Sunday, April 19, 2015

Working on This Weekend- 4/19/2015

Kinishba Ruins, oil on canvas panel, 11x14inches, unfinished.
I started the sky on this painting today. It was an afternoon in the fall when this picture was taken and the sky wasn't really a rich blue, more of a hazy, dirty blue. The pure mix of blue and white was too bright looking, so I ended up adding Yellow Ochre into the mix to get the right color.
Winter Deer Skull, oil on panel, 16x20inches, unfinished.
A little more work on the background here, I added in greys all over the background, trying to tie together all the sections I've been working on separately until now. Overall, it's kind of a mess at this point, but the end is in sight finally.
Little Pen Sketch, 6x8 inches, copic pen on bristol paper.
This is a little pen drawing, just for fun, using some pictures from Yellowstone as reference.

Here's a few photos from this weekend, the weather has been so nice, with lots of rain, and the plants and animals are growing like crazy.
Butterfly on a thistle.
Whitetail deer.
The deer here are ridiculous, this little buck was only a few feet away from me, and basically ignoring me. But it was mostly dark so the picture is a little grainy.
Guara flower, front view.
I knew there were guaras in this spot, but I couldn't find any when I walked by at first. When I went back that way later, after the sun had set, they were everywhere. Since it was too dark for pictures outside I grabbed one stem and took it home for better lighting. These flowers fall apart very quickly, I'm amazed they even manage to get pollinated.
Guara flower, back view.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

April Flowers

Last week I went for a walk after work, and on a whim I decided to take a picture of every flower I could find. Unsurprisingly, I ran out of daylight before I ran out of flowers. But then again I like the tiny, barely noticed flowers too, and there are tons of those. So here are some of the flowers I found that evening,  mostly identified.
Something Labiatae
Straggler Daisy. All over the place, once you start looking for it, but not very pretty.
Pink Evening Primrose
Prairie Verbena

Celestials... I walked by these first, and on the way back they were already wilting away.
Fluttermill
teeny, tiny flowers, less than 1 mm each.
Crow Poison
Huisache, my favorite tree.
Still not sure what this is, I had never seen it before.
Might be Greenthread.
Maybe Yellow Flax, not really sure.
Some kind of Guara, ridiculously fragile flowers
... totally ugly, but actually a flower.
Vetch
Vervain
Prickly Poppy, with one deformed petal.
Maybe a Lazy Daisy.
Maybe a Lazy Daisy... and a nice grass flower.
itty bitty flower
Blue-Eyed Grass
Snapdragon Vine, looks like the Joker smiling to me.
Bluebonnet. A rather wimpy example of the state flower, but it is growing in a pretty terrible spot.
I'm guessing "Slender Stem Bitterweed".