New Pencil Drawing - "Annie"

A new pencil drawing done over the weekend, I may do a bit more 

tweaking before I call this one done.

"Annie" 5x5 Pencil

Heidi - German Shorthair Pointer - Pastel

    It has been a while since my last post.......don't seem to have accomplished much in the way of art in the last few weeks, at least nothing finished, but I did manage this small 9x12 pastel of a German Shorthair pointer named Heidi. I am also well into a larger pastel but can't post any pictures of it as it will be a Christmas gift and I don't want to ruin the surprise!

Draft Horse in progress

I  managed to get a bit of work done on this colored pencil piece today. Coming along nicely I think. Still working on ears and faces! I took a few good dog pictures this past week so I think a dog may be next on the drawing board. Thanks for stopping by, I hope everyone has a great week!

Draft Horse work in progress

Had a good day at the Golden Nugget market yesterday. A few pieces of art and some prints went to new homes, and its always fun meeting new people. Thank you to everyone who purchased! I will probably go again next Sunday weather permitting. I hope to have more prints ready to take along so if you have a request please let me know before the weekend. Also, today I was able to get more work done on the Draft Horse 

picture , and I am happy with the progress so far. Hope everyone has a great week!

Studio update

  I have spent the better part of today going through my overloaded drawers of older works and bagging them up, they are off to the Golden Nugget market tomorrow hopefully to find new homes. Also today I  received a call from The Spinnery in Frenchtown letting me know that this pencil drawing of A ram has been Sold....Thank You! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

On the drawing Table

 Two new items on the drawing board. First is a new Horse drawing. This is pencil and colored pencil, this is the first time I have combined the Two mediums together and I am liking how its working so far........

Second is a new Spirit Stone

Largemouth Bass
Colored pencil on natural river rock
Approx. 9" long










and One new update from the website...

Molly the Schnauzer has been sold, Thank you Debra!

Something different

Elephants on Granite?

   I have put aside the graphite pencils for colored pencils and I have traded my paper for rock this time. It has been bothering me that as much as I like the drawings and paintings I create they are not unique, and they easily get lost in the vast sea of great art out there in the world. That sameness leaves me wondering why I keep doing it, 

and that sameness leaves me feeling unmotivated to create more of the same. 

So I begin a pursuit of something different, something unique. I have been using 

river rock as a canvas for some time with waterslide decals made from my drawings, but that too has become repetitive, un challenging and again, more of the same. I have seen a lot of artists who paint animals on rocks, they cover the whole rock with paint and make it look like an animal. The qualities that make me pick up a particular rock are color,  pattern, texture, and shape and the last thing I want to do is hide them under a layer of paint. So with my first attempt I have chosen a rather large 8" wide, 7" deep and 5" high piece of what I believe to be granite, and weighs in at approximately 13lbs. I used colored pencil to enhance the rusty color of the rock behind the elephants and incorporated the natural pattern in the rock with the details in the elephants. Over all I am very satisfied with this first attempt at something different and I have several more ideas that I can't wait to get started on !