Oh look … another Blue jay!

Your going to get tired of Blue jays soon. This is my fourth attempt at doing a full colour ink drawing. Let me tell you, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Not sure why, but trying to feather in blue is incredibly difficult – the shadows and highlights just don’t cooperate. It’s not hard [...]

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Song birds and ink pens

I tackled a blue jay today. Well, not really, I tackled the task of sketching one in pen and ink. As with my previous ones, I’ve used an earlier drawing and fleshed it out with nib pen and ink. I used Winsor & Newton’s Nut Brown ink this time. Very similar to the Peat Brown, [...]

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More Pen and ink birds

I’ve been playing with different nibs with my pen and ink birds. I’ve been switching between large nibs and ultra fine ones to get a nice shadowing and feathering effect. Today, I redid a little pencil sketch of a Beswick Wren I drew about 2 years ago. I used a couple of nibs, primarily a [...]

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Bravely going where no cat has gone before – pen & ink sketches

At long last, I’ve begun to sketch again. I’ve been trying to draw buildings, but they really aren’t ready for prime time yet. I seem to have a problem with getting things aligned properly – things tend to list to the right on most of my drawings. Not sure why but it’s quite annoying. I’ve [...]

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One of those moments

I’m having one of those moments where it’s simply too difficult to do anything but enjoy the moment. Mother Nature is playing a nasty trick on us – making us think spring is here already. It’s a bright, warm day out… ohhhh… we are going to pay! I just know in my little heart that [...]

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Feathered and fluffy

Oh baby it’s cold outside. Way too cold. I think when I went out earlier the weatherman said it was about -25c. Gawd I hate the winter. I know, I know… I’m Canadian and by default I’m supposed to love playing in the snow, skiing, hockey skating… everything snow and ice related. Somewhere in my [...]

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