Magic Colour Pencil: cottonwoods

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Bird House Colored Pencil Drawing

"Is Any Body Home?" Colored Pencil Drawing

11" by 14" 80 lb. paper

My colored pencil drawing of the bird house on a cottonwood tree in Nebraska. this drawing is from a sketch I did April. The only green that was showing was the moss on the side of the tree. I really like to do these images in sets of four, using different media on each rendering. They are the same yet not the same. I am trying to decide if they should be displayed as a set of 4 drawings and painting or viewed individually.

Pen and Ink Bird House

"Is Anybody Home?" Pen and Ink Drawing

11" by 14" 80 lb. paper

I have been working on my art, I just have not been posting as I should. I finished the backyard fence repair from Hurricane Ike just in time for the next hurricane season. The heat is on in Texas so going outside for journal drawing has had it draw backs. I have not kept up that habit as I should.

Category › Bird House , cottonwoods , pen and ink

Bird House Pencil Drawing

"Is Anybody home" pencil drawing

A drawing of a bird house on a large old cotton wood tree in Nebraska. Cotton wood trees have a very rough bark, that is very intesting It was April so the trees did not have leaves yet.

Category › April , Bird House , cottonwoods , Nebraska

Cabin study

I took pictures of the cabin, and some on-site sketches. The cabin site includes a small storage shed that uses the same red cobble stones and green trim as the main cabin.

A detail photo of the cobble stones

Category › cabin , cobble stones , cottonwoods , Nebraska

Back to Art

Here I am restarting, after 20 years in education, a new career with creating art. For now I think I will start with pencils and water colors. I will post my attempts here. Lets see how I progress.

I will start with pictures of a cabin in Nebraska on the Platte river. The color of the bricks, the cottonwood trees that surround it have always made it an image that sticks in my mind, so I have attempted to draw and paint it.

Category › cabin , cobble stones , cottonwoods , Nebraska