Just in time for breakfast.

Am I alive? Haha, no. But here is a superfast super Peacock doodle to whet whatever appetite you may or may not possess for superfast super Peacock doodles.

Enjoy?

I'll try to better, I promise - but it's so hard to get motivated, sometimes, and there is always so much to do.

Panthera leo

Look, I made a lion!

I got fancy new colored pencils and actually had to use them, because I left my sketching pencils in Washington and have to wait for them to crawl back home in the mail.

So. Lion.

Jesse

Yes, I like doodling dogs. This is Samara's dog, Jesse. She is a nice dog, but she used to bite so hard. I'm pretty sure I have a scar on my thumb from puppy-Jesse.

a very hedgehog Christmas

This is an unfortunate scan (muted the colors!) but it's all I've got - this was a Christmas gift for my brother's fiancee. Watercolor pencils attempt #2!

I got lots of new papers for Christmas, so expect lots more recently. My New Years Resolutions include lots  more pictures, so be ready! I plan to update this thing on a fairly regular basis.

Fingerpainting #1

Mt. Rainier from Blake Island.

Finger-painting with the iPad while I figure out my new toy. ;)

A period of silence

This is just a note to say that I am still here and that I am still very much alive - but most of the art I'm doing at this moment is in the form of "Chirstmas Present." If I post it here, the secrets shall die!

I promise an update in the next couple of days with some kind of none gift-spoiling piece. I got two new lovely art tools to mess around with. (72 pack of prismacolor pencils and an ipad with some drawing programs! Woop. Happy birthday indeed.)

sometimes we can't be happy

I don't really like this, but Bec has been asking me why I haven't updated my blog all day and, well, I did this today. I had a pretty sketch and then I ruined it by thinking "oh, I haven't played with my calligraphy inks in like two years so why not". I will probably do a prettier version later.

And well, it isn't an animal!

Color added in post-processing. :P

Inigo Montoya

Trying New Things.

This little fellow, who actually is a very large fellow (Gymnogyps californianus: 9.8' wingspan), is made out from watercolor pencils. I have had them for absolutely forever without ever actually using them for anything more serious than ridiculous doodles and/or drawing on skin. (They are really fantastic for that.) Today I thought "WHY NOT?" and made a Condor with them. Because I love Condors. Because birds are amazing. And, so far, 2/5 of my posts have been birds. BACK ON TRACK he is the first little thing I've made with that medium and I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing, which I know shows at least a lot of bit, but I am determined and my next attempt will be about six or seven times better. Or at least I'll pretend that I did every bit the way I did on purpose.

We'll see.

Until next time, enjoy your life and be a fun person and look at some birds - they really are beautiful.

Jorge.

One day I will draw something that is not an animal, but that day is not today. (Actually I did some flowers the other day but I didn't like them because they are not finished yet.)

This is Jorge. He was a guppy, but he died.

Goodbye, Jorge.