Sloth and Toucanet Illustrations

Illustrations

(L) Sloth, ink pen and watercolor. (R) Toucanet, oil on paper.

Illustrations of a sloth in watercolor, and a toucanet painted in oils, from photos taken at the zoo. The sloth was sketched in pencil then drawn with ink Micron pens and colored with watercolors. The toucanet was an amazingly cute little guy with a huge personality to match his beak. It was done on Moleskine sketchbook paper that was primed with several layers of Golden GAC-100 acrylic polymer and painted with quick-drying oils.

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Chinoiserie Wisteria Mural

Here’s a recently handpainted mural, featuring serene wisteria vines and flowers in a foyer leading into a master suite hallway. Many thanks to Viola Interior Design for bringing me in to work on this lovely project!

Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101

I’ve been working on this six week online course and it’s been so much fun and informative so far. Here is my second week assignment to draw three objects applying the principles discussed in the course material. Observational drawing is something I love and I feel that the structure of this course will help me improve a lot.

At this time of year, our butterflyweed plants are done blooming and the seed pods have started to open. I find them fascinating and beautiful.

I drew these pods from life and in the process of observing their attributes took a lot of photos to use as reference for artworks in the coming winter months.

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