SKETCHBOOK: "Snowbound"

On Thursday, Kansas City got hit with a rather substantial snow storm.  I turned a "snow day" into a nice four-day weekend (using vacation days of course).  Decided to try to sketch a lot while I was home.  The drawing of the apple tree above was done while I was all bundled up, sitting on my back porch this morning.  It was nippy, but so nice and quiet.

Several months ago, I decided to plan for a rainy day (or a snowy one), and took my camera to CABELA'S and a BASS PRO SHOP...both huge sporting goods stores in the area. While I have mixed feelings about taxidermy, I have to admit that the animals stay still a lot longer than in the wild.  Both stores are filled with dramatically posed animals, and I took gobs of photos.  Since I love going to sketch in Natural History museums, this seemed very similar.  So, yesterday and today, I pulled up some of the pics on my computer, and started drawing and painting...in a nice warm house!

By the way...that sketch above is of a wolverine...not a red badger...in case you were wondering.

The happy little snapping turtle, I'm pleased to report, was NOT stuffed.  I took several photos of him while he was swimming in the huge aquarium tanks they have at Cabela's. Okay...that's it for this time!!