Let’s Celebrate International Whale Shark Day! International Whale Shark Day is celebrated each year on August 30th. Did you know that whale sharks are the earth’s largest fish — up to sixty feet long, are docile filter-feeders, can dive up to 6,000 feet...
If you’d like to learn cool facts about sloth biology and also how to sketch them, you are in the right place! Watch the recording below of a live workshop I led as a fundraiser for the Toucan Rescue Ranch, a wildlife rescue center that saves around 100 sloths...
It’s International Painted Dog Day! International Painted Dog Day and National Dog Day are celebrated each year on August 26th. You can learn all about the dog family and painted dogs, also known as African Wild Dogs, in the replay of my live, online workshop...
Celebrating Shark Week By Drawing Sharks! Each year in mid-July sharks are celebrated around the world during the annual Shark Week events hosted by the Discovery Channel as well as the Shark Fest events hosted by National Geographic. Below you’ll find video...
Celebrating Snakes of the World! In honor of World Snake Day (July 16th), I am sharing a video of sketching a King Cobra! I demonstrate my graphite pencil technique of drawing of a King Cobra in this video that is sped up at 20x real life. If you’d like to...
In honor of the Easter Bunny, I’ve created a video workshop below where you can learn all about rabbits – both real and fictional – and then learn how to create realistic drawings of them too! To follow along with the step-by-step rabbit drawing...
Sunflowers are the National Flower of Ukraine and represent peace and solidarity. Since the war began I was inspired to create a video tutorial on drawing and painting sunflowers. So, in the video workshop below, you’ll learn about the sunflower family as well...
Learn About Pandas and Bamboo Trees March 16th is National Panda Day, so in honor of these charismatic members of the bear family, you can learn about them and their favorite food; bamboo leaves, in a recording of my online video workshop below. If you’d like to...
Below you’ll find a video demonstration set to mellow music showing how I quickly sketch birds in the field. You might enjoy following along. Just get a pencil and paper then download Birds of Oregon Images that I use in the video. GESTURE SKETCHING OREGON BIRDS...
Discover and Sketch Woodpeckers in a Video Workshop Woodpeckers are a global and diverse family of over 230 species. Whether you love ’em or hate ’em, everyone’s got an opinion about woodpeckers and finds them a raucous and intriguing group of birds!...
