WhistleDance Art

Indian Dancer

2025-04-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

Watercolor. Copied and enlarged from a photograph for a class project with my students.

Alebrije

2024-10-16T14:53:00.000-07:00

Alebrije class project for Hispanic Heritage Month. Sharpie and brush tip markers.

Sheep on a Hillside

2024-08-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

Finally filling in this big empty wall with some sheep friends.
Acrylic paint on canvas.

Goldfish

2022-08-05T13:14:00.001-07:00

Pigma micron pens in my sketchbook.

Calligraphy Cards II

2021-08-22T08:31:00.001-07:00

A couple more cards I made, with capitals courtesy of The Illuminated Letters Sketchbook, by Jane Sullivan. Wally and Serif are the cats featured on the thank you card. The mice are anonymice. Dip pen and watercolors.

Calligraphy Cards

2021-08-20T08:20:00.003-07:00

An assortment of cards I’ve made for various people over the last year or so. Dip pen and watercolors.

Tandava

2021-01-16T17:19:00.006-08:00

Everyone has a cubby in our classroom, including me. The kids do an art project to make their name signs for their own cubbies, and they informed me that I needed to make a proper sign for mine as well. India ink and dip pen, with watercolor.

Gnomes for Guy

2020-12-20T17:05:00.001-08:00

A Christmas card for Guy. Pentel brush pen, water colors, and gel pens.

Holidays

2020-12-16T17:02:00.001-08:00

From a drawing session with Guy, seeing how many holidays we could include in one picture. Pentel brush pen.

The S.S. Kablooie

2020-07-24T17:11:00.001-07:00

From a drawing session with Guy. Pentel brush pen.

Tree and Barn

2020-06-20T17:18:00.001-07:00

My copy of a painting of Pa’s, done in India ink with dip pen, brush and sponge.

Sunflower

2020-05-07T08:16:00.000-07:00

Birthday card for Lacey, practicing with a dip pen.

Israel Sketchbook

2020-01-24T14:17:00.001-08:00

At the last minute I decided to take a sketchbook to Israel. As luck would have it, and in spite of being very out of practice, I actually ended up using it a bit. All done in Pigma Micron pen and watercolor pencils.

Nebula Christmas Cards

2018-12-24T09:18:00.004-08:00

My Christmas cards for this year. Each is 3"x4" in watercolor. This wasn’t all of them, but most.

Manzanita II

2017-05-04T16:15:00.000-07:00

My favorite manzanita tree from my last trip. I didn’t work up the nerve to draw it when I was there, and the photograph unfortunately turn out to be difficult to draw from. I’d love to keep drawing manzanita trees, though, until I can finally do them justice. Pigma micron pen again, with actual watercolors this time.

Blue Owl

2017-04-28T22:01:00.000-07:00

Another one that showed up in meditation.

Oil Lamp

2017-04-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

Watercolor from an image that came to me in meditation.

Lighthouse

2017-04-26T21:58:00.000-07:00

Copied from an example picture in Watercolor: Painting Smart, by Al Stine.

Manzanita

2017-04-25T20:57:00.000-07:00

Sketch of the manzanita tree behind my cabin at the Ananda Meditation Retreat. Done with a pigma micron pen and Albrecht-Durer watercolor pencils.

Purple Rose

2017-04-24T21:54:00.000-07:00

A watercolor from one of Chidambar’s many glorious rose photos.

Koi

2017-03-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

Trying some negative space painting.

The Giraffe

2017-03-05T16:33:00.001-08:00

Another digital painting, again from one of last year’s poems. Though a completely different style this time, obviously. In a pleasant bit of irony, the font used here is called “The Happy Giraffe.”

Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5.

The Owl

2017-02-22T11:49:00.001-08:00

Last year I wrote a bunch of animal poems for NaPoWriMo, with the intention of eventually illustrating them and maybe even making a book. Life got crazy and sidetracked that project for a while, but here’s one of them, finally.

Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5.

Ananda Moyi Ma

2017-02-04T12:23:00.000-08:00

Ananda Moyi Ma, painted from a photograph. This is my first piece done entirely digitally, start to finish, using a Wacom Intuos tablet and ArtRage 4.5. Probably not the easiest picture to start learning with, but I'd had this in mind to paint for a while, so there we go. Working with a tablet and software takes at least as much getting used to as any traditional media, but it's starting to be fun as I get the hang of it.

Birthday Hedgehog

2016-06-08T12:25:00.000-07:00

I felt like drawing something silly on my birthday. Hedgehogs have trouble with birthday balloons, unfortunately.

Colored pencils.