muse

Drawing of an abstract sculpture of a male figure @ IU Art Museum Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

mixed media on A4. Did this in the National Museum of Scotland

Drawing turns to digital colored,,,hope you see it as the greek fables,,,,olimpian gods,,,n else mitology is my inspiration,,

Portrait I of a series I never got around to finishing--perhaps I'll get around to finishing the other two this month

I am tired of drawing people looking at their phones, so I am replacing people's phones with random animals. Like for this cool lady, I saw at the Met Museum!

Drawing of an abstract sculpture of fantasy creatures @ IU Art Museum Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

So if any of y’all have watched RuPaul sorry if I am spoiling it for you. It’s really great. I was told to make Appa from Avatar. Working on it @rayedrgn ! Okay so here it is! I traced just to get shapes then I colored it. Um I guess that’s it?

This one is quite old; Johnny Depp playing the piano. Digital painting from reference. He's my muse.

Oils on canvass. This is Charlie. He's the parrot owned by the supermarket where my husband used to work. The owner of the shop brought him in to keep him from getting bored and pulling his feathers out. He has a large cage at the entrance which he often escapes from, and can be found hopping from trolley to trolley on the handles, to amuse himself. He's usually found by a staff member who brings him back. A real character lol

This is the converted school bus that belonged to Route 66 super sketcher Bob Waldmire (RIP). It's here at our museum, so I sketched it one day. It's an amazing studio/home on wheels!!

There's a moment in Black Panther where Michael B Jordan's character steals an African mask from a museum. When the other character with him asks why, he says "I'm just feelin' it." The mask he grabbed was VERY cool, and I kind of wanted one, too. But, short of stealing things out of museums, I guess I'll have to draw them. If you click on the image, you'll see a full spread of them.

The Museum is a good place for a romantic date!

Fine liner, 8.5" x 11". This one is pretty dark but still amuses me years later.

Drawing of an African ceremonial mask @ IU Art Museum Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

Drawing of a female figure sculpture @ IU Art Museum Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

Pencil drawing of a marble sculpture @ IU Art Museum

Pencil drawing of a bronze statue at IU Art Museum

This is the first painting I made for a series on dragons that I hope to exhibit this year at my local art museum. It's a 26x36 cm watercolour painting on cotton paper. I took the concept from a Chinese god who was in charge of the pearl of creation, and turned it into a dragon with that very same pearl.

I came upon this startling image on the grounds of Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota. Amazing to suddenly see an image of a mythical person looking at you from inside a tree.

The Meeting Bell Medium : Pen and Ink On Bristol Board Size : 11" x 15" Year illustration was completed : 1987 This illustration was part of a collection of pen and ink rendering i did for a christian mission, for their pamphlet that was published to inform the community, surrounding churches, and the military post near by, of the services they offered, and about their ranch. Their main ministry is to the military service personnel and their families. They offer a weekly dinner followed by a Bible study. They offer a place where service personnel could spend the weekend at the ranch for free, with meals included. There would also be activities they could partake in , such as going to concerts, going to amusement parks, visiting national park for picnics and hiking. The ranch holds retreat for military personnel who are in training, who want to learn about the Bible , and enjoy good home cooked food, rest, and out door recreation in the country. This ministry also lends it's facilities too near by churches, and to the military chaplaincy, for luncheons. This ministry is a great work of God, share God's word, and love through hospitality. About the bell. I call this illustration the meeting bell, because it sat right out side the activity center, and when ever a retreat was being held, the bell was use to let the guess know when a meal was being served, or a Bible study was about to begin. If you study the bell you can tell that at one time it must have been housed in some kind of church or fire house, by the big wheel attached to it's side, so it can be rung by a rope. Then when it found it's self at the ranch , they must have had a arm clacker manufactured, To strike the bell to sound.

Pen and Ink on construction paper with some colored pencil.

Ink

Observations from an expedition to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which features an incredible paleontology hall. I brought with me a pad of sticky notes, a couple Micron plastic nib pens, a set of Copic Markers, my fanny pack, and some headphones. Prehistoric life has been an infatuation of mine since childhood, and there is something very humbling about drawing in the shadows of these fallen giants.

For a Dutch science museum I illustrated and later animated this interior of a fictional space ship.

Some of my sketchbooks from a new workshop I'm conducting at the Riverside Art Museum.

Drawing of the oil painting "The Valley of Mexico, 1877" by Jose Maria Velasco @ IU Art Museum. Medium: Pencil on 18" * 24" paper

Pencil drawing of the oil painting "The Hope Family Portrait" by Max Beckmann @ IU Art Museum

Sketching at the Academy (California Academy of Science) with my five year old. This was so fun. There was so much movement that he actually focused on his own sketchbook for long enough for me to get one in. Usually, he's done by the time I put the clips on my book! The Academy and all museums are closed again with SF preemptively joining the rest of the state in the extended stay at home order this past Sunday 12/6/2020. Grateful we got to go several times while it was open.

Graphite on paper.14" x 11" / 2019

8 1/2" x 11" Crayon on cardboard.