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Diving into the entomological world with my latest piece: an ox beetle in watercolor. These tiny titans duel with their horns, echoing ancient battles. In this piece, strength and delicacy collide, capturing the beetle’s essence on paper with QoR Watercolors and a steady hand. 🖌️🐞✨#sciart
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Dawn’s light revealed a sketched buffalo on my page, a serene venture in shadows and water. Crafted with delicate Pentel strokes in my Etchr sketchbook–a peaceful start to the day. Coffee shop sketching is so meditative #sciart
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Captivated by the vibrant koppie foam grasshopper from South Africa! Blues, purples, reds, and ochre come alive in my latest piece. These toxic beauties (based on their consumption of milkweed), akin to the monarch caterpillar, were a challenge but rewarding to draw. Watercolor on hot press #sciart
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Just finished a detailed grey wolf sketch, reflecting on my course and teaching insights. Inspired by Dotty Weber’s photo, I spent 3-4 hours using 2B, 4B Pentel Graphgear pencils, and various tools for depth and texture, capturing the essence of snow and light. #sciart
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🎨✨ Tried something a bit challenging – sketching the majestic Migzi at Mādahòkì Farm. The Ojibwe Spirit Horse is more than just a breed; it’s a living piece of Indigenous heritage, the only one known to Canada.
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Iridescent art in focus! My A6 Etchr sketchbook & Art Toolkit palette were essential in painting the vibrant cuckoo wasp. Thanks to Albert Cardona’s photo reference and my Pentel brush, this piece shines.✨🎨🐝
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Joined my first Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists sketchpod. We chatted, then sketched in solitude. Our wisteria pods in ink and watercolor, defying local climates. Sketched with a sepia Micro 005 in an Etchr sketchbook, painted with QoR in an ArtToolKit palette with a Pentel waterbrush #sciart
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Dove into a neighbor’s gifted pose book and tried sketching something new. Not my typical art subject. Challenging yet rewarding, it’s been ages since my 2H pencil danced across the paper to capture these subtle shadows. 🎨✏️📖
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My second piece from this morning. Sketching this horse brought a peaceful end to my paint and sketch at the coffee shop. Each stroke with my pencil felt like a step closer to its serene spirit. 🐴✨ #sciart
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Sketchbook sneak peek: 🐆 Snow leopard in watercolor. Precision meets spontaneity in a dance of detail and texture. Contemplating a larger oil version. Trying to achieve the fur texture with watercolor at such a small scale was challenging. #sciart
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Sketched two crows with my Pentel pencils while testing a new Leuchtturm1917 120 sketchbook. A true study in the hidden hues of black. 🎨🖤 Each feather a dance of light and shadow, revealing that graphite art is never just black and white. #sciart
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Just completed “Bare Essence Standing,” an 11x17 study of a milkweed in graphite, inspired by the theme “dessicated.” This plant’s resilience, crucial to monarchs, reminds me of nature’s quiet strength. #sciart 🌿✏️🦋
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Sketching a bison’s majesty 🦬✏️, inspired by a photo from Elijah Pilchard via Unsplash. This piece using my Pentel Graphgear 1000 echoes the spirit of the vast herds that once dominated North America. Did you know they can smell scents 2 miles away and can run at speeds up to 35 mph? #sciart
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Join me March 16th for a free live demo/giveaway on YouTube www.youtube.com/live/r3mS… This is part of the launch of my new drawing course that begins March 23rd. 25% off, if you sign up before March 15th. learn.etchrstudio.com/pages/mik…
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Finished my first oil painting. This chickadee seemed like a suitable subject. Painted alla prima over a couple of evenings. Learned a lot and so much more to go. Happy to be playing in this medium but not leaving the others behind.
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Spent some time in a coffee shop last night waiting to pick up my daughter so I thought I would sketch the fox that made use of the bench I had made.
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I needed a mahl stick for oil painting so I designed and printed this and added some hockey tape for friction. Uses a 3/4” dowel. Works well and I can hang it on the canvas or board when not in use.
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Don’t let your doubts clip your wings. Be like a puffin—dive into the sea of creativity with boldnes. With just a pencil or stroke of graphite, you can create worlds that have never been seen before. Embrace the adventure! Rendered in pencil (2B and 4B) using the Pentel Graphgear 1000. #sciart
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Had a fantastic time at Artawa’s event at Ottawa Art Gallery. Enjoyed catching up with podcast guest Kina. Sketched a watercolor mouse & started a graphite puffin among 20-30 art lovers. Creativity flourished in 2.5 hours!
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Started with just two little frogs and couldn’t stop there – had to give them a whole crew of colorful companions! 🐸 Each marker-made frog has hopped out with its own vibrant personality. It’s amazing how one splash of color leads to another, creating a whole ecosystem of art.
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Absolutely loving the playtime with the Brush Sign Pen Twins from Pentel Canada 🎨✨ Not my go-to medium since I’ve never dabbled in markers, but these beauties made the experience super fun and straightforward! Etchr cold press Perfect Sketchbook #sciart
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Are you an urban sketcher looking for inspiration? I pulled a dozen episodes of my Drawing Inspiration podcast into this starter pack. Enjoy! drawinginspiration.fm/start/
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Morning sketch session with my favorite subject, the black-capped chickadee! ✏️🐦 Kept it simple today, focusing on our little bird and leaving the tree texture for another time. Want to draw together? Watch this space for more! 🌿👀
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Kicked off my morning with a graphite sketch of an alpaca that’s been waiting in the shadows. Tackling the diverse textures of its hair was daunting, but I embraced the challenge! 🎨✏️ Created using a Pentel Orenz Nero .5mm with 4B lead and a 2.5mm 6B clutch pencil.
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🐸💙 Meet the vibrant ambassador of sustainable living, the blue poison dart frog, captured here in watercolor. It was certainly a challenge mixing these blues and doing it on-site at Equator Coffee in Almonte. I’ve come to rely on the QoR watercolors and the Pentel water brush for this work.
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