A Girl and Her Dark: Glam!
I finished the second part of my Girl and Her Dark series! The original has GLITTER <3 I intend to do a special limited edition print to match on watercolor texture paper. If you need a refresher, you can find […]
Animals
Coyote Joy
Finished coloring that cute Coyote sketch I did a little while back =) The sketch was done of my friends rescue coyote, when coyotes encounter something stinky they joyfully scent roll. Their bodies contort in all sorts of weird ways, […]
Flying Corriedale Sheep Time-lapse
A corriedale sheep soars through the sky during a blazing sunrise =) A commission for someone on Facebook of a flying sheep in watercolor (specifically a Corriedale) I am open for commissions like this, where you tell me your […]
Sketchbook Saturday
Scent roll! It’s when a coyote (or other canid too!) finds a smelly thing and rolls onto it. The most I study canine anatomy, the more coyotes make me laugh. They are so flexible sometimes, you can barely tell where […]
Finished Pet Portrait of a Malinois
Just finished this pet portrait of a client’s lovely Malinois. I don’t think I could keep up with one, but they are lovely dogs. This one was described as very loyal and playful, here he is checking that his owner […]
Sketchbook Saturday: Raccoons
Raccoon (only one page, I got caught up in the anatomy and ended up spending hours learning about raccoon collarbone attachments. I posted on an exotic pet site asking about their ability to move their fore arms and wound up […]
Sketchbook Saturdays: Rabbit and Kangaroo
I find rabbits particularly hard to draw, despite having kept them for a number of years. We actually bred Creme D’Argents and American Blues for a while. Their bodies are much like a coiled spring, waiting to be released, their […]
Sketchbook Saturday: More Flying Critters
More birds, this time one with extreme proportions! I focused on getting the beak correct from a variety of angles, as well as how little detail was needed to express the orientation of that tiny black body in space! I’m […]
Sketchbook Saturday: Fantasy Critters
What is the use of all those studies I do? I use them to inform my fantasy animals! Here a different kind of griffin stalks a little mouse. There are also some sketches from the pond I was sitting in […]
Sketchbook Saturday: Ferrets and Hippos
Part of the 100 days project I mentioned before, these sketches depict the hippopotamus and the ferret. I worked on the ferret with a mink skull readily at hand, which was excellent reminder that the skull is MUCH longer than […]