Cave Mouth Line Weight Tests

 

Here is the same scene - a cave mouth in the middle of a forest - drawn with three different thicknesses of line because I wanted to see how they would look.  The scene is from my imagination but it is amazing to me how the details - the exact arrangement of ferns and bushes - ends up so different from one to the next. This is partly due to it being easier to block things in with a thicker marker and easier to get more detail with a thinner one.  But it also goes to show that the imagination is often far from static, even if the basic concept remains the same.

More Floating Islands

 More floating islands, with a little guy and a cabin.  I kind of messed up on wind direction because the smoke from the cabin seems to be rising straight up and the vines are hanging straight down while the clouds are blowing one way and the waterfalls are blowing another.  But its still a nice picture.

I sketched some chickens on post-it notes as references for the chickens that are wandering around on the island, since I'm not very good at just winging it.  That went well.  Drawing preparatory sketches is always a good idea and I might do more of that in the future.

Floating Islands And Caves

 Well, the islands are floating anyway.  I don't have any floating caves in this particular drawing, that would be interesting. :)

I really gotta color this.

A California Newt

A California newt on a mossy tree trunk, that I found on a walk in Briones Regional Park in California.  I love him, he (or she) has such a silly walk! :)

A Tree Is Nice

I painted this with oils, mostly a quick way to up my left over green paint from another painting I'm working on.  But I quite like it, it reminds me of a book: A Tree Is Nice, which is a beautiful children's book that I really enjoyed when I was little.

Some of my better photography

Just some photography by me.

(And like most of my images, They're also on my deviantart,)

It had been a while since I had done anything in color so...

Celtic plant pot, in color

 Done with colored pencils.

I gotta be a bit proud of this one!

New Artwork

Lots Of Oxalis

Wet Oxalis

Taken a few years ago, but I just put them up on my DeviantArt.

Weekly Throwback

Oxalic Gem

California Hills Springtime

This is the first one, there will be more.