Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my Mom's Birthday.  She and my Dad are a huge animal lovers.  I sent her as a gift a sketchbook of my practice animal sketches.  The final sketch is of their rescue Australian Shepard, Marley.   So have great day, Mom.

Roadside Pennsylvania Part 2

This is the same scene from yesterday but it is on grey paper with charcoal and white chalk.

Roadside Pennsylvania

This is a road side view I captured during a summer drive through Pennsylvania.  I caught this out of the corner of my eye and quickly captured the view and fleshed out this sketch as the passenger in the car.  The road side in the Keystone state was spectacular, with light green grass, white, orange, pink, flowers.  Mixed in also was a dark brown amaranth spikes.  Nice typical summer sky with big puffy clouds.

Polar Bear with Pickelhaube

I use to belong to a support group at work and this was our symbol, a polar bear with a pickelhaube or old german helmet from 100 years ago.  The support group would meet at various bars in downtown DC and would imbibe to de-stress.  Thank God, I am not in that job anymore.  If you need a bear in a helmet time to move on.

Three Wise Men - Arches National Park style

This is an oil painting at night of a rock formation named Three Wise Men at Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.  This area should be on your bucket list.  I might run away and go live there.  Edward Abbey wrote about this Park in his book, Desert Solitaire.  It is interesting to read it after having visited there multiple times.

Geese study

This is an oil painting study of geese flying south.  It was an experiment in sky and palette knife on the tree.  Hopefully, the geese have flown by now.  Not that it gets real cold in DC.

More Zebras

This is a sketch of another Zebra from Kenya.  This one was at the Nairobi National Park, just outside of Nairobi.  It is strange to go from a major african city to lions and Zebras in less than one kilometer.