Putting on the base coats and blending them in now! It is so colorful Lol! Have a lot of work to make it look how I want but still it is fun to have it begin to fill in.

Here is a preview of my next large oil painting. The next installment to my big cat series. This cougar will turn out great! I’m looking forward to getting further on it!

With the black dragon complete onto the next one right? 😉 This is the concept for the rainbow dragon. It will be extremely colorful! I probably won’t have to much of a background on this one as the dragon itself will have the most color. There are a few tweaks here and there that I will do to this sketch but it will be relatively close to this concept.

The World of the Wild art show is entering the last two weeks of showing. Please check it out before it ends on March 12th!. In the meantime, enjoy this selfie of my sister and I in front of her owl pastel that is in the show too!

“The Gift of Power” is now complete. The black dragon can symbolize many different things but I chose power to be the main representation. I tried to capture the essence of this dragon and it turned out great!

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This year my oil painting “Concealed” got into the Hogle Zoo’s World of the Wild art show. There aren’t many snakes pieces in the show so it is great mine got in! This show supports the zoo and has many beautiful pieces of wildlife artworks. I invite you to attend, it runs from January 28 – March 12, 2017. Thank you for your support!

Here is a photo of my in progress pastel. This composition has a lot of elements with water, forest, rocks, and the tiger itself of course. The layering of the forest and tiger are what i’m currently working on. I getting the stripes marked in so I can start building them up. It is starting to look like a tiger though 🙂

With it being the New Year it has been a time of reflection. So here we see the improvement of time. The black and white piece is an earlier work done quite a number of years ago. I was experimenting with texture then on the fur using a dry brush technique. One of my earliest ink paintings it is interesting to see the difference in control. The other is a card I did a few years ago. You can see the change of technique for the fur and how it has developed. Both Bengal ink paintings are well done. It is fun to see how a style can develop over time though. You can buy the head shot as a card on my website.

This is “Half Awake” an India ink painting of the Chimera. The chimera is know as a hybrid species. I went for a more classical approach with the lion, goat, and snake. It took a number of washes to get the different textures. It did get a mystical feel, especially in different lighting with the different sheens that show.