Christie | Sep 4, 2011 | Drawings, Illustration
Ask, and you shall receive! I recently started asking the Universe to help me find a way to use my creative talents to support me financially. Not long after, Lance, a client for whose non-profit I had done a fair amount of editing in the past, asked me if I’d...
