Wednesday, July 11, 2012


Let's get caught up with recent sketches!

These two are hopefully the start of a larger set of drawings from a bridle. The first is of only the brow band, the second drawing shows my first study of the bridle.



This is a sketch I did of my drink at the Delaney's Speak Easy down in Columbia, SC.  Very cool place, and my compliments to our bartender, Jeremy!



This one was a fast sketch of some of the black-eyed susans in the garden in front of my house.



These were all sketches done at Scotsgrove Stables this past Monday.







I did two portraits at the end of my day.  Both aren't quite right--they look like some other horse in the barn than the horse I was drawing!! I'll keep working on it though.







Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Alright!! New stuff!  Some of these are a few weeks old, but I want to get them up here.

This one was a still life my mom and I did together one morning.  As an exercise, we used only a red, a green, a black and white, and yellow as a final accent color.  At the bottom right, you can see 2 scales I used to decide which green and red to use for the drawing. (graphite and colored pencil on MiTientes paper)


This is a still life I put together at my mom's studio.  I wanted to get some practice with reflections and color accuracy.  I wish now that I had played a bit more with the placement of my subjects, but you live and learn. (oil on canvas)


 These are pictures of a turtle shell that I reassembled for a friend. The first images show the disassembled pieces and my set up; the second set of images show the completed carapace and then the completed shell. There was also a skull, but no way to mount it without the cervical vertebra.  We are thinking about trying to create replicas of the leg and hip bones in order to have a "complete" skeleton.




I also did some sketches out at Scotsgrove Stables yesterday, but I'll put them in another post. 



Monday, July 2, 2012

New Blog!

First post! I'll add stuff later. Promise. New stuff, even.