Painted Turtle on Duralar

I’ve always wanted to draw a turtle. I don’t think this is my best effort, but it was fun all the same.

I’ve always wanted to draw a turtle. I don’t think this is my best effort, but it was fun all the same.
I think using wax pastels and colored pencil on Duralar is my favorite combination of surface and media.

This Grackle spent some time perusing the edge of this pond searching for muddy bits and pieces, probably for a nest. Each time it moved forward in its search, a frog or other little critter would plop into the water, keeping ahead of him, just in case.

A third rooster in less than a week. I’m on a roll.


Well, that didn’t work out quite the way I planned. The one I thought I’d like, the rooster on the sanded paper, turned out muddy in the end with a blah background, and the one I wasn’t certain of, on Duralar, found a home (my husband asked for it). So now I need to draw another rooster. No trouble there—it’s a favorite subject.
