Rainbow Trout

Happy Friday, I spent a fair amount of my time as a young child sitting nears lakes in the Colorado Mountains in pursuit of these fish.  They count as some of my happiest memories.  I will occasionally daydream about them and the fun they gave me.  Hopefully, you have something similar in your memory banks from your childhood.  This is a watercolor of a Rainbow Trout done for my Dad's Birthday since he was the one taking me fishing.

Wild Horse Sanctuary - Paint Horse

This is a watercolor of a Paint Horse running at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in South Dakota.  My Dad is fascinated with the place and sponsors a Mustang there named Prairie Lonesome.  We visited the Sanctuary two weeks ago, and we saw his sponsored horse along with hundreds of others wild and free horse in the beautiful Black Hills.  I took a lot of pictures and will be producing art works based on what we saw.

Watercolor - Cottage on the Fjord

This is a watercolor of a cottage on the side of a Fjord.  I did this for the wife as she had admired a similar painting so I replicated it as best I could.  I have done a fair amount of these and trying different styles and techniques is part of the growth process as an artist.

Covered Bridge - watercolor study

This is a watercolor study of a Covered Bridge.  Like most paintings, you like some parts and don't like other.  That is why you practice and experiment.  I used this as a stepping stone for a better and more original artwork with pens.

Carolina Wren - and I am back

I am back from a two week Digital vacation and real vacation.  I went out west and visited some family and some scenery.  I will bring some of those things to the blog as I develop them.  Above is a Carolina Wren on a cat tail done in oil a few years back.

Happy Sunday

To finish the meeting thread of the last two posts, these are co-workers during presentations.   They mostly stayed still which is always helpful in the complete of a micro-sketch.  These are all pretty small and were about ten minutes to completion.  The mechanical pencil is brilliant for this type of sketching.

300th post and Meeting Madness continued

This is my 300th post.  I started this blog because my son died and it was a way to keep busy and to be disciplined about doing artwork everyday.  I guess you could call it post traumatic growth.  His passing was a wake-up call to the shortness of everything and a kick in the butt for me to do something with the images in my head and on the paper.  These are more fragments of my co-workers.  (Note the blank meeting stares, hehe)