Brian's Notebook

Sketches, mostly birds, in ballpoint pen and colored pencil:

I have been taking a break from painting in order to study up on some aspects of art that have always eluded me. How long I'll be busy w...

I can't always just work for the market; I'd go crazy that way. I'm an artist, not a money making machine. And thus, in between,...

After an evening storm, another batch of fallen leaves and blooms. Ballpoint pen and watercolor pencil on paper:

Autumn in the southern hemisphere. I have long loved weathered late-season leaves, and this time of year there is such a glut one doesn'...

I have been rather busy, getting my latest children's book ready for publication. It's the first one with lots of color pictures, so...

I have gotten it in my crazy head to join NaNoWriMo this year. Even though I'm going to cheat  - the story I have in mind is another twe...

Coloring picture; feel free to print out a copy. And perhaps color it in the style of Van Gogh?

A study in colored pencil after one of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel figures; 297 x 210 mm (A4):

Found a whole carpet of these colourful flowers under a tree. I have no idea what kind of tree, but they made for a nice subject for a few s...

A sketch of a Black-collared Barbet ( Lybius torquatus ). Ballpoint pen and coloured pencil on printer paper, about 20cm x 20cm.