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Archive for August, 2009

Another Fine Finish

Posted in Adventure!, Art, Artists, Drawing, Environment, Nature, Sketching, bird art, birding, birds, field sketching, rainforest, travel, tropics on August 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Actually, I have finished two pieces since that mystifying last post but I’m not going to overload anyone, so that’ll have to be another post somewhere down the line.  Here’s the completed picture, titled Canopy Life. The accompanying label caption reads:
Bromeliad’s leaves are shaped to scoop and store rain, creating treetop tanks for frogs and [...]

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Freakish Color Phenomenon? You Be The Judge.

Posted in Adventure!, Art, painting, random speculation, self-indulgence on August 9, 2009 | 21 Comments »

This is peculiar but I’m sure there’s a good explanation (which I’m not qualified to supply). While working on the new painting shown in the last post, I was disoriented by a magical changing-pastel trick. One pastel stick+two color backgrounds=two effects. The pastel in question is a mauve. When it goes on the turquoise background, [...]

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A New Work In Progress

Posted in Art, Artists, How-to, museums, painting on August 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Here’s a new piece- a mixed flock of birds sketched in the Amazon treetops, incorporated with a sketch of a bromeliad from the same site. It’s for my upcoming show in a section called, “Canopy Life: The View at the Top”. I needed an art assistant to help me with creative details, such [...]

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