Cowboy Singer

As part of the fund raising for my daughter's school I was asked to create a lunch bag that could be auctioned off.  This is the bag:

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Since we are in Nashville, the topic seemed appropriate.

Pitt Pens, copic markers, gel pens and oil pastel on a bag that I think came from a liquor store.  It is a little larger than a regular lunch bag.

Summer Lunchbag

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This is a quick bag done for a Father's Day issue of the Tennessean.

Lunch bag 29

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This week is probably the last lunch bag of the school year, and I am not quite done with the story.  Regardless, we find the Gym Rat ready to take advantage of the Locker Gnome's eviction from his below ground storage facility.  He is looking around for things that he can store in the new expansion area.

Craft Paper (lunch bag), col erase pencil, pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels, white gel pen.

Lunch bag 28

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This week's lunch bag shows Sara with a book that she found in the Locker Gnome's stash of "lost" books.  It is a book of games that were played by school children a long time ago.  It may be the key to getting the Locker Gnome's eviction revoked.

Craft Paper (lunch bag), col erase pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, gel pen, oil pastels.

Lunch Bag 008

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This week the Locker Gnome is making a break for it!  Sara has surprised him in his secret lair and he wants to get away!  Standard lunch bag, col-erase pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, Sharpies, white prismacolors, white gel pen

Lunch Bag 007

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Sara has entered the realm of the Locker Gnomes and surprised one of them who was in the process of stealing a math book.

Kraft paper lunch bag, col-erase pencil, pitt pens, sharpie marker, copic markers, white prismacolor pencils, white gel pen.

Lunch Bag 006 Color

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The bag with the color added, way too much hatching, it took longer to hatch than it did to draw or render the bag.

4th Lunch Bag of 5th Grade

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Sara and the Leaky Locker is the theme for this year's series of lunch bag's.  I don't think that she has enough time to read a story at lunch, but I like the idea of the character having to deal with the added challenge of dealing a locker.   One that is out in the hall that houses all kinds of random gear and troubles.

Building on the previous year's techniques, the pencils went down as blue col-erase lines on the bag itself, then I inked over them, fleshing out the detail and then layering in the cross hatching for shades and shadows.  The color is done with Copic markers and some sharpie. Finally the white on the character is mainly prismacolor pencil with a little gel pen to give it some punch.  The white mist is added to help "pop" the character using smeared oil pastels.

Lunch Bag 10 Aug 2012

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This bag has Sara working a clicker.  Still experimenting with media, this is a mix of marker and pastels on the lunch bag.

Country Singer Bag - Nashville

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Here is the final rendered bag for the charity auction.  Now I need to figure out how to make it stand on its own!  

Bag for Charity - Country Singer

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This is a bag that I am working on that will be donated to a charity auction where some of my other work is being displayed as part of an art show.  This is showing the dreams of a singer that is coming to Nashville to be on the Grand Ole Opry and to be a star.

Deep in the cave

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Here is this week's bag for Sara's Field Trip to Mammoth Cave.

Fall Break

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Here is this week's bag, more of just a Fall Break bag than a continuation of the story.