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A drawing of a cardinal

Here’s a shot of Mt. Spurr taken 2025-03-31 from the Glenn Alps trail head overlook. We took my old “boss” David up there for some sightseeing. While we were there, a paraglider landed next to us. She was very nice, answering all of our questions that she’s probably been asked a thousand times from other bystanders. And funnily enough, we actually had a mutual friend in common.

Here’s one from our trip to Seward last weekend. This is on the beach in front of Miller’s Landing. I recorded a YouTube short for it here.

https://youtube.com/shorts/59JW8Kt2giQ?si=ow9JLhk43oR07vkF Hey Everyone Here is a sketch from a photo I took on my phone back in 2021. We must have been on a walk or something on the coastal trail and I decided to take a picture of the barge in the water. I think it may be two vessels - a tugboat and a barge sitting next to each other. Anyway, I used a 0.5mm mechanical pencil with a graphite hardness of ‘B’, blending stump for the clouds and a 3B pencil for the dark spots down in the deadly mud flats below. ...

Hey everyone, Steve here for another drawing session. If you’re an artist, I’m going to let you in on a little secret - get a camera and keep it handy. It can be the one on your phone or something more advanced. Take a lot of pictures, and try to get a feel for what makes a photo interesting because a lot of that skill also applies to drawing. Over time, your photo library will grow and you’ll have a lot of material to work from - it feels a lot less like cheating when you reference your own photos. ...

Hey everyone, Thanks for tuning in. It’s a sunny, but lazy Saturday so let’s do a quick sketch here in my sketchbook. For this one I’m using a 3H pencil and a 12B faber castell matte pencil. The scene I’m drawing is along the turnagain arm just south of Anchorage. You can see a few chunks of ice sitting in the frozen mud. Also a quick thank you to everyone who came to my birthday party last week and for the thoughtful gifts and wonderful artwork, I am grateful to have such good friends. ...

Me Drawing Me Is it weird to draw yourself? Every drawing is a form of self expression, but this is the most direct form of that expression. For me, drawing is a hobby and I tend to focus more on the skill than the creativity, but the result is the same, the manifestation of an extension of the self that persists afterwards. And that is one of the reasons I keep doing this. ...

A doodle from my noodle. New Video on YouTube.

Squirrel Sketch I’ve got another drawing of our squirrel friend. Here she is eating some almond flakes, strategically placed on the fence where I could snap a reference picture. This drawing was done in a small sketchbook with various wooden pencils and a fine eraser. I started it a few months ago and left it unfinished for one reason or another. Here is my YT Short, finishing up the sketch. ...

An isometric cityscape, the likes of which I might have drawn as a kid, contains elements from real life - a reflection of random thoughts on paper. In the upper right corner is a garden that we built this summer in our front yard. It was designed to match the neighbors’ garden. On the left is some industrial process equipment, similar to things I’ve seen on job sites when I worked in the field. There’s also a train, because in the future there will be more trains. ...