A giant among seals.
By the appearance of this skull you could never guess that during its life this seal had an elephantine trunk that drooped down below its muzzle.
Pencil on paper.
studies
New Painting - Saiga Antelope
Saiga Antelope for Jaimie
A strange and wonderful animal for my lady.
16” X 11”
Acrylic on Panel
detail
progress
New Painting - Sand Shrimp
These creeps have been burrowing through mud flats since the supercontinent Pangea began breaking apart, and the first flowers bloomed. I can find living ones and fossilized ones within 20 miles of each other.
Mud, or sand shrimps are widely regarded as a supurb fishing bait for salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon. A nightmare to keep on a hook, use an egg loop, Miracle Thread or a similar elastic thread.
My reference specimens were dug near Seaside, Oregon, taken home and photographed.
9” X 14” Acrylic on Panel
Detail
Above: A Freshly dug, live shrimp, I pumped fresh from a mudflat.
Opposite: Claw parts; carpus, propodus, fixed finger and dactylus of a fossilized shrimp I found along the Columbia River.
Shrimp anatomy and natural history reference - https://depositsmag.com/2017/07/04/the-abundant-yet-understudied-fossil-record-of-ghost-shrimps/
Molding and Casting a Starry Flounder for Reference
I caught this small Starry Flounder while Surfperch fishing. It was hooked deep and wouldn’t have survived if I had released it, so I decided to keep it and make a half cast for reference.
Cleaned and dried.
Placed in bedding material to midline.
Plaster negative dried and sealed.
Resin positive.
Wild Turkey Drawing
Pencil on Newsprint
Cassowary Study Drawings
Pencil on Newsprint
Study of a Drought Horse
8” X 10”
Acrylic on Panel
Lucky
Appaloosa - Iconic Spotted Horse of the West
in studies
Carefully bred spotted horses called Appaloosas were named after the Palouse River that runs through the traditional land of the Nez Perce.
8” X 10” Acrylic on Panel
