WIP - Pronghorns

This is one I just started today, but, I have done a bit of researching and studying to get the anatomy down and to make sure I don't do something silly in my composition like make the pronghorns jump a fence...lol!  (Pronghorns do not jump!)   Anyway, this is just the start and even this drawing will likey undergo some changes before I get too much farther into this. 

This was my intial sketch that inspired the paintings.. I'm not re-creating this in the painting.  Rather, I am drawing a similar but differant image.

Here I started drawing onto my hardboard panel using soft vine charcoal.  I then went over the vine charcoal with the hard charcoal pencil.

the finished drawing...

and, the roughed-ing under painting.  More to come soon!

Road Trip and Computer Woes!

Hi, y'all! I've been playing hooky from everything art! Over the July 4 weekend, I took an impromptu road trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico and spent a few days visiting my sister and her family. I took tons of photos of the gorgeous scenery...mostly from the moving car. I wanted as many landscape and animal pics as I could get to add to my photo files that I paint from. I took over 300 pics and once I was home again, I uploaded all to my computer. !!!

Well, the computer had been acting up lately, and, adding 300+ hi-res images crashed it before I could save them to disks! I couldn't get it IT working again, so, I was without internet access until just this week...talk about withdrawal! Did I spend all this time painting and building up a stock of new work to list once I could get online again, taking advantage of all this uninterupted time to be very creative and productive? Nope. I did do some sketching in my "Centaurs n Dragons" sketchbook, a book I started in 2006 and have been very lax about filling, otherwise, I lazed around the house reading books and watching the telly! Now the computer is fixed and working fine, but, all those photos I took on the trip may be lost. I'm not sure yet, and, I sure hope they can still be salvaged. I'm still not in the mood to get back to painting, although that is no excuse...I really will get back to it soon, though, I promise - new pics or not!