New work from my studio. This is a new ongoing series of charcoal drawings based on memory and using on-site sketches to recall selective elements of space and time. I am really excited about these new works and ideas I have for showing them to create a unique experience for the viewer.
Colorado Trail 1
Chimborazo 1
Valles Caldera 1
Toolik 1
El Moro
El Moro, Detail
El Moro, Detail
West Contrabando Dark Sky Site
We recently spent a long weekend in Big Bend soaking in the massive night skies and glowing morning sunrises out of our tent.
Lunch time view between rides, Pen and Ink, BBRSP
Love this candid of Michelle looking up from the mine shaft
Big Bend Ranch SP has an abandoned mercury mine out in the park to explore
Sun baked textures in the desert
View from Big Bend National Park Hot Springs, Pen and Ink
Michelle and her CHUMBA URSA on Crystal mtn trail, yes, those are all quartz crystals!
The mine area has some cool artifacts like this ole’Chevy
Kept my map handy in my Wanderlust Gear Rattlesnake bag, sweet patch from Everything Will Be Noble thanks to Brent Knepper!
Recent fire damage in the Big Bend Nat. Park, native plants will likely come back strong and happy with new seeds being activated by the fires to grow.
After so much technical plying with the camera I needed to loosen up with some field studies.
On Christmas morning, Santa brought a new sketchbook! Here’s a photo of a longer sketch using the field study from the video as a reference, drawn with Faber Castell PITT pens on 14″x11″, All Media Paper.
I hope everyone enjoyed a great holiday! I’m thankful I was able to spend mine with family, friends and sketchbooks.
I’ve been wanting to sharpen my photo skills. I was fortunate enough to have Suzan and Sal to school me in the finer points of controlling shutter speed, ISO and aperture together to get properly exposed phots while on a nice hike this Christmas Eve. I set myself up with a challenge in the shot below. It was hard to capture a balance between the shadows beneath and the sunny bright rock while keeping the figures in focus. I used a shallow depth of field blurring the closest part of the rock and focusing on the figures. A polarizing filter gives the sky its rich color, deepens the shadow under the rock, and along with shutter speed, subdues the brightness of the sun reflecting off of the rock, allowing me to keep an low open aperture to get the shallower depth of field.
the benthos 