Charcoal

I found a box of old charcoal that I must have bought years ago, and I immediately set to work experimenting. I decided it was a good time to try combining charcoal and acrylics, which is something I'd seen but never done. I started each piece by blackening the page and then using my fingers to sketch the figures. Once I secured that dusty charcoal sketch with some spray varnish, I painted in blacks and then whites with the brushes. In two days, I made about ten of these, and was happy with at least half of them.

I tinted a few of them warmer on the computer so they didn't look so bleak. I call these two: "The Walker" and "Betty"