Many architects and designers have dual careers in both commercial design and fine art. Jim Leggitt is no exception to this trend and has spent years creating fine art drawings, paintings and works in encaustic medium. He has presented his art in numerous Denver spaces ranging from galleries to local coffee shops. Most of Jim’s artwork is available for purchase as either original pieces or digital reproductions printed on archival paper. His recent creative explorations have been drawing and painting using the iPad, Apple pencil and the software Procreate. Leggitt’s artwork falls into three categories; iPad Digital Sketches, iPad Digital Painting, and Mixed Media which includes traditional media such as acrylic paint, watercolor, encaustic, and hybrid illustrations merging photography and colored pencils.

DIGITAL SKETCHES

During the 2020 Covid-19 quarantine, Jim Leggitt developed new digital drawing skills on an iPad with the Apple pencil and visualization software Procreate. In those early pandemic years, he wrote and illustrated two books “Covid Stories” and “Klondike Stories”. Jim’s love for informal drawing and sketching led to a series of landscape and seascape illustrations using a variety of ink and pencil digital brushes along with simple digital coloring techniques.

DIGITAL PAINTING

In addition to developing hand drawing methods with an iPad, Jim Leggitt has also explored more detailed digital painting techniques focused on three subjects; natural landscape, the built environment, and manmade land patterns. Because of the wide variety of colors and brushes offered with Procreate software, Jim’s digital paintings have dynamic color variations, layered textures and character ranging from realism to abstract.

MIXED MEDIA

Jim Leggitt continues to expand his knowledge of informal visualization techniques that includes traditional media such as acrylic paint, watercolor, encaustic, and hybrid illustrations merging photography and colored pencils. Jim enjoys the process of plein air watercolor painting along with onsite drawing and sketching scenes around his neighborhood. He has recently learned encaustic methods and finds that medium both challenging and very organic. His hybrid artwork merges photographic material with hand drawn illustration to form exciting visual representations of his subjects.