Sketching a Shark for Shark Week!

Sketching a Shark for Shark Week!

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. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SHARK...
World Snake Day

World Snake Day

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...
Discover and Sketch Rabbits

Discover and Sketch Rabbits

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...
Celebrate Ukrainian Sunflowers

Celebrate Ukrainian Sunflowers

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...
Giant Pandas and Bamboo

Giant Pandas and Bamboo

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...
Gesture Sketching Birds

Gesture Sketching Birds

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...

Neotropical Woodpeckers

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!...
Bleeding Heart Flowers

Bleeding Heart Flowers

Discover and Sketch Bleeding Hearts Continuing my Valentine’s Day-themed fuchsia-colored posts, today is all about a heart-shaped flower! Bleeding Hearts are a favorite garden ornamental native to eastern Asia. As their name suggests, their flowers are pink and...
World Hippo Day

World Hippo Day

Discover and Sketch the Hippopotamus In celebration of World Hippopotamus Day! WATCH MY LIVE HIPPO SKETCHING EVENT ON INSTAGRAM (Feb 17, 2025 at 1 PM PST) If you’d like to follow along to the sketching demonstration, gather some pencils and then download the...
Draw and Paint Anthurium Flowers

Draw and Paint Anthurium Flowers

All About Anthuriums and How to Paint Them In the video recording below I teach you all about Anthurium flowers and the intriguing family of tropical plants that they belong to. You’ll learn about some of the weird and fascinating members of this family and...