Cheryl's Muse - CALz Ayr WKz and Body Ice

My name is Cheryl LeFever and I've been into art ever since I could hold a crayon. Over the years, I worked in many different forms of media. Jewelry designs and airbrush art have become my passion. I love to work with wire designs and my daughter, Denielle, loves the bead work. We make a perfect team in this regard. My airbrush works vary from very small to hoods and vehicles. I'm always up for a challenge and hope you will enjoy our Ayr Wkz and Art Wkz!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Catching Up - A Rat's Life

This was intended to be another practice piece. It started out with some light mapping from a stencil. I drew out a rat and included it into the composition. Then the rest was all freehanded with the airbrush. This was also done on paper with Wicked.

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So now my family has banned me from "practicing" on paper.

Catching Up - Lick

Since my first painting, "Cat Nap," came out so good, I decided to do another black and white of a cat. So here are some of the progress pictures.

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Catching Up - Pin Striped Skull

I decided to do some more practicing a little airbrush work and a little pin stripe work on paper.

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Again, this was just for practice.

Catching Up - Cat Nap

I decided to paint a black a white cat portrait, found a great reference from Paint my Photo website and went to town.

Here I am mapping out the composition with paynes gray. Click on Pictures for a Better View.

Then I worked on my darker areas and in between layers, scratching to create the fur.

Worked on my highlights and many layers of scratching to create the depth in the fur.

This is the finished painting all framed up.

Catching Up - Fishing Lures

Well, this was my very fist commission. My client wanted me to paint two fishing lures like the old B-52 Bombers. This was the result.

Catching Up - Pheasant

This project was a cast iron pheasant that my husband made in high school. My mother-in-law asked me to paint it up for her because she wasn't happy with my father-in-laws handiwork. LOL

This is the finished picture. She was happy with the results.

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Here I completely stripped off all of the old paint and really cleaned it good so that my base paint will adhere correctly. I then painted the whole thing black and then started building textures with white.

Catching Up - Skulls

These skulls were just for practice. They were done with Wicked on cheap newspaper paper about a year ago.

They were lightly stenciled for mapping and then freehand painted afterward.

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