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Five reasons why I’ve taken a break from YouTube
I’ve been on YouTube for more than a year. I achieved my goal of posting videos, but I have learned a lot. In the end, I have decided to just keep doing my day job and try to enjoy drawing rather than turning it into a part time job. I won’t stop completely but here…
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Mt Spurr
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…
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On the beach…
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.
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Tugboat and Barge
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…
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Let’s draw a squirrel on the fence.
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…
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Mountain sunset sketch
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…
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A Self Portrait
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…
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Isometric Cityscape
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…