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

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!

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 !

Mercer County 4H Fair

Spent some time yesterday at the Mercer County 4H fair

at Howell Living History Farm. 

 

 got some great reference photos to draw from

I love to see all the animals, but it's not every day you see a 

1901 wood fired case tractor! very cool!

 

New Spirit Stone

EL101 Mixed Media, 

River Rock, Image Transfer,  pencil, Ink

I have been making more "Spirit Stones" lately. This Elephant stone is a smallish one

at just 2 1/2" by 2" . I have been working on several more Elephant drawings and 

 plan to combine them as a group on a larger rock

A visit from a Starling

This little guy (or gal) Starling fell from it's nest in the eve of the roof near our door. We watched over him  the whole day thinking he would eventually fly away.  But all this baby wanted was to get back in that nest. He tried climbing up the screen on the porch, he tried climbing and jumping from the Shepperd's hook below the nest and out of despiration he even tried my daughters head !  That evening, tired of watching the struggle I popped him on the end of my mop and standing on tiptoes hoisted him back home to the hole in the eve where he stayed with his nest mates for Two more days, then they all flew away.

Fresh off the Drawing Table

" Bode and the Butterfly " 

Fresh off the drawing table this afternoon. A small drawing measuring

  5x7 inches. Inspired by one of our clients at the grooming shop.