Photos taken during January, 2012, in Eureka and Arcata, California.

Prismacolors, Koh-i-Noors, over original graphite outline.

Scanner darkened the image considerably. I lightened it in PS first, but it’s still darker than it should be.

Some pen sketches, some pencil sketches, a Celtic circle. The sketch of Les is from the Nick Meglin drawing class, as are the pen sketches of my hand.

The Celtic circle was drawn thusly; 1. Use a ruler to draw the center line. 2. mark the line at 2 inches, then at 1/4″ going out. 3. Draw the circles. 4. Use a protractor to mark off 10 second arc intervals. 5. Draw the braids freehand. 6. Erase what you don’t want.

Cow sketch. Staedtler and Micron. 0.1mm.

This started as a planes sketch in graphite. Then I added some form using stippling. Then 90 minutes later I was still stippling. Wet Canvas monthly challenge.

The male osprey was drying his wings on a post. The crow thought he’d have an easy time grabbing an egg from the nearby nest.

The female osprey was still in the nest. No egg for you. Wonderful shot from Flickr. Staedtler 0.3.

HB sketch of face. Used for the pop-art pen sketch below it.

New Micron 0.1 pen on Bee Paper.

More pen work. Mostly Prismacolor Premier, with some Copic. Picture taken from the Wet Canvas RIL, originally shown in the June Pen and Ink Challenge. It’s such crap I didn’t post it in the forum there.

It’s from a monument in Washington, DC.

Staedtler 0.5 (black) and Faber Castell Fine (sepia). About two hours, for the Wet Canvas monthly challenge.