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Medium: Ink on Clayboard (Scratchboard).
Size: 8″ x 10″
Date Completed: October 2010.
Other Information: After over a year of neglect I finally finished this piece of a female Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus). Three summers ago I happened upon her and her chicks in the North Cascades National Park. I snapped a few photos while she examined me warily. They continued on their way and I knew I wanted to tackle the detail and the attitude of that beautiful feathered mother.
Today I’m participating in an online Sketch Fest hosted by Ellen Million Graphics. People provide art prompts and artists get a chance to play around with those ideas.
Throughout the day I’ll update this post with the images I draw. Enjoy!
Medium: Ink on Sketchbook Paper
Size: 8.5″ x 11″
Date Completed: May 2007
Other Information: This was one of the intermediate versions of an eventual watercolor piece. To be honest, the ink drawing turned out much better than the watercolor. I think skunk cabbages are beautiful plants. The flowers actually smell pretty, if you don’t bruise the leaves and get skunk smell in the air.
Medium: Colored Pencil on Brown Paper
Size: 5″ x 7″
Date Completed: September 2007
Other Information: I saw this little cutie in Yellowstone National Park and snapped several photos. Later I sat down and drew it on “natural” fiber paper. I think the browns go quite well together.
Medium: Colored Pencil, ink and acrylic paint on Duralene
Size: 11″ x 14″
Date Completed: December 2006
Other Information: Duralene is a clear-plastic sheet, much like an overhead-projector transparency (but higher quality). It’s a bit cloudy but still see-through. This way both sides of the page can be used (in this case, colored pencil and ink on the front, acrylic on the back).
Medium: Watercolors on Crescent Illustration Board
Size: 11″ x 12″
Date Completed: February 2007
Other Information: Humboldt Penguins are one of the strange penguin species that do not live in Antarctic. They live in South American along the coasts in the (you guessed it) Humboldt current. The Humboldt current is full of cold water and is nutrient rich; meaning the penguins feed happily on cold-water-loving fish species.
Medium: Carbon Dust
Size: 6″ x 9″
Date Completed: October 2006
Other Information: Ammonites are a kind of prehistoric invertebrate. I find them incredibly gorgeous. This one was drawn from a fossil that was about an inch across.
Tosena splendida
Medium: Scratchboard.
Size: 11″ x 14″
Date Completed: December 2006.
Other Information: The Tosena splendida is a cicada species native to Thailand. The particular individual in this piece is female (that’s not a stinger on her abdomen, that’s an ovipositor so she can lay eggs under tree bark).
Magnificent Frigatebird
Medium: The bird is carbon dust and colored pencil on mylar drafting film. The background was painted with watercolors on illustration board.
Size: 11″ x 15″
Date Completed: June 2007
Other Information: Magnificent Frigatebirds are common in the tropics. When I was studying abroad in the Galapagos Islands they were everywhere. They are amazing, especially when they just glide along with boats and hitch a ride on the wind right over your head.
The image here is crooked because I neglected to scan it before framing it.
