Albrecht Illustrations: Prints

An Idea: I get much of my inspiration and creativity from reading mythology, classic literature, or ancient history, listening to instrumental music, watching films, or admiring classical art.

Research: Every illustration or painting that I create is based on research. Over the years I have collected a large reference library that I use and add to every time I create a painting or illustration. I frequent my local Half Priced Books for a variety of book types: National Geographic, children's educational books, general reference, photography, ect. I also have a Canon Digital camera that I carry around with me to capture references as I am driving around. I use models as often as possible for all my art.

What follows below are the Materials that I prefer to work with by Medium:

Crescent™ No. 110 Cold Press Board
Crescent™ No. 300 Cold Press Board
Canson™ Watercolor Cold Press Paper

Click on a painting below to see a step by step process of how I painted them. I hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

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From Start to Finish: My Techniques, Materials and Step By Step Process All my life I have been a self-taught artist with no formal or classical art training. In highschool I took 3 years of Photography and 1 year of Commericial Art. I went to college briefly in 1997 at the University of Houston and briefly again in 2004 at Cyfair Community College to work on my Core Curriculum that I would need to get a BFA in Painting, but Life has a funny way of changing your plans. A few years later (and a few years older), here I am taking Art classes at Austin Community College as my schedule allows. One day, once I'm done with raising my kids, I hope to go to the University of Texas to get my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting. That being said, what follows is a list of materials and mediums that I use to create the art you see on my website. My preferences came from both trial and error and by referral from other working professionals that I know. Every painting or illustration that I create starts with an Idea and Research.
An Idea: I get much of my inspiration and creativity from reading mythology, classic literature, or ancient history, listening to instrumental music, watching films, or admiring classical art.
Research: Every illustration or painting that I create is based on research. Over the years I have collected a large reference library that I use and add to every time I create a painting or illustration. I frequent my local Half Priced Books for a variety of book types: National Geographic, children's educational books, general reference, photography, ect. I also have a Canon Digital camera that I carry around with me to capture references as I am driving around. I use models as often as possible for all my art. What follows below are the Materials that I prefer to work with by Medium:
Drawing Tools	Drawing Paper	Mixed Media
Sanford Freeze™ 0.5 mm mechanical pencil Sanford™ 0.7 mm mechanical pencil Pentel™ B (Soft) Black Lead Design™ Ebony Jet Black Extra Smooth Design™ Drawing 3800 series	Bienfang™ Parchment 100 Tracing Paper Canson™ Vellum Paper Strathmore™ 400 Series Drawing Paper Strathmore™ Artagain™ Drawing Paper Strathmore™ Bristol Smooth Paper	Berol Prismacolor™ Colored Pencils Derwent™ Pastel Pencils Pigma™ Micron Archival Inks

Watercolor	Acrylic	Oil
Crescent™ No. 110 Cold Press Board Crescent™ No. 300 Cold Press Board Canson™ Watercolor Cold Press Paper	Crescent™ No. 110 Cold Press Board Crescent™ No. 300 Cold Press Board Canvas w/Liquitex™ Gesso	Masonite board
Grumbacher™ Goldenedge series brushes	Grumbacher™ Bristlette series brushes Winsor & Newton™ Series 233 brushes	Grumbacher™ Bristlette series brushes Winsor & Newton™ Series 233 brushes
Grumbacher™ Finest Artists' Watercolours Winsor & Newton™ Art Masking Fluid Winsor & Newton™ Gum Arabic table salt & rubbing alcohol	Liquitex™ Professional Acrylics Liquitex™ Matte Medium Liquitex™ Gloss Medium & Varnish Liquitex™ Matte Opaque Extender Grumbacher™ Brush Cleaner	Winsor & Newton™ Winton Oil Colours Winsor & Newton™ Refined Linseed Oil Weber™ Turpenoid Natural
Click on a painting below to see a step by step process of how I painted them. I hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!