I just got back last night from a two-day trip to New York. One day was taken up with the Society of Animal Artists board meeting (of which, more later) and the second day with wandering around Greenwich Village sketching and then hitting some jazz clubs in the evening with fellow artist Guy Combes, who [...]
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Sketching In New York
Posted in Drawings and sketches, The Artist, Travel, tagged city sketching, Greenwich Village, New York, sketching on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Field Sketches/I’ll Be At Pastels On The Plaza Tomorrow
Posted in Drawings and sketches, The Artist, Travel, tagged animal drawings, animal sketches, Arcata, field sketches, Indian rhino drawing, Northcoast Children's Services, Pastels on the Plaza, Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure, transcaspian urials on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going back to my two-a-week posts. Mongolia Monday will start up again on, um, Monday, along with my eBay auction listing. Fridays and whenever the spirits moves me will be everything else: paintings in progress, etc.
Here are some recent pages from my sketchbook. They are done with whatever fine point liquid gel pen Staples [...]
How I Start a Big Painting & A Favorite Photo from Mongolia
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Paintings and process, Wildlife, tagged argali, argali paintings, painting process, painting reference, using reference, wildlife painting on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the advantages of my illustration training is the process that we were taught for putting a picture together. I don’t do all the steps all the time, but now that I’m about to start one of the largest paintings I’ve done so far, I need the control that the process gives me.
My first [...]
Memorial Day Miscellany
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Equipment, Making a living, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, The Artist, tagged AFC Flag Expedition, argali sheep, art studios, drawing, Mongolia, sketching on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, I want to honor and express my appreciation for all the men and women who serve and have served in our armed forces. I’ve read a lot of history and it’s true- Freedom isn’t free. But, America should never go to war except as a last resort and should never risk our soldiers lives [...]
Mongolia Monday And A Schedule Adjustment
Posted in Book reviews, Drawings and sketches, Inspirations, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, tagged David Rankin, Fast Sketching Techniques, Mongolia, sketching on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I am about two months out from my Mongolia trip, I’ve decided to consolidate my blog posts to Monday and then do quick updates as needed on other days of the week. For the next few months, most posts are going to have Mongolia content as I share my preparations and, with luck, the [...]
Mongolia Monday- More Horses and an Interesting New Book
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Mongolia, Mongolian Culture, tagged horse drawings, Mongol horses, Mongolia on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing on from last week, here are some more horse drawings. I’m looking for interesting gestures and angles other than from the side.
Next week I plan to do some sketches of various combinations of horses to see how they look.
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Here’s a link to a story that was on CNN last week. It’s about an autistic [...]
Lost and Found, Cont.- Two Demonstrations
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Equipment, Inspirations, Paintings and process, Pets, Wildlife, tagged cape buffalo, Drawing demonstration, lost and found, painting demonstration, rhino on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s one thing to see and appreciate how other artists use techniques like “lost and found” when viewing their finished work. But I thought it might be useful to show a couple of step-by-step demonstrations of how I go about it. First, one in charcoal and then a second in oil paint.
Here’s a selection of [...]
Animal Expression, The Finale (at least for now)
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Kenya, Mongolia, Wildlife, tagged animal drawings, animal expression, bactrian camel, coyote, gorilla, spotted hyena, warthog, wildlife drawings on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has been a fun, and instructive, series for me and I’ll definitely be doing more of this kind of thing for my own study work.
Most of the drawings I’ve done for the previous posts were done fairly quickly, generally 30 minutes or less. For today, I’ve done more finished drawings, once again using the [...]
Animal Expression, Part 5: Eyes
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Wildlife, tagged animal drawings, bighorn sheep, cat, giraffe, horse, Serval on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s a saying, referrring to humans, that “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. I believe this is every bit as true for animals. Now, whether or not, in the religious sense, animals literally have something that could be called a soul, is a question I’ll leave to others. But in the sense of [...]
Animal Expressions, Part 4- Mouths and Contest Result
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Wildlife, tagged animal drawings, animal mouths, Coke's hartebeest, lion, reticulated giraffe, spotted hyena, white rhino on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Contest result: No one got all the noses right. The right answers are: grizzly, bison, moose, turkey vulture, elk. The person who came the closest guessed black bear instead of grizzly because the muzzle wasn’t dished, but nailed all the rest. This may be because it was a young animal. I went back to my [...]
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