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Shot this over Thanksgiving in Falmouth, on the beach below Nobska Point. That's a little sliver of waves on the shore of Vineyard Sound. It was very cold, but clear and beautiful.
It was a rainy father's day here and I got out in the morning to snap a few photos of flowers with rain drops on them.
The last I think (I ran out of the frames) in this series of 5 x 5 inch color drawings of some of our local butterflies. I don't know why the reddish tint of the sunflower didn't come through on the photo--it looks too brown here. Maybe it's a sign I should go back and add some maroon.
I put up a picture of this as a line art sketch a while ago. Since then, it's been sitting on my drawing table and I decided to add a sunflower and color it to go with the new little series of butterflies and sunflowers. Seems a lot more finished now.
Update: Somehow managed to lose this in my studio before getting it into the frame I made for it... Glad I photographed it and posted it here!
#Inktober2018
I posted the first version of this drawing when I did it on Sept. 30. I did a little more work on it last week, both in pen and graphite. This is the finished version. I thought I'd photograph and post it to record it and store it. This is proving a great go-to place in the clouds for my drawings. I always lose the pictures of them otherwise.
First draft:
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I've had this up on my drawing board for a while and I work on it now and then. It's a big drawing and can absorb a lot of work. I most recently strengthened the ducks and tried to make them stand out more as foreground. Also erased better to clean out the vestiges of my underdrawing, and darkened or textured in more in the lower foreground. Trying to get it to layer right and the water channel to visually flow from front back better. THINK it's done now...
A five panel screen, the bird's nest my eight year old daughter and her friend brought me, some favorite stones, and some favorite feathers on the table I made from local hemlock and a very old barn board. (Artist's studio, Amherst Mass.)
This has moved on and now I'm wishing I'd kept the original and colored it. I guess in the depths of snowy winter the idea of a summer bouquet of flowers in all their colorful glory is more appealing, especially with the flashes of hummingbirds. Maybe I'll see if I have good enough resolution image of it to print it on card stock and hand color it!
The little boy discovering a family of mallards is semi-autobiographical. I used to wander pretty far into the woods and wetlands when I was that age, and I often discovered wildlife--or was discovered. I think that marsh wren is about to start scolding the boy for his intrusion.
12 x 36 inches, pen on paper
This was drawn from a snapshot and it turns out I was tricked by a lovely mimic. I thought I was drawing a Monarch but Peter Granka pointed out that it's actually a Viceroy, which copies the Monarch's colors because birds don't like the taste of Monarchs. I'll have to go out and find a Monarch to draw, too!
Another quick sketch in pen and ink in between chores. This would be fun to color in. Maybe a holiday card in the making?
I did a bunch of drawings from 'rabbit's eye view' in meadows or marshes last summer. I guess the urge to see things green up and the grass get long again is behind this imagined scene that I've been pecking at on my drawing board!
Small scale drawings (5x5 inches) so I've been able to do three today. Sketchy approach to the butterflies, not trying to do technical illustrations, but I hope they have enough detail to look like artist's portraits of each species. If I dive into exact veining and every detail it's not going to go well. Might be come just a schematic and fairly lifeless.
Second drawing in what I think will be a series. Very simple color sketches, on a small scale, for a 'butterfly nook' in a gallery I'm going to propose a show for soon. Pen, colored pencil.
Silhouettes of animals and people done in ink. Took a while. Fun to do! Used in the book, Marie in the Forest, www.websterpress.com
Some of our local butterflies, all on sunflowers because I spent some time in Sept and Aug walking around sunflower fields and enjoying the many visitors to them. These are framed for showing in galleries and open studio. I'm aiming to show more work this winter, even though the prep esp. framing is a hassle it's good for my future work, helpful discipline to think about series and how things might display in frames and on walls. But a distraction from children's books and I want to swing back to them soon!
Dreaming of a white Christmas... Here is the front of our home in Vermont a few years ago during a snowier winter. I hope everyone has a peaceful winter holiday, with friends and family nearby!
Since this seems to be likable and I just had it scanned before framing it, I thought I'd make the scan available too. Cleaner and more reproducible than my snapshot of the work. I'll open the rights because I didn't do it for a book, just for fun, and if it's useful to anyone I'd be honored for them to use it:-) (The rights setting is Attribution--please attribute to the artist, Alex Hiam.)
Zooming in on the center of the drawing because my first photo seems to lack high resolution. It's just sketch style with my pen. Trying to loosen up my ink work since I think I get uptight when I'm working in pen v pencil since its permanent. So, trying to think like it's a bold black pencil!
Going back to the three foot wide drawings (I did several of them last month). I can get inexpensive stock frames and refinish them to not be so very ugly... So this is a fun format and an easy one to frame for a show. Hoping to have a November open gallery this year :-) Raise a little cash for more supplies.
Bird feeder season again here, and a good time to introduce kids to chickadees and other overwintering birds. This is a very quick sketch just to try to keep my hand in. Too busy to work on any illustration projects just now.
I was about to frame this for the show I'm hanging Sunday in the Putney (VT) Public Library, but I thought it needed a little graphite touch to help add contrast and distinguish amongst the many layers. Does this work better?
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They look like they believe it's THEIR bed... Shot by my brother (putneypics on flickr) when Einstein was up in Putney for a visit with his favorite cousin, Peg.
I brought this to Collective Copies in Amherst (Mass) and they put it on their architectural scanner. Much better quality than my earlier snapshot. Posting it here for safe keeping and will explore ways to print it onto decent paper that I can try coloring. The original is leaving my studio hence the desire to get a really good scan for future art play. :-) I guess someone who does digital art would just color it in Photoshop from this scan, but I'm more interested in hand work.
Till The World Ends
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Britney Spears
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Omar Rodriguez V.
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This 8 x 8 inch hand-finished frame is an example of what I'm putting all the butterfly drawing into for upcoming shows. I'm also going to try ordering color prints that I can sell. It would be nice not to sell only my original drawings so I'm going to experiment with prints this winter.
Today's drawing. Still working on the theme of sunflower gardens and their many visitors. I did this one in haste, with a medium pen and less shading and fine work, because I didn't have much time and I wanted to explore the idea of this as a composition. I guess that makes it a sketch in pen.
These leaves were gigantic. A gorgeous lotus is growing in a pool at Stone House Farm (an inn in Amherst, Mass with amazing gardens), and I shot some pictures when one of my daughters was at a craft workshop there. This cropped down shot with just the leaves is my favorite.
This is going to be a difficult one to complete and I may mess it up so I'm going to photograph it in this early draft stage. I inked a flock of mallard drakes going past, and I plan to shade them with a finer tip pen soon. Also I carefully penciled in a building with two fanciful towers and water flowing all through it from an amazing Escher print (but aren't they all amazing). I thought it would be fun to show the ducks passing by it as a kind of homage. Also I may put some ducks in the water for fun if I can although it's small and I'm not great at fine detail stuff. I'm definitely no M.C. Escher! :-)
28 OCT: I posted the finished ink drawing here:
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Hold It Against Me
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Official Music Video "Hold It Against Me":
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Hi guys! this is a "little" work/painting for Britney's HIAM video, I hope u all like it.
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Hugs & Britney rocks ;)