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Inktober 23 - Ancient

Inktober 27 - Coat

Eye sketch

A shard off light at the mouth of the river ...

Marker Pen sketch ... my littlest one ..

Underwater Creatures -Hand drawn - out line and pattern, digitally composed ..

This armadillo is going big air on the road. Small 8 x 8 acrylic painting on wooden board

Pen and ink. 40-50 minutes

A small 10 x 8 acrylic painting for my wife.

The second painting in the Egg-istential Crises series. This one took some crazy turns as I was painting including the Air Jordans he's wearing. Small 8 x 8 acrylic painting.

Searching for fortune and glory, Tex Puff instead discovered mallowlithic drawings. Small 8x8 acrylic painting from last year.

After struggling with horse anatomy from photos, I finally decided to search for white horses, figuring that I would be able to see details more easily than on darker photos. It worked out well, the details were much more discernible.

Maia, one of two current German Shepherds was born here at our house ten years ago. She is a grand old lady with a big ears, a big ruff and a sweet personality. This drawing was done from a photo reference AND her sleeping at my feet. I used Pigma Micron Pens in black and brown with a little graphite smudging to add a bit of shadow.

There are many reference photos for iguanas on the internet. This drawing relies on three difference reference images. The drawing was done with a micron .005 pen and then coloring added with pencils. He was a lot of fun....I think there may be more iguanas or other lizards and reptiles in my future!

Drawing Prompt Submission

I've been so impressed with the ball point pen art that I have seen on this site, that I decided to give it a try. This is a Betta fish (Siamese fighting fish) done in red, blue, and purple ball point pens. Obviously, I have much to learn....but it was great fun and I have ordered some more colors since I plan on experimenting more. I've enclosed a photo of the work in progress and the various reference photos I used. The colors are more true to the final scan than in the flash photo of my drawing table.

When I am angry and frustrated with the world (politics, wild fires, injustice, etc.) I seem to be drawn to drawing raptors. The first one is today's sketch, the other two are from former days. Blackwing pencil and woodless B4 pencil on Canson sketch paper.

Stories about how the coronavirus is affecting the world.

I've started a new mixed media sketchbook. Which is often times unexplainably daunting. To get over it I just dive in with lots of color. Then the fun begins.

Recent acrylic painting made for a new technique demo video. Using Acrylic skin to create an acrylic collage painting.