This is the third scratchboard piece that I have done of Nikki. I based this one on the same photograph as the profile done in 2014. The first portrait is…
The animals I draw always kind of come to life for me. It is like I get to know them during the period I draw them, even if we have…
I started this while I was on vacation on Fire Island. I really wanted to work on a larger, nonanimal piece that I had begun at home (but it was…
This is my most recent scratchboard drawing. It is a drawing of my cousins’ dog, Cosby. For the first time I included more than just the dog’s head in the…
This is a drawing of Peanut and Sammy. My friends Michael and David found Sammy about a year ago wandering the streets in Florida, not in very good shape. He…
I am trying to make as many new scratchboard drawings as I can to bring with me to NC at the end of June. I will be going to the…
I made seventeen scratchboard animal portraits during 2013. I had never drawn animals before this year. I love the process of making these drawings—I love scratchboard and I love animals.…
Two weeks of jury duty has ended. Back to my regular hours of working/making art/sleeping. Yay!
Here are three versions of one scratchboard drawing. (1) (left) My original drawing, which I rejected. (2) (middle) I reworked the drawing attempting to make the dog look like it…
