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Skull study

Study of a human skull. Continually trying to improve my knowledge of human anatomy and form, and that means studying skeletal structure. Charcoal on smooth newsprint.

Quick sketch painting

chicken

oil on gatorboard, 8×10 inches
My good friends Jeff & Kathleen Sieck live up in Santa Ynez, which is basically the cowboy version of Santa Barbara. In keeping with the unspoken moral code of their rural surroundings, they’ve got their own chicken coop, and one day Jeff sent me a great photo of one of their [...]