Book illustrations

Here are a few sketches from the dummy I made of a friend's story for a children's book.  It was never published, but it was fun to do.

Some life drawings

Well, so much for posting every week in December.  However, I am updating the blog with some more drawings, these from life drawing at the St. Louis Artist Guild.

Some small watercolors

Shaw Nature Reserve

Maine Lighthouse

Texas Hill Country 

Some sketches from a Sketchbook Project book titled Airplane

Illustrations done for a friend's book

My turn to post

I'm going to try to post something regularly on this blog for the month of December.  I enjoy the blogs and art of so many other people and yet never get around to posting things myself, so here goes.

I was tempted to go to Ferguson to draw the protests, but it's not safe.  Even daredevils I know said it was not a good scene, and one was robbed at gunpoint.  So I drew this from the live coverage on TV late at night as we watched, sadly, the burning of businesses and livelihoods.

I'm trying to use up a sketchbook that has paper that is kind of good for nothing.  It drains my markers, clogs my pens, and devours my paint.  I used watersoluble crayons for the above picture.  Then I doodled some simplified critters for a bit and had fun doing a herd of horned critters as part of my Sketchbook Skool homework.

A new painting for 2014

After painting 3 cakes for the St. Louis city Cakeway to the West birthday celebration, I was glad to get back to painting.  Here's one so far.  It's titled Overgrown.  11x14, acrylic.