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I just finished this one a few days ago using the stippling technique with a fine liner pen, and a photo that I took as a reference. I followed some inspiration from my mom as she used to do a lot of drawings like this. I really enjoy this process as well because it is so very meditative. I have a few more of these to do, all from the Campbell Creek Trail in Anchorage where I like to “touch grass” and de-stress, always carrying a camera to capture all my wildlife encounters....

I just finished this one a few days ago using the stippling technique with a fine liner pen, and a photo that I took as a reference. I followed some inspiration from my mom as she used to do a lot of drawings like this. I really enjoy this process as well because it is so very meditative. I have a few more of these to do, all from the Campbell Creek Trail in Anchorage where I like to “touch grass” and de-stress, always carrying a camera to capture all my wildlife encounters....

I spent way too much time drawing this, but you know what that’s ok because I enjoyed it - and its almost impossible to feel anything other than joy while drawing sausages. Try it and let me know how it goes. #art #sketchbook #drawing #notai

All-Seeing-Winged-Eyes This is my take on the theme of the all seeing eye, inspired by my own experiences and recent love of birds as well as other artworks I’ve seen and appreciated throughout my life such as those by Alex Grey. This one is from a small sketchbook I’ve been working in when I try to capture random ideas… I hope to make this into a painting whenever I have time, maybe it will be a little more eye catching with color....

A quick sketch of my neighbor’s dog, Groza, who is the goodest girl. This is my neighbor’s dog, Groza, who is the goodest girl. I sketched this in about 10 minutes in my pocket sketchbook using a fine liner pen. A quick sketch of my neighbor's dog, Groza, who is the goodest girl.

stephenfell.net is relaunching! I’m relaunching my website with a new design and a new focus on sharing my sketches, drawings, and photography. I want to share my work with friends and followers without chasing algorithms or training models with my content. I’ve switched from WordPress to Hugo because I was tired of all the plugins and constant updates and having my site hijacked to send spam. I want to have a simple, fast, and secure site that I can control and maintain without worrying about all the overhead of WordPress....

Listening to and seeing birds offers proven mental health benefits, reducing anxiety, stress, and paranoia while enhancing mood. In early February, I put up a bird feeder that I got for my birthday - it’s one of those ones that has a camera in it so you can login and watch the birds dig through the seeds, finding the ones they like best. Every day since, there has been a feeding frenzy of redpolls, red breasted nuthatches, chickadees, Steller’s jays, European starlings, magpies and the occasional squirrel....

The other day I put up the bird feeder that my wife had given me for my birthday last month. It’s one of those feeders with a camera so you can see the birds up close. Within 2 hours, we had a squirrel and shortly after that, chickadees, nuthatches and redpolls. I’m getting more than a hundred pings each day with all the hungry birds that come to feed. Here’s a drawing of one of my visitors, a chickadee who came to rest on one of the lower branches of our oak tree....

Last summer was the first time we’ve been dip-netting in almost 11 years. So we’ve been eating our haul of salmon almost once a week this winter, which is probably a net positive for our health. We’re already making plans to go again in the summer, but I couldn’t help but think, at least for a moment, what if the fish ate people? Time lapse of a fish vacuum packing people....

One day I was in the bathroom, washing my hands and with a quick glance down at the sink, I realized that the spacing on the cold and hot water faucet handles appeared to be about the same as one’s eyes. And at that moment I began imagining myself wearing the faucet on my head, almost like a pair of goggles. And I began to think about the symbolism of the water creating a feedback loop from the brain to the eyes and back into the mouth....