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Wanda. Acrylic on cold press illustration board.

This image is from what feels like a lifetime ago; a life drawing session while we were working on The Prince of Egypt at Dreamworks. Acrylics flowed more easily off my brush in those days; we were working with it 9 or 10 hours a day. Though I do like photoshop for production work, you can see from this blog that it still feels good to splash paint around.

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Some friends let me stay in their beautiful home on a painting trip to Hawaii. I did this gouache painting of the place for them as a thank you. To see more click the Land Sketch link.

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Here's another sketch of the iguana at the LA Zoo.

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Iguana.

The sketch was painted at the LA Zoo and the finish was done from photos. For another view of this guy scroll down to the first post on this blog.

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Lara

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These 3" x 4" sketches are from a recent weekend trip on Highway One North of San Francisco. This particular stretch of road runs along the coast from Muir Woods to Fort Bragg and is a stunning drive if you ever have a chance to take it.
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Brandt. This is oil on canvas.

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I recently moved to Redwood Shores in the Bay Area and have been amazed at the abundance of waterfowl here. This weekend I got out the watercolors with the birds in mind. They don't stay still so you have to be quick but I did coax the swan to hang around with a handful of crackers.

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Redwood City street corner

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Jenny
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Sketches at the Natural History Museum.
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Neighborhood flowers. I've included some pictures to show the painting process. This is watercolor on hot press illustration board.

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Acrylic on cold pressed crescent board.
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Rotunda, charcoal sketch.
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Off the California Central Coast. A small gouache sketch in a heavyweight craft paper sketchbook.
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Switzer Creek. Watercolor on arches cold pressed paper.
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Plaster cast drawings. Compressed charcoal on Rives drawing paper.
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Felicia

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Cow. Compressed charcoal on rives drawing paper.
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Carmel point, central coast California.
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Iguana
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View from my office window at night. That's the glow of downtown LA over the hill.
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Laura, Gouache sketch.
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We had a great time at the landscape sketching workshop last week in Eaton Canyon. Here are some sketches from that and previous trips to the canyon.
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This bird flew down and all but posed for me while I was landscape sketching out in Hawaii. I like this one better than the landscape I had been working on.
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More views out the office window. I did 50 or 60 of these over the course of a year.
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View from my office window, different times, different days.
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More reference for the drawing class. These are done with B and 3B Ritmo charcoal pencils and Carbothello white pencils on Strathmore charcoal paper.
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Compressed charcoal and white nupastel on strathmore of Clark Allen. A reference for this weeks drawing class.
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Sci fi gouache quicksketch
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