Mushroom watercolor.

 

A quick 4x6" watercolor of an orange mushroom from yesterday's hike.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82057393/orange-mushroom-watercolor-print

Lab watercolor

Been busy the past couple of weeks painting and finishing up commissions. Happy with how this lab commission turned out.

I managed to get out for a little hike today. I've never seen so many mushrooms at one time. Here are a few of my favorite shots. I especially liked these orange ones.

Also saw a lot of Jewelweed along the creeks and streams, another pretty orange. It is my favorite wildflower.

Dog Portrait Commission

This is a detail from a commission I painted over the weekend. A cute pup named Diego. Pretty happy with how this one turned out.

Below is the painting in it's first stages of watercolor.

Fossils and Dinosaurs

This Labor Day I took a trip to the Bay and looked for fossils and shark teeth. The highlights were a 1" Mako tooth (large tooth in bottom center) and a similar sized Sand Tiger. Not a terrible trip compared to my others from this summer.

On a similar topic I had fun making this collection of Dinosaur items on Etsy last night. The last few years I have become increasingly interested in the things I was interested in as a kid, dinosaurs being included.

Dinosaur Treasury - full view

Euoplocephalus lino... minouette $26.00	Nautilus design Ame... TypsyGypsyTees $20.00	Fossil Sharks Teeth... midnightcoiler $15.00
Triceratops Print twoems $26.00	Triceratops, Dinosa... TheWordShop $12.95	Original Origami Tr... ShukiKato $25.00
Art Original Illust... megashark $50.00	8x10 Stegosaurus Pr... trendypeas $24.00	Field Museum Chicag... geministudio $260.00
Champ the Plesiosau... nonesuchgarden $80.00	Black Sun T-Rex Din... SeeChangeDesig... $20.00	t-rex nursery art. ... lulufroot $20.00
4" Megalodon T... theladyoflette... $45.00	The Nautilus - 1st ... minouette $28.00	FREE SHIPPING Dinos... SissyLittle $89.99

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Razorbill egg painting

Working on a new landscape painting today. Hurricane Irene has passed. We didn't get much except some wind and steady rain all night. Still a little windy and wet outside.

This is a watercolor I did the other day of a Razorbill Egg. A seabird related to the extinct Great Auk. I like painting from life as much as possible, but this was done from photos I took at Matinicus Rock.


And a somewhat blurry photo of a Razorbill we saw at Egg Rock.

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.

Troublesome Owl Illustrations

My new project over at 100owls.com is going well. Slow, but steady. Owls, i've found, are fairly difficult to draw. Here are two new illustrations.

After I thought this illustration was finished (but not completely happy with it) it sat for over a month before I picked it up again and reworked parts of it. I think it's one of my favorites now, I'm especially happy with the depth and color.


The Great Grey Owl was tough to figure out how to draw in this style. But otherwise this one went smoothly. I started watercoloring this piece not exactly knowing what I wanted it to look like - usually this means I would be starting it over. After a few light washes I liked how it looked and quit. The snow added the rest. Sometimes spatter, texture, and weather can make or break the illustration.

Also a new shop!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/100owls

An extension of my main Etsy shop, this one is for all my owls.