turtle swimming

sea turtle

turtles

from that day when I drew sea turtles as infants, here are the sketches of adults:

close up of the head:

turtles 5

turtle sketched from life at the local nature center (much better than last time!)

and the skeleton of an ancient species sketched at the museum

Reptile Studies

In preparation for my next painting, which is simmering inside my head, I have been going through old sketchbooks studying drawings that I did of lizards and similar creatures, and making new ones as well. Here are a few that I will be using as reference for the painting.



Reference being a very loose term. They will be sources for gesture, structure and textures, not copied directly into the painting.



All of these drawings were done from life. The first three were drawn with ink pens, at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.