Starfish watercolor

Just a fun starfish illustration.

Original starfish illustration watercolor and gouache. 2012 

Luna Moth Watercolor Illustration

As promised, here is my watercolor of the Luna Moth I saw in Maine. It was quite fun to paint and such a nice shade of green I don't get to use too often. I love the fern antennae.
A little series of colorful moths would be fun, don't you think? 

Luna Moth Print in my shop

Golden-crowned Kinglet watercolor

Golden-crowned Kinglet. I've been wanting to paint this bird for a while. A tiny little bird that darts around. I tend to see them in Winter here in Maryland.

African animal series

I've finished the last of a little series of African plains animals. Elephants, zebras, and giraffes. It was a fun challenge drawing a completely new set of animals and habitat.

Tufted Titmouse watercolor

I finished this watercolor a couple nights ago. We haven't had much snow here this year, but luckily I stocked up on my wintery reference pictures last year during our blizzard. Anyway - this little bird is a Tufted Titmouse. A pretty common bird in Eastern North America.

Nabbing a peanut.

Narwhal illustration

Another Arctic illustration. Narwhals under pack ice.

Nuthatch watercolor

White-Breasted Nuthatch. watercolor

Arctic Fox watercolor illustration

Drew an Arctic Fox last night. Not sure if I will include it in the series, but still pleased how it turned out.

Killer Whale illustration

This is the first of a little series of Arctic animal illustrations.
A killer whale and fish in an icy ocean, complete with snow and icebergs.

Up in my shop: Killer Whale illustration
The whole series will be available to buy in one set when I'm finished!

Zebras illustration

This is a 5x7" illustration commission I finished up about a week ago.

The zebras were tough to figure out how to transform into my style, although it looks obvious after seeing it. The baobab trees in the background were much easier to draw - and fun. They are an odd looking tree, but suit this minimal style well i think.

Below is a pre-watercolored scan of it. 

Bird Eggs Drawing

This was a little sketch I had lying around, I decided to finish it up and watercolor it. It is a collection of seabird eggs. Included are Terns, Gulls, Puffin, Murre, and Guillemot eggs

Print on Etsy

Puffin art

A new watercolor for Project Puffin. A lot of the Puffins I saw in Maine were in the water like this, swimming around the nesting islands.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

New linocut. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

This is one of the reference photos I took. It's feeding holes look like someone fired a mini cartoon machine gun into the tree.

Wolf Paintings

The other evening i was taking a walk and saw a red fox trotting through the woods and across an old road. This new sighting has only fueled my new obsession with wolves and foxes.

I think one of the hardest things about painting wildlife, especially foxes and wolves, is not making a cheesy painting. Here's a couple really nice (and not cheesy) wolf paintings that have been inspiring me.

The Black Wolf of the Currumpaw (1894) by Ernest Thompson Seton

This one was painted by Danna Ray, a fellow artist selling on Etsy. Take a look at her awesome work here: http://www.dannaray.com/


This one just makes me really happy.

Linocut Experiments

Today I experimented with some block printing. I love the look of block prints and have decided I'll invest some time and make more.

This is my first linoleum cut - its a Common Tern. The carving was easier than I expected and the printing was harder than I expected. I can already tell I will enjoy the carving and the printing will annoy me... especially when I upgrade to oil based inks.

Played around with my stamps and some watercolor too.

U for Urchin

U for Urchin

F for Feather

F for Feather

Q is for Quail Egg

My new project is creating a miniature nature alphabet. It is series of paintings depicting small objects painted life size - one for each letter of the alphabet. I'm starting in no particular order, here is...

Q for Quail Egg