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"Snack Fly" Made up of various chips, pretzels and crackers. View the full article

"Golden Gobstopper" A quick sketch to explore the character of this fly. It will be the subject of a full painting soon. View the full article

"Veil That Tail" Watercolor. View the full article

" Bead Head Nymph 2" I have not given more attention to the lowly nymph as of late. So here is to the bead head nymph! View the full article

"4th of July Fly" Happy 4th of July! View the full article

"Parachute" Watercolor abstract of a parachute. View the full article

The winner for the month of June is... Karen Dockstader! View the full article

"Feather Duster Study" This is a quick form and color study in watercolor of the famous Yellowstone "Feather Duster" created by the Eagles. View the full article

"Digital Collage" I created the line drawing for this fly, then I created paths and cut out digital textures and modified the colors. I will continue to experiment with this technique. View the full article

"Linocut 2" Colored up another linocut print. View the full article

"Fly Fishing Merit Badge" I am a merit badge counselor for the fly fishing merit badge. The current badge artwork shows an abstract style salmon fly. I think it should be a dry fly. This is my proposal. Now that I am back from camp and adjusting back to normal life, this will end the Boy Scout series of flies. It was a real challenge due to the busy schedule! View the full article

"Camp Fly" We did not get back from the big final camp wide campfire until late. I just got back into the tent, pulled out mu headlamp and the sketchbook. I recalled an elliptical symbol somewhere in camp. I thought it had a nice shape, so I did this abstract style fly incorporating the symbol. View the full article

"Scout Law" Continuing on the Boy Scout theme, this is the first 2 points of the Scout Law. View the full article

"Scout Motto Fly" The Boy Scout Motto "Be Prepared" adorns this fly. Time is real tight to get sketches done. We are running all day and into the night. making sure our scouts get to their merit badge stations and attending leaders meetings takes it out of you. View the full article

"Drawing Flies Merit Badge" I am pushing to have this merit badge approved by the Boy Scouts of America! View the full article

"Camp Gadget Fly" I was working on my own leaders merit badge at camp. One of the requirements was to make a camp gadget. I came up with this handy paper towel holder. I also drew a fly on one of the sheets. View the full article

"Swiss Army Fly" Waterproof ink and watercolor. The alway versatile knife transformed into a fly. View the full article

" Carved Apple Fly" I took my apple to go from the camp dinning hall and decided to carve a fly into it. View the full article

"Leave No Trace Fly" White gouache on tree bark - I spent the last week at Boy Scout Summer camp with my youngest Son. I am one of the Assistant Scout Masters for his troop. I was going to use my knife to carve the fly into the bark, but that would permanently scar the tree and would be against the "Leave No Trace" policy we try to teach the kids. So instead, I pulled out my white water soluble gouache and painted the fly on the tree. It rained a couple of times during our stay and all traces of the fly are now gone. View the full article

I will be without computer access for the next week. Never fear, I have my sketching and painting supplies all packed up. I will still be creating my daily sketches and I will post them when I return. View the full article

"Ole Red Eye - Again" 8" x 12" Watercolor and ink. Had to try it again in color. View the full article

" Old red Eye" - Revisited" A quick hand skerch with some digital color added. View the full article

" Negative Fly" 14" x 10" Watercolor. Just experimenting with some negative shape painting and different techniques. View the full article

"Cherry of a Dry" Cherry juice on watercolor paper. Around this time every year, our cherry tree provides a beautiful bounty of sour pie cherries. My 7th grade son who could be described as an amateur tree climber, can scurry up and down a tree like no one else I know. Anyway, it is his job to pluck the cherries from the tree. This was a good year for cherries. You have to time it just right so that the cherries are ripe enough but not too ripe that the birds strip the tree before we can harvest the cherries. My son picked as many cherries as he could reach and we proceeded to pit them using corn cob holders. The same son that climbs the trees is also a speed demon at pitting cherries. He can out pit me 3 to 1. We used some of the cherries to make a pie this evening and we froze the remainder for use in future pies during the Summer. The dry fly was painted using cherry juice and a few smashed cherries as a brush. I had to use Marachino cherry juice, because the fresh cherry juice deoes not have enough color to it. View the full article

"Impromptu" 8" x 10" watercolor. I just picked up a brush and started to paint. No planning, no sketches, no value studies. View the full article