These are the feathers of a peacock once named “Fabio the Vengeance.” It’s a pretty long story, involving a crazy peacock in the middle of Michigan (not exactly prime real estate for peacocks) who eventually died. Anyways, these are his leftover feathers. 

Watercolor sketch of a few girls in HA 394.

This is doubling as Illustration Friday – “climbing.”

A gift for two special someones who know who they are. The scan isn’t great – I couldn’t quite fit the entire thing on my scanner. Micron 08 and watercolor on 140 lb cold press Strathmore paper.

EDIT: Took a photo. Coloring is better on this version, too.

Some old clementines that have been sitting in my refrigerator. The scan is kind of strange – the original was much more orange, although there is still red in it. Micron 08, uniball, and watercolor. 

Portrait of Daddy. Not my best, but not my worst.

My friend Kaarin’s adorable cat – made me want to get my own cat. Shame I’m allergic. Micron 08, uniball, and watercolor. Done from a photo.

Quick sketch of a girl in one of my classes. I liked the scarf she was wearing, the way it fell across her shoulders.

Self portrait – marine blue acrylic ink and uniball.

Some of my most recent encaustic paintings. The rest can be found here. 

This one is smaller than the others, about 5 by 7 inches. I’ve recently started to like working in miniature; it forces the viewer to lean in and look closer at the detail.

These are all photographs of the paintings, of course, and I don’t love the way the coloring came out in this one. It’s a little more reddish-orange in reality, as opposed to the yellowish-orange here. 

Above and below are part of a very long series that I’ve been working on for months. These are the only two encaustic works in the series, though. Most of the pieces were watercolors, gouaches, and drawings. 

An apple core and sequence of ink bottles.

More apples (honey crisp – some of the best I’ve ever had) and a self portrait. 

Another self-portrait. In interesting one, to be sure, but certainly not my favorite that I’ve ever done. 

Cups on my kitchen table. The top my morning coffee mug and the bottom one of the (many) cups I use for watercolor water. 

Art supplies – pens, waterbrushes, ink bottles, hake brushes, squirrel, goat, and synthetic brushes. All in ceramic mugs that I made in ceramics. But of course I’m not going to actually drink out of them. 

A few miscellaneous things: girl in class (it was the first day – The Miraculous and the Diabolical in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art), a print I made in printmaking, and my bamboo plant. I haven’t looked at my bamboo plant in some time, although I do water it every few days, and it just occurred to me as I was drawing it how much it has grown, and I got this strange surge of pride that I suppose parents get when they see how much their children have grown.

Um, just traffic lights, which I’ve always loved to draw. Nothing much else to say about it. I like the way I did the watercolors on these.

I’ve lately been doing a whole series of self-portraits:

And I recently went grocery shopping, so of course I had to draw all my fruit (along with some other crap that’s lying around my apartment).