Sort of an odds and ends Friday as the year winds down. The deep freeze is over here in coastal Humboldt County and it’s back to nice normal rainy weather with nighttime lows in the 40s. I’ve been getting in some good easel time of the past few weeks. Here’s a new argali painting from [...]
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New Painting, New Drawings And An Interesting Call For Entries
Posted in Drawings and sketches, Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Mongolian Culture, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged Mongolia, argali, wildlife painting, animal drawings, horse drawings, Mongol horses, Naadam, argali painting, Mongolian wildlife, Mongol herders, Erdene, Mongol herder drawings on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Big Argali Painting, Part 4
Posted in Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Paintings and process, tagged argali, argali painting on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spent pretty much all of my easel time on the argali painting this week. I think I’ve got it on track now. I need to do some detail drawings of the horns of all three to make sure I understand their structure and perspective before I begin the final stage on them.
I tried painting the [...]
New Painting Debut; and the Big Argali Painting, Part 3
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Writers of fiction say that they will have a story all plotted out, but sometimes the characters take control and things go off in unexpected directions. That’s more or less what I feel happened with the painting below. I wanted to do a big argali, because, well, I just needed to do it. About halfway [...]
The Big Argali Painting, Part 2
Posted in Mongolia, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, argali mountain sheep, argali painting, Mongolian argali on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we last left the big argali painting (36×40″), I had worked through the composition and drawing. You can read that post here.
I finally got back to it this week. The first step was to use the good old grid system to transfer the drawing in pencil. Then I restated and refined it with a [...]
A Special Visit to the American Museum of Natural History
Posted in Environment/conservation, Mongolia, North America, Paintings and process, The Artist, Travel, Wildlife, tagged American Museum of Natural HIstory, dioramas, Flaming Cliffs, fossil dinosaur eggs, fossils, protoceratops, taxidermy on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was one of a large group of artists in attendance this past weekend at the opening of the Artists for Conservation juried show “The Art of Conservation”, which is at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New Jersey. There were two full days of activities planned for us and we made the most [...]
Four New Paintings!
Posted in Mongolia, Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Mongolian Culture, Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged Mongolia, argali, takhi, Przewalski's horse, Khomiin Tal, wildlife painting, bighorn sheep, Yellowstone National Park, Mongol horses, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, equine art, horse art on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are four more new paintings to go with the two I posted last week. I had a problem with the background in the last one and thought I’d show how it was and how I changed it.
Here is one of the takhi (Przewalski’s horse) that I saw when I was at the Khomiin Tal [...]
Two New Paintings!
Posted in Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged greylag goose, morning light, White-tailed deer on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m applying (for the third time; I’m nothing if not persistent and it does pay off in the end) for a major juried show which requires work 9×12″ and smaller. So that’s what I was doing last week and this week- four to six small paintings that will form a decent, cohesive body of work. [...]
The Final Drawing. Really.
Posted in Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, Mongolia, Wildlife, wildlife painting on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Came back in this morning and looked at the last version with fresh eyes…..and realized that in trying to solve one problem with the ram on the left, that I’d wrecked the rhythm of the composition. The ram’s head needs to be down. Here are the two versions. I think you’ll see what I mean. [...]
The New Big Painting, Cont.
Posted in Paintings and process, The Artist, Wildlife, tagged argali, Baga Gazriin Chuluu Nature Reserve, Mongolia, wild sheep, wildlife painting on August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes having another, educated eye can really help. Since this is a big painting which will require a big time commitment, I decided to consult with another wildlife artist who I have taken a workshop with and whose judgment I trust. She knows me and knows what my goals are for my work. I sent [...]
My Reply to a Comment on the Previous Post About Using Photoshop + Mongolia Trip Photo of the Week
Posted in Mongolia 2009-AFC Flag Expedition, Mongolian Culture, Paintings and process, The Artist, tagged craft of painting, drawing, Mongolia, Naadam, UB on August 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I started to write a reply to the (partially quoted) comment below and realized that the topic was worthy of its own post since, as you will see, I have strong opinions about the subject (Who, me?).
“I found your process very interesting…especially because I tend to ‘jump right in ass-first’ and not do any studies [...]
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