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Moneypenny, the Secretary Bird

Buy the Original or Prints:25% goes to support the Kenya Bird Of Prey Trust Shop Now!!! “Moneypenny” the secretary bird from Kenya bird of prey trust Winner, 2022 Artists for Conservation “Honorable Mention” Buy Art Now Watercolor, 30″ x 22″, on Lanaquarelle rough 300lb: $15,000 The Secretary Bird (Sagitarius serpentanius)  About Secretary Birds From the […]

Roy, the Ol Pejeta Chimp

Buy the Original or Prints:25% goes to support the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary Shop Now!!! “Roy” The Chimpanzee from Ol Pejeta (Sweetwaters) Winner, 2022 Artists for Conservation “Medal Of Excellence” award Buy Art Now Mixed Media/Watercolor, 30″ x 22″, on Lanaquarelle rough 300lb: $15,000 The African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) About Chimpanzees From the National Geographic website: What […]

Step-by-step Tim, the giant tusker

Step-by-step Tim, the giant tusker A quick overview of key stages in the painting of Big Tim, one of the last and largest of Kenya’s giant tuskers, who died in March 2020

Adam Schlesinger watercolor mural

Adam Schlesinger backdrop mural Adam, 12 ft x8 ft digital watercolor, output on paper panels glued to foamcore (Click on image then magnifying glass icon to see at full size) Adam Schlesinger, founder and songwriter of Fountains of Wayne (with songs such as “I’m in love with Stacy’s Mom”, “I-95” and “Mexican Wine”, and “Those […]

Big Tim, last of the giant tuskers

Buy the Original or Prints:25% goes to support the Amboseli Trust For Elephants Shop Now!!! Tim, one of the last and largest of the giant tuskers Winner AFC Pollyanna Pickering Award, 2021 Buy Art Now Watercolor, 22″ x 30″, on Lanaquarelle rough 300 lb, 2021. $22,000 The african elephant  (Loxodonta africana) About Giant Tuskers: According to the […]

Watercolor Paper review: Arches 300 lb rough, bright white

9: Arches 300 lb rough, bright white: Arches is the mac-daddy of watercolor papers – pretty much the reigning champion, and for the most part, I can see why. It has a truly beautiful, non-mechanical mould-made texture, with a satiny soft and receptive surface. The bright white is a whiter paper than the natural, as […]

Watercolor Paper review: Saunders Waterford 300 lb cold press

8: Saunders Waterford 300 lb cold press: Saunders Waterford is a sumptuous, luxurious paper. Whil etheir rough is know to be the roughest of the rough textures (on par with Lanaquarelle rough), I found their cold press to have a very subtle texture, much smoother than Arches cold press. Arches is a good point of […]

Watercolor Paper review: Canson Heritage 300 lb rough (reverse side)

4: Canson Heritage 300 lb rough (reverse side): I saw a review in which the reviewer discovered that she had perhaps been using the wrong side of the paper, and she was delighted by the performance of what she thought was the reverse, so just in case, I flipped my test swatch over and painted […]

Watercolor Paper review: Canson Heritage 300 lb rough

3: Canson Heritage 300 lb rough: I had heard good things about Canson heritage (admittedly mostly from Canson), so I got hold of some samples and added them to my paper review. Ultimately I was disappointed with the fast absorption (quick drying time), which did not give me enough time to lay out a complex […]

Watercolor Paper review: Hahnemühle 300 lb cold press

7: Hahnemühle cold press 300 lb: I was trying to get hold of Hanhnemühle Cezanne paper, but they sent me only stock labeled ‘Watercolour”. I’m not sure if they no longer make Cezanne, but I couldn’t find it on their website. Testing what was in front of me I was pleasantly surprised. I think this […]

Watercolor Paper review: Canson Heritage 300 lb cold press (reverse side)

6: Canson Heritage cold press 300 lb (reverse side): In pursuit of this fabled superior reverse side of a Canson Heritage stock, I tested the reverse side of the cold pressed grano fino. The reverse has less surface sizing than the front side and was so utterly unremarkable that I didn’t bother creating a step […]

Watercolor Paper review: Canson Heritage 300 lb cold press

5: Canson Heritage cold press 300 lb: This is the second heritage stock I’m testing (third if you count testing the reverse of the 300 lb rough). The texture is, as expected, subtler than the rough, and finer than a typical cold press (almost too fine, for my liking). The paper feels luxurious, but a […]

Watercolor Paper review: Stonehenge Aqua 300 lb cold press

2: Stonehenge Aqua cold press 300 lb: Here I’m testing out a sample of Stonehenge Aqua, kindly provided for me by Michael Ginsburg of Legion Paper in New York. Stonehenge Aqua is a European made paper that was introduced in 2012; it balances out the Stonehenge Print & Drawing range that was first introduced in […]

Watercolor Paper review: Lanaquarelle 300 lb rough

Watercolor paper tests & reviews So, this week I’ve been busy testing watercolor paper swatch samples to try an dfind a replacement for Arches rough 300 lb, the paper I’ve been using for a couple of decades. Arches is presenting me a cfew challenges – I know it’s the “MacDaddy” of watercolor papers, but that […]

Chess pieces

I Luv new york poster 3D rendered model, Strata 3DCX, 1997. (Click on image, then magnifying glass icon to see at full size) About the models: I started the knights with a set of profile paths (much like a CAT scan takes sliced images) in Illustrator, then tilted and positioned each one in 3D space. […]

Step-by-step Little Sparrowhawk

Step-by-step Little Sparrowhawk A quick overview of key stages in the painting of Sax, the Augur Buzzard (who started out as “Hero” a Shrika! Step 1: Wrong Reference!I found what I thought was a photo of a Little Sparrowhawk on and old Facebook page – the Naivasha Owl Centre: , run by the Kenya Bird […]