Recent Posts
Kastle Kaos Drawbridge
Return To Blog Listing
Drawbridge is an illustrated journal of my life as an artist and nature lover. I use coloured pencil, collage, or whatever it takes to say what I mean.
Drop in and say 'hi'! Art is all about communication, after all.
As I live in the beautiful
Recent Posts Tagged With 'inktense watercolour pencil'
Walking At Night
This is a thing I was taught to do long ago by mother. Without fail, after supper, summer, spring, fall and winter, out she would go for a walk when we were at the cottage. Now that I make that statement, it sounds like I was raised in privilege...
Phaeton—and the wilderness of the mind
Phaeton extracted from his father, Sun God Apollo a misguided promise to grant any wish. Phaeton demanded to drive the chariot of the sun for one day. Honour bound by his promise, Apollo was obligated to comply, and with great trepidation dispen...
Dreaming of Mice and all things Nice
Subtitle: is it cheating. Recently a read a debate about the use of photoshop in art (I use GIMP, same thing). Specifically, it revolved around enlarging a photo reference in photoshop, then tracing it onto paper or canvas to skip the chore of ...
The Cats in My Life
Lennier & Archer. Considering this is, first and foremost a personal blog, I’ve had very little to say about the cats in my life. Unlike dogs, cats seem to occupy the private spaces in the home, unseen but no less loved and cared for.&#...
WIP's and other notions
Darned, I was almost ready to fire off Coloured Pencil from Start to Finish--Finished when 95% got deleted. I was editing in Blogger with no back-up (won't do that again, ahem). So a Work In Progress (WIP) to keep things going.This is a scene from ...
Gazeboing & Other Good Verbs
This is a little off the cuff (I should be painting, well, always) but I haven't blogged for a while and feeling a bit lost and lonely for all that. I was visiting friends for the weekend, up on the Magnetawan River, chilly weather and hungry bugs k...
Trillium Erectum
That is the proper name; this flower has many common names. I always called it the red, but I imagine its botanical name refers to its tall and stately pose. This image was a victim of overzealous lifting with tape. I tried to lighten up some area...
Coloured Pencil-Start to Finish Part 1
My next project is taking awhile; a long while, and at 14x17 purely coloured pencil, mostly line work, it's my most ambitious project to date; so how about a how-to series?Keep in mind, I don't do photo-realism, or conventional realism of any kind wh...
Second Chances
It's not often in life we get second chances, and in reality we never really do. We just get "another" chance--if we're lucky.This is the bird that hit my window. I thought he would most certainly die, as he fell to the ground in a diminishing seri...
