just in time for Halloween

I was glad my dentist was running late, so I could draw this unusual scarecrow in his office. It stands about 3 feet tall and reminds me of the birds in the old Heckle and Jeckle cartoons.

With a 9B Cretacolor Monolith pencil in the journal. Happy Halloween!

working from a master

Drawings by John Whalley are stunning. I saw one in the Portland (ME) art museum and then bought a book of his work.

Sketching hyperrealism--the ultimate in artistic oxymorons.

Doing a version of a master's work teaches me how they see detail that I'd never notice.

5B pencil on 60# sketchpaper. Paper and color are distorted by a water sketch on the reverse, plus my scanner's blueish contribution.

entwined vine

The power of drawing something to help you SEE it is amazing.

I had no idea of all the entwined parts of this grapevine piece, how it's held together, until I sketched it.

Tom Bow soluble marker and w/c on Canson drawing paper.