Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas and Happy new Year!

Western Bluebird

 This is a watercolor and ink brush painting of a Western Bluebird.

Double-crested Cormorant

 This is a watercolor and ink brush of a Double-crested Cormorant, a wide spread waterbird through out the US.

Rose Breasted Grosbeak

 This is a watercolor and ink brush painting of a Rose Breasted Grosbreak.

Yellow Warbler

 Today's post is a Yellow Warbler in song.  This is a watercolor and ink brush.

Texas Windmill Vista

 This is an oil painting of the see forever Texas Plains, with a Cattle Water tank and it's windmill pump.  This is a recently completed commission.

West Texas Water pump windmill

 Happy Holidays, this is an oil panting of a West Texas Water pump wind mill, 8 x 10 inches.

Sandhill Crane Head shot

 This is a watercolor of the head of a Sandhill Crane.

Northern Nevada Railroad Engine 40

 This is a gouache watercolor of Northern Nevada Railroad's Steam Engine 40.

Happy Pug-o-ween!

 So I am a day late but this is the birthday card I did for my sister and it celebrates her three crazy pugs.  I am to sure what they dressed up as for Halloween but I think if they could have picked these would be their costumes based on their personalities.

Great Northern W-1 locomotive Sketch

 This is a pencil sketch of a Great Northern Electric locomotive called a W-1.

Great Northern F-7 sketch

This is a pencil sketch of a Great Northern Railroad Locomotive called a F-7 from the 1960s. 

Sandhill Cranes

 We tried to go and see the Sandhill Cranes in Omaha back in March but Covid cut that off, so in the hope of seeing them this coming year in February I did this Gouache and watercolor painting of Cranes flying in to roost for the night on the Platte River.

Toco Toucan painting

 This is a gouache painting of a Toco Toucan I finished tonight.

Happy Birthday, Julia!

 This is the Birthday Card I did for my Niece, Julia.  Poppies and A Monarch Butterfly, her favorites.

Fenwick Lighthouse, Delaware

 This is an oil painting of the Fenwick Lighthouse in Delaware at night. A night painting is also called a Nocturne.  

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, Boston Sketch

 This is a pencil sketch of the Minot Ledge Lighthouse near Boston, MA.

Bermuda Petrel

 This is an ink drawing of A Bermuda Petrel.  It is an endangered sea bird which only nests on the Bermuda islands.  It was thought extinct for 300 years but was "rebound" and saved since 1953.

Ein the Corgi

 This is an oil painting of my daughter's Corgi, Ein.  Ein is short for Einstein from the "Cowboy Bebop" Japanese cartoon.

Sea Otters

 

I have been working on some commissions so I have not been working on anything for posting.  This is a gouache watercolor of the Sea Otters.  

Elk Couple

Tonight's post is a goauche of an Elk couple.  Not an original design but I did this as practice of painting skills.

P-47 Thunderbolt

This is a Gouache watercolor of a WW2 Warbird, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.

Happy Birthday to my wife.

This is the watercolor of a hummingbird I painted in watercolor for my wife, Barb's Birthday.  Enjoy.

Sumi Bee

Tonight's post is a Sumi bee.  Ink and watercolor.

Three Cranes

Today's post is a Sumi ink and watercolor of three Cranes.

Owl Sumi

Tonight's post is a Sumi or Japanese style Owl done in gouache (Opaque) watercolor.

P-38

Tonight's post is a gouache watercolor of the US WW2 fighter the P-38 Lightening.  It is one of the most distinctive aircraft of the war, with its twin engine booms and separate cockpit,

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day, I did this watercolor of an old prospector with his Donkey.

Mermaid - Pen and Ink sketch

So this is based on a beer label from down in Virginia Beach.  I liked the design so I free hand this one based on it.

Famous Afghan girl Sketch

I did a sketch of the famous Afghan girl picture from 35 years ago.  It is a great photo and a good sketch for practice in pencil.

P-51

Today's post is an experiment.  I did this one in opaque watercolor called gouache.  This is a copy of a P-51 Mustang painting.  First time for using this medium.

Bird Friends

Tonight's post is a Sumi ink painting of two birds on a branch talking/chirping to each other.

Addison

Tonight's post is an oil painting I did for a friend of his daughter.  The size is 9 x 12 inches.  Addison has dyed her hair Blue for the pandemic, so it made the hair fun.

Mid Flight Sumi

Tonight's post is another Semi bird.  This one is mid flight.

Dinner on the Fly

Tonight's post is a Sumi style watercolor of a bird chasing down it's dinner.  This is practice of drawing and brush skills.

Boys on the Buoy

This is an oil painting based on a photo taken by my father on a ferry from Seattle to Vancouver.  These seal lions are hanging out on a buoy, probably to rest and to avoid Orcas Whales.

Happy Birthday Dad

Today is my Dad's birthday.  Many of my best earliest memories are from going fishing up in the Colorado Rockies.  We use to go up to Red Feathers Lakes, Colorado to camp and fish.  So Dad enjoy your day and presents.

Mother's Day Irises

This is my Mother's Day card of Irises, done with watercolors.

Sumi-e Bloosoms

Tonight's post is a Sumi-e, i.e. Japanese style ink painting.

Ink brush Hot Rod

Today's post is an ink brush Hot Rod.  It was done with ink brush and color markers.  This is a birthday card for a friend of the family.

Artist Sketch

This is a sketch of an artist I met.  It is done in pencil.

Desert Garden Visitor

This is a painting I recently completed and sold.  It is oil on board and is 11 x 14 inches.  I have a print version of it on my Fine Art America site.

New computer and return to blogging

I had to get  new computer so that and a road trip has delayed the bogging, but not working on drawing and painting.  This is a sketch of a two masted ship, maybe a Barque.  This was done in pencil and free hand with out a ruler.  The straight lines are a bit of a pain.

Caboose Generator - Block In

This is an oil painting done in a little bit of a tonal style.  This is an electrical generator on a retired caboose.  This is how the old American Cabooses got electricity in the caboose.  The movement down the rails would run this and charge a battery.

Happy New Year, Native American Sketch

I finished this sketch today.  I then realized I have not posted in this year yet.  This is a pencil sketch of Stephen Small Salmon from Montana.  He is a member of the Pend d'Oreille tribe from the Flathead Reservation in Montana.  I had great photos of him from our trip up to Montana.