I thought I’d get a two-fer this week and combine my eBay listing with Mongolia Monday since the painting up for auction is a 8×6″ oil of a takhi (Przewalski’s horse). It’s from a photo that I took at Khomiin Tal, the westernmost of the three takhi reintroduction sites in Mongolia. I visited there in [...]
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Mongolia Monday- This Week’s EBay Listing 1-4-10; A Takhi From Khomiin Tal
Posted in EBay Listings, Mongolia, The Artist, Travel, Wildlife, tagged equine painting, horse painting, Khomiin Tal, Mongolia, Przewalski's horse, takhi, wild horse painting, wildlife painting on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
11 Recommended Drawing Books For Animal Artists
Posted in Book reviews, Drawings and sketches, Wildlife, tagged animal anatomy books, animal drawing, animal drawing books, Bob Kuhn, Charles R. Knight, clouded leopard, Ken Hultgren, mountain lion, tiger, Walter J. Wilwerding on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Obviously, drawing skills are fundamental for the creation of visual art, whether it’s representational or not. By “drawing” I mean having the hand/eye motor coordination to make the marks you want, where you want them and the way you want them with your tool of choice, whether or not you approach your work using lines [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Inspirations: Fieldwork Drawings of William D. Berry
Posted in Inspirations, Wildlife, tagged wildlife art, animal art, field sketches, William D. Berry, field drawings, pencil drawings on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had never heard of William D. Berry until I read a post about him over at James Gurney’s blog, GurneyJourney. Holy Cow, was he an incredible field artist! There is a book that covers three years of his field “sketches”, which you can buy here for the princely sum of…$8.50. This really is a [...]
A Trip To The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Posted in California North Coast, Travel, Wildlife, tagged alligator, California Academy of Sciences, moray eel, squirrel, triggerfish, tropical fish on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It took a little while to get there after it opened, but we finally visited the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park this past Sunday. I, like many people, was sorry to see the old building go, but the new one is fantastic. The living roof is worth the price of admission. 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. [...]
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