The Studio Archive — Skypi Studio

A working archive of an artist’s practice: 67 artworks in order of making, and a catalogue of 117 art supplies (42 swatched, 26 with photographed swatches). View-only public edition.

Artworks (in order)

  1. Nalgene Bottle Study (Ink) — Pre-charcoal baseline — line commitment, flat tone.
  2. Beach Tree I — Graphite (Graphite) — Plein air, first visit to the tree.
  3. Beach Tree II — Watercolour (Watercolour) — Second visit — warm trunk, edited to one trunk.
  4. Lake View — Graphite Bands (Graphite) — Banded rhythms, ridge silhouette observed.
  5. Lake View — Pixel Ink (Ink) — Invented blocky language — chisel-tip experiment.
  6. Plant Study at Home (Graphite) — Quiet life study, drooping stem gesture.
  7. Lake — Soft Green Bands (Watercolour) — Home motif, misty banded study.
  8. Square Lake Study (Watercolour) — Rock wall foreground gets real attention.
  9. River Rapids Study (Watercolour) — Creekside — colour arrives, movement next.
  10. Garden Wildflowers (Watercolour) — Botanical gestures — lupines, poppies, clusters.
  11. Sunset Marsh S-Curve (Watercolour) — Winding waterway into depth — classic device found alone.
  12. Starry Night Spatter (Watercolour) — Light-in-darkness in watercolour, spatter stars.
  13. Twin Peaks Mountain (Watercolour) — Milestone — complete, confident, anchored.
  14. Glacier Sketch at Sundown (Watercolour) — Alpine expedition — held against the real peaks.
  15. Heritage House at Dusk (Oil pastel) — Orange sunset sky, evening plein air.
  16. Old Wooden Building (Watercolour) — Architecture honestly attempted — cupola and cedar.
  17. Bar Bottles Nocturne (Watercolour) — Painted at the counter — bottles as colour shapes.
  18. Golden Cattails (Watercolour) — Metallic gold as the light itself.
  19. Walnut Sepia Landscape (Ink) — Monochrome value thinking — granulating walnut ink.
  20. Power Lines — Walnut Ink (Ink) — Sagging cable rhythms, drawn from screen.
  21. Foraged Purple Mountains (Foraged) — Blackberry, fire-pit charcoal, lake clay — from the beach itself.
  22. Yellow Light Doorway (Watercolour) — The core motif as pure composition.
  23. Apartment in Oil Pastel (Oil pastel) — Home interior — orange column, plants, TV table.
  24. Dog Portrait from Life (Mixed media) — The live, judging model — her real markings caught.
  25. Trudy Knows Best (Mixed media) — Observational cartoon — charcoal dark around a lit face.
  26. Underwater Imagination (Watercolour) — Pink veined creature, blue cactus, wet blooms as texture.
  27. Edgers Lil Fren (Marker) — Character page — zine energy.
  28. Dillards Deals Page (Marker) — Cody the sales manager — imaginative ad world.
  29. FAMILY Collage (Collage) — Altered found photos, charcoal field, painted title.
  30. Goat & Doll Spread (Mixed media) — Ink splatter goat, collaged doll head, pastel house.
  31. Gouache Stripes (Gouache) — Vertical strip landscapes — analogous families, one cobalt.
  32. Gouache Abstract Landscape (Gouache) — Bruised palette — the nocturne sensibility in colour.
  33. Oil Pastel Triangles (Oil pastel) — Colour pair studies — orange/blue strongest.
  34. Red-Eye Creature I (Mixed media) — First appearance — trees, darkness, two red eyes.
  35. Black Paper Swatch & Falls (Chalk) — Conté vs Primo white tested — waterfalls emerge.
  36. Thumbnail X Studies (Charcoal) — Taped triangle compositions — iterating before committing.
  37. Three Landscape Strips (Charcoal) — Serial variations — moon version, red version.
  38. Portrait & Sepia Pines (Charcoal) — Figure and landscape pair on toned ground.
  39. Intense Portrait, Pink Field (Charcoal) — White collar glowing, red-flecked background.
  40. Quadrant Abstracts (Charcoal) — Four moods — red accents doing emotional work.
  41. Pen Mug Still Life (Charcoal) — Drawn from life — the actual desk mug.
  42. Night Cityscape (Charcoal) — Lit windows in dark towers, toned paper.
  43. Lighthouse Beam (Charcoal) — The strongest early piece — light cutting fog.
  44. Window View Watercolour (Watercolour) — Home motif from indoors — observed reflection.
  45. Red-Eye Creature II (Oil pastel) — Breakthrough handling — heavy, smeared, a second pair of eyes.
  46. Conté Nocturne on Black (Conté) — The signature piece — rust, moss, violet, chalk-white.
  47. Beach Tree III — Pastel Crayons (Pastel crayon) — Third visit, third medium — boldest water yet, anchored trunk.
  48. Bathtub POV (Watercolour) — Looking down into glowing water — light in a vessel.
  49. Highlighter Zigzags (Marker) — Office supplies as art supplies — pure mark play.
  50. Diamond Flowers (Gouache) — Shaped tape mask — opaque petals pop on transparent ground.
  51. Triangle Meadow Window (Watercolour) — A world through a geometric aperture, shimmer fields.
  52. Golden Serpent Lake (Watercolour) — Mica mountains and a creature in the water — threads meet.
  53. Little Yellow House (Watercolour) — Shimmer siding, dark windows make the gold sing.
  54. Pink Hood Screamer (Watercolour) — Dark values enter watercolour — the wall cracks.
  55. Astilbe Vase (Watercolour) — Delicate botanical — dotted plumes, glass hinted.
  56. Shimmer Pines (Watercolour) — Paint that only exists when the light hits.
  57. Gold Dune Sketchbook Page (Watercolour) — Sparkle horizon bands over pale water.
  58. Blue Falls, Gold Leaves (Watercolour) — Waterfall arch pouring through golden foliage.
  59. Bayou Underpainting (WIP) (Gouache) — Green water field under storm-brown sky — spooky swamp forest coming: darks first, then eyes and fireflies.
  60. Star Grove & Black Mass (Gouache) — Two panels — gold-lit night grove with stars; orange sky over a committed true-black mass.
  61. Glitter Sunset Lagoon (Mixed media) — Glued glitter stars, marker sun and water, gouache autumn trees over green forest.
  62. Golden Cliffs (start) (Pencil crayon) — Ink-outlined gold rocks flanking a green pool — pencil crayons enter the practice.
  63. Ex. 01 — The Moon Egg ✓ (Charcoal) — Form study complete — the sphere turns, velvety 9B darks; next time weld the shadow to the ground.
  64. Ex. 02 — Value Nocturne ✓ (Charcoal) — Five values grouped — glade dashes, darkest foreground; the blueprint for the watercolour nocturne.
  65. Ex. 03 — Edge Hunt ✓ (Charcoal) — Best lighthouse to date — hard lantern, yellow accent, lost base in fog.
  66. Ex. 04 — Envelope Zoo ✓ (Charcoal) — Heron, cat, bear — envelope-first habit installed; the dog is next.
  67. Ex. 05 — Reserve the Night ✓ (Chalk) — The creature is untouched paper, red eyes in chalk fog — plus a second presence, Sky's own idea.

Supplies & colours