Watercolor sketches of horsetail plant and ferns

Rough pencil sketch of a shelf of orchids, with some orchids hanging down from the shelves.

#WeeklySketch

Did some life drawing at my local conservatory! The pencil sketch is a window into their orchid room, which isn't open to the public. On closer inspection, some of the hanging orchids are just growing out of wood and not in a pot, which was neat.

#SciArt #BotanicalArt #LifeDrawing

Week 1103: “Hello Kitty x Hellraiser” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

Pinhead Kitty

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #hellokity #sanrio #hellraiser #lamentconfiguration

Week 1102: “Chuck Norris” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

Walker Texas Ranger

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #ChuckNorris

Rough watercolor sketch of a V-shaped flock of Greater White-fronted Geese in flight, with 2 Snow Geese mixed into the flock.

Life's been busy, so my #WeeklySketch is very rough this week.

Last week I had a big flock of Greater White-fronted Geese fly overhead, and I noticed 2 Snow Geese mixed in!

#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #SundaySketches

Small watercolor sketches in the Chinese xieyi "spontaneous" style, including a Monarch butterfly perched on a purple coneflower, morning glories, a pink lily, a Black-capped Chickadee, and a Northern Cardinal.

#WeeklySketch

Practicing xieyi on unsized xuan. It's a very absorbent paper, making it a very unforgiving technique. Some of these I like, some not so much, but that's the point of practicing!

#Watercolor #FineArt #AnimalArt #SciArt #BirdArt

Week 1101: “Thaw” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

The Thawing of Austin Powers 🇬🇧
Yeah Baby! 😜

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #austinpowers #90s

Watercolor sketch of a cheese bun on a light-blue plate

Photo reference of a cheese bun on a light blue plate on a dark brown wooden table.

2nd #WeeklySketch

I decided to dip my toes in life drawing and was going to go to our local conservatory...but we're getting a blizzard so I decided practice by painting food at home 😆 I baked some whole-wheat asiago buns, so I thought I'd start there!

#Watercolor #Lifepainting #FineArt

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Week 1100: “Greek Mythology” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

Poseidon

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #greekmythology #poseidon

Rough pencil sketch of a Red-tailed Hawk nest in the crook of a tree, with one hawk standing on the edge of the nest and one flying in from above carrying a stick in its beak.

#WeeklySketch

There's a nesting pair of Red-tailed Hawks along the highway on my commute, so I can never get a good look at them. Some of my weekly sketches may be too finished to be sketches, but this one definitely is a rough sketch!

#BirdArt #SciArt #Sketch #AnimalArt

Week 1099: “2nd Chance Redraws” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

The Baroness (G.I. Joe)

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #gijoe #baroness #redraw

Ink sketch of a male yellow-shafted Northern Flicker perched on a stump

#WeeklySketch

A Northern Flicker from one of my photos.

#BirdArt #SciArt #PocketBrushPen #FineArt

Week 1098: “Indie Comic” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

Featuring Ashes issue 4
@ashescomicbook.bsky.social
Written by @jmiah720.bsky.social
Art by me!

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #ashescomicbook

Watercolor painting of a Dark-eyed Junco that is very puffed up.

Line art of a Dark-eyed Junco that is very puffed up.

#WeeklySketch

Dark-eyed Junco, the most borbtacular winter borb!

Is this even still a sketch? I think so I was experimenting with style and it's much less intensive than my usual work. I used a very cute ref photo from Gordon Magee on iStockphoto for this.

#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt

Micron pen sketch of a Canada Goose from the neck up. The goose is hissing, thrusting its head forward and sticking its tongue out.

#WeeklySketch

Decided to do something silly 😅 I thought about painting a Canada Goose violently hissing for my Life List series, but it might not fit in well with the style.

#BirdArt #SciArt #Sketch #FineArt #AnimalArt

Week 1097: “Pokemon” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

Charizard 🔥
* @fivebelow HQ Fine Stroke hot press watercolor paper
* Daniel Smith watercolors

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #polemon #charizard

Week 1096: “Roadside America” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

“World’s Largest Key”
Casey, Illinois (Route 49, Interstate 57)

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #worldslargestkey

Watercolor painting of the ocean surface on a narrow piece of watercolor paper.

I'm calling this a #WeeklySketch, I tried out Julia Barminova's dry-on-wet technique for painting water. I definitely want to keep practicing this! And adapt it to painting lake water, where there can be more contrasting greens, browns, and grays reflected.

#Watercolor #FineArt #ArtSky #Ocean

Week 1095: “Bob’s Burgers” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

* 5x7 cold press watercolor paper
* Scriptract watercolors

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #bobsburgers #animation

Ink drawing of a Great Gray Owl profile

#WeeklySketch

A Great Gray Owl for #SuperbOwlSunday!

#BirdArt #SciArt #FineArt #AnimalArt

Week 1094: “Jason Statham” is this week’s theme for #Sketchblog @the_original_sketch_please

* 5x7 cold press watercolor paper
* Angora watercolors
* Holbein Acryla Gouache

#thearchangelo #archangelocrelencia #photonnmo #photon_nmo #sketchplease #weeklysketch #JasonStatham

Pen sketch of a horse from the side

#WeeklySketch

Horses are weird, sorry! I'm planning to draw or paint one for Chinese New Year, so here's a quick 20 minute pen sketch as practice.

#ArtSky #Mammals #SciArt #FineArt

Two purple monochrome watercolor portraits of Shoebill storks. The storks are facing away from each other, one with its bill open. Tubes of Winsor and Newton and Holbein paints are placed next to each portrait, indicating which tube was used to paint them.

For this #WeeklySketch, I did a Shoebill study comparing Winsor and Newton and Holbein Artist's watercolors. They're pretty wacky birds, I may never see a wild one, but one can dream about global birding trips!

#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #ArtYear #AnimalArt #monochrome

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a drawing of an abandoned wooden house in Finland. At this stage the drawing consists only of some brown lines on paper.

in many ways I'm not enjoying myself with this drawing, but I'm persisting anyway. The good thing about drawing an abandoned wooden building is it doesn't matter if the lines are off, because the buildings tend to be warped and distorted anyway. #artistsofbluesky #weeklysketch

Old Mill again, different conditions! I love Moneting it (depicting the same scene in different lighting and at different times of the year.) #WeeklySketch #markerdrawing #artistsofbluesky #copicmarkers

An alcohol marker drawing of a derelict grain mill nearly in silhouette. The sun has very nearly gone down. The road in front of the mill is wet and shiny, dirty snow has piled up against the footpath.

Trying to up the pace of my drawings as I have an exhibition coming up, so here's the #weeklysketch of a literal OLD MILL round the corner from our place #copicmarkers #markerdrawing #artistsofbluesky

An alcohol marker drawing of an apartment building in the snow. The road in front of the apartment is quite dirty, and the sky above is cloudy. The colours in the drawing are mostly white, grey, greyish yellows and cold blues.

Calling it - finished. #Weeklysketch

An incomplete drawing of a block of apartments under a cloudy sky

A slightly more complete drawing of a block of apartments under a cloudy sky, surrounded by snowy trees

it's happening! #Weeklysketch #artadventcalendar #workinprogress

Been a long time since my last drawing! Once again trying to not worry about making something perfect, but I can't help fixating on it and it makes me not want to draw. Anyway, finally overcame that today. #WeeklySketch #ArtAdventCalendar

Weekly Sketch. Cyclops
#weeklysketch #cyclopsmarvel #sketch #marvelheroes

Weekly Sketch. Spider Man 🕷
#weeklysketch #spidermansketch #3dartwork #sketch