Grizz

I thought this would be a fun shot to do.

Boreal Owl

I enjoy drawing and painting birds and especially owls.

Fox in Winter

I really like the foxes colours against the snow. I did this on velour paper using chalk pastel. The velour paper allows you to get a nice soft feeling when doing animals.

Cougar

I haven't used pastel in years and thought I'd like to try it again. I had a lot of fun doing this picture.

"A Fresh Mount"

Pronghorn on the Plains/ Illustration Friday

Pronghorn are one of the animals that live on the vast prarie in Canada, our plains. Unfortunatly I didn't use a good quality paper and it caused ripples in the sky.

REGGIE

This is a portrait I did of a friends horse "Reggie", in water color and pencil crayon. He won the Queens Plate in the 90's and recently passed away. He will be missed on our trail rides through the Ganaraska forest.

Bugs

I met Chuck Jones in college and managed to get his autograph on this old peice of animation paper. A classic!

Leggettes Old Barn

I did this little sketch of our friends old barn before they did renovations and tore down part of it to re build. It had real character.

Illustration Friday/ Scale

Illustration Friday/ Wedding

This topic reminded me of the poem, " The Owl and The Pussycat"

Ilustration Friday/Animal Alphabet "A" to "Z"

Alligator, Beaver, Chimp & Chicken, Duck, Elephant,

Fox , Giraffe, Hippo, Ibex, Jaguar, Kangaroo, Lion, Mink, Nightingale, Otter, Penguin, Quail, Raccoon, Skunk, Tiger, Ulysses Butterfly, Vulture, Wolf, Xenops, Yack Zebra.

Illustration Friday/Twist

Here are some twisty otters. They were done in watercolor with some pencil crayon. I haven't posted in quite some time and wanted to do something. This didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to but it's a start. I should have done this on better paper, it didn't take to water very well and there are wobbles in it, but it kinda adds to the water effect.

Polar/Illustration Friday

A Polar Parade! The picture was a bit too large for my scanner, but I got most of it.

Illustration Friday/Green

My son suggested this one.

Illustration Friday/ Snap!

I haven't posted in a while, I've been very busy, but I wanted to post for this topic. I had to do it quickly and chose to do a more stylized design. Hmmm... Not too sure what I think yet, but here it is.

Illustration Friday/ Wired

The first thing I thought of when I saw this weeks topic was our "wired" Boarder Collie, Ben.

Illustration Friday/ Hide

Illustration Friday/Communication 2

Illustration Friday/ Communication

Illustration Friday/ Gravity

Illustration Friday/ Crash

Illustration Friday/ Red

Bulldog

1880's/Illustration Friday

Buzz/Illustration Friday

A group of gabby geese.

Northern Hawk Owl

'Gannets ( chicks& adults)

Here are some Gannet chicks as well as some adult studies.

Gannets ( adults)

I did a couple of pages of these birds as a study for a show I worked on. I really enjoy the development side of my job. I love researching and discovering new things.

Otter Cowpoke

This was a little sketch I did for my husband. You'll notice the otter theme reoccurring. They're one of my favortie animals.

Illustration Friday/ Phoenix

Illustration Friday/Peace

Sasha

I did this horse portrait of a friends mare, Sasha, in chalk pastel on a sheet of velour paper. I really enjoy this medium. You can get a very soft look. Sorry for the photo quality, but this is a scan of a photo that wasn't very clear.

Arabian in Hackamore

This is a drawing I did for some friends who breed Arabian horses. Their buissiness was called, "Hackamore Arabians".

Cowboy & Horse

This was a exercise for me using pencil , concentrating on lights and darks without colour to get in the way. I left some areas unfinished not to get too wrapped up in details. My scanner wasn't big enough to show the whole drawing.

Tortoise

This was something I did while at the ROM in Toronto trying to loosen up and have some fun with colored inks.

Baby Duck

A very quick, rough sketch.

Jack Rabbit

Girafes

I did a small study of a girafe head and then decided to have some fun with a characture.

Birds

I am very interested in how a birds wings work. They are amazing to watch and I'm never get bored watching them around the many bird feeders I have in my yard.

In Mid Air

Chickadee

This is a small sketch I did of one of my favortie birds.

Sheep at the Royal

I did this sheep at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto as a pencil sketch.

Owl

This was an owl I did for Redwall. It didn't make the final design, but I had fun doing it.

Crow

Here are a couple of veiws of a crow character.

Barn Owl

This Barn Owl was one of the owls I researched for a character .

Making a Mountain out of a Mousehill

These little guys are piled on one another and make a comical sketch.

Blackbirds

These were fun to draw. Birds can be challenging for me, but I really enjoy drawing them.

Gulls

Here are some gulls I designed for one of the shows I worked on.

The Otter End

This is the last of the otter sketches for now, though I know I'll be drawing more of these guys.

Otters

Some more otters.

Otterly fun!

Here are some of my favorite critters, river otters. I've done a few pages of these fun creatures. They never cease to fascinate me.

Chippy

Here's a quick watercolor sketch.