I like food. And friends.

Your monthly montage, serving an array of visual entrees that includes: corndogs, killer bunnies, 1am cheese burgers, hail, and owl pellets. Cameos include: Cassidy, Kerry, Dan, Laura, Kristen, Garet, Dusty, Kyle, Casey, George, Adam, Nick, Chris, and my natural science illustration classmates,

A Birthday Shout-out

Happy Birthday Amy!

And...here's a YouTube Version. Thanks Ken Burns.

Last one

Almost... there...

You would not believe the preparatory sketches that have gone into this project. Like I can't see the surface of my desk because of all the papers scattered about. Maybe I'll scan them in sometime, maybe not.




Bullfrog, pencil and acrylic on duralene, 18" x 24"

Tomorrow's the last day of class! And then 2 weeks of spring break (ie North Cascades work).

PS. These are reconstruction photographs. Meaning I started with one photograph of a frog jumping and then, through lots of anatomy studies, I fit the skeleton and muscles to this pose. It is WAY harder than one would imagine.

Like a watercolor factory

And here's another one.


Dead Bullfrog, watercolor, 11" x 13"

Whoa.

Sometimes I look at my illustrations and think, did I really just create that? When did I learn to watercolor? When did I become a painter?



Raven, watercolor, 13" x 13"
From a photograph by Gavan Watson

Finals are this week and I've got one project down, one more to go.

Li'l slices of life