I have not updated my blog in quite some time and that is primarily due to the fact that we welcomed a new baby boy, Clark, to our family ...

Living in rural east central Illinois I see my fair share of red-tailed hawks along the interstate and country roads, but there are two oth...

  Most of the time I like to draw birds and other subjects without a background, I prefer the crisp edges and it is much faster.  I dec...

I have always admired the work of Charley Harper and blogged about my first attempt to paint in his style here .  This time I had the idea...

   I was recently asked by an employee of the Grand River Conservation Authority if I could provide some illustrations of hickory frui...

I have been wanting to do another bird illustration and almost everyday as I drive down county road 1100 I am inspired by an American k...

    I have been meaning to do this drawing for awhile and actually started it in July right after these orchids flowered in June in a...

I have been meaning to illustrate a pecan ( Carya illinoinensis ) fruit to ad to my previous post on hickory fruit .  Today I finally illus...

In October I switched from using Crayola to Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils - you can see that post here .  I first bought the 25t...

A barred owl on a snowy blustery day, and some in-progress snapshots.  Watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil.