A Drawing A Day!

I've been feeling very inspired lately to try and improve my fine art skills. A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to catch a demonstration by the artist Don Colley at Art Media in downtown Portland. He said something that really stuck with me, and has had me thinking ever since.

If you want to be a professional artist, you have to think of it just like being a professional athlete: athletes train every single day. So, I have resolved to try to do at least one drawing each day, even if it's just some scribble on a napkin at 2 am like this...

fetus painting...

studio sketch:

figure studies done at the hipbone drawing studio on Burnside

More sketches from the ranch...

Plant Illustrations

A couple of ink-pen and watercolor sketches done out at the ranch. Two of the most common wildflowers of the area: Purple Foxglove and Pennyroyal.
I scanned the originals and set them to multiply over a separate layer of old parchment texture...I think it would be interesting to eventually do a whole series like this of all the local plants.