Month: April 2011

Dappled Light Study

I sketched out a  horse head trying to practice dappled light effects. It’s very subtle in the pencil drawing but in the painting I’m working on it will be enhanced by the colors in the painting. I’m pretty …

I did some experiments of birds. A mockingbird and a cardinal. There are some real problems with the anatomy of the  mockingbird, but I think the Cardinal came out okay. The color seems to be okay, as always …

This cake is no lie

I made this awesome cake the other day. It was two yellow cake layers with homemade butter cream frosting and strawberries layered inside and out. Yummm. It was wicked good. It only lasted 2 days in my house. …

New Opportunity

I followed my boyfriend to a local small-scale pet shop the other day. They have all sorts of interesting animals; lizards, snakes, fish – some small and some very large, birds, small mammals, aligators, etc. He was looking …

Zoological Illustration

I love painting animals. It hasn’t been my focus persay, but I really do enjoy it. I found an illustrator today, Evan Barbour, today who does beautiful animal illustrations. His birds are phenomenal! About those blue jays… =) He says …