Bulldog

What a face... he is painted in watercolor, about 8" x 10". Available for sale - $75 - click here to purchase

Silverpoint horse

12" x 16" horse drawn in silverpoint. Available.

Black Bears in encaustic

I took yesterday's sketch of the black bear mother and cub and painted a 12" x 16" encaustic. Encaustic is an ancient method of painting with melted wax.

Black Bears

This is a fairly large drawing - carbothello red chalk on cream paper, it is about 16 x 20". Available for sale.

The Barn where I keep my horses.

Another nude

Life drawing again. Today I will be painting a portrait from life as a demonstration for the CAA art fair. It is both exhilirating and nerve wracking to work in front of an audience, especially when you only have 2 hours to finish a portrait.

Rose Grey

Oil on panel 6" x 8". Available for sale.

Another nude

Nude Figure

Charcoal nude from life drawing session. Highlights in white pastel pencil. Approximately 18" x 24" - Available for sale.

Adenike

This is a model from Tanzania. She is really beautiful and is very interesting to talk to while she is modeling. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24." Available for sale.

Dressage horse head study. 8" x 10" Black and white chalk on grey paper. Sold.

Comments and links enabled

Technology is not one of my strengths, but I am slowly hacking my way through the twigs and branches and other obstacles to get a view of what it means to "be" on the net. I am very proud of myself today for figuring out how to enable comments and links. Comments anyone?

This is a studio painting done from a plein air sketch of Mary's Lake Road in Estes Park Colorado. Sold.

Meet the Artist Night

I had an opportunity to meet the public and hang a one-woman show at the Colorado Academy of Art Gallery tonight. It is the first time I have seen my new encaustic work hanging as a group, framed and appearing under nice gallery lighting. I had a nice time talking to new people about my art and my classes, and I am already looking ahead to my wildlife and landscape show later this spring. I am posting my painting of a horse head. It is oil on panel, and is available for purchase.

Newfoundland

Chocolate Lab

Oil on panel. 11" x 14"
Sold

Coyote

I drew this coyote at the museum today. It is black verithin prismacolor on cream paper. It is about 8" x 10".

Silverpoint Cheetah

Rabbit

Watercolor wash with ink.

Society of Animal Artists Show

I have discovered a new place to study animal figures. It is called the Wildlife Experience, located in Parker Colorado. They have some very nice African lions, Leopards and Cheetahs, as well as a collection of Colorado large game animals.

The Society of Animal Artists show is in the main gallery until Feb. 18th, then there will be a show of work by Robert Bateman beginning March 1, 2008. I am especially looking forward to the upcomng show "The horse in fine art," opening June 7, 2008.

I have attached my silverpoint drawing of a couple of Dall sheep.

Close up of a Tortoise Head ... thinking ...

Very old reptiles

Galapagos Tortoise - what do they think about?

Wolves

Attempting yet another species - the canids. Here are my latest wolves.

Drew at the Museum today

It was another snowy day in Colorado, so I headed off to the museum of natural history to draw animal skeletons. I drew a horse skeleton but I couldn't see it's feet, so I will have to finish it from books and memory. I also drew this pair of Mountain Goats.

Another horse.

When I went to the barn today there was a new pony in for training. He is a very cute little chestnut Welsh pony. He is terribly nippy, but our wonderful trainer will cure him of that soon. I decided to do another horse sketch.

Right, it's a horse not a lion

I didn't finish my lion muscle study today. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a quick sketch of a horse.

More about Lions

I rather enjoyed drawing a lion yesterday, so in my obsessive-compulsive way I began to study lion anatomy. This is my drawing of a lion skeleton in front view. I plan to draw the lion's muscular structure tomorrow.