BIRDS!

Winking Wile E.

A NEW PAINTING! 

Fur has been kinda my own personal challenge and, with all the practice I got on this coyote, I think I'm getting better at it!!! Praise God! I have entered this one for the NRA youth art competition. Praying it all goes well!

Columbine Encounter

Here is a new painting I finished yesterday. This Mountain Columbine is acrylic on an 8x10 canvas.

By the way, if you want to buy this painting, it is for sale at  http://www.artpal.com/gustavsgallery

Blurred Flight

This is my first try at doing a sort of "in motion" painting. It's really loose and impressionistic compared to what I'm used to doing, but I like it a lot!

Last Chance

Here's another acrylic painting I recently completed. It is on a 18 x 24 canvas. It was really difficult, but fun, to add all the tiny details into the rocks. This is sort of what it looks like where I like to hunt :)

UPDATE!!!

I have made a new blog for all of my "fun" art (that includes drawings, digital paintings, doodles and what-not) and made this one my more professional blog for my paintings and such. The new blog is at andrewalot.blogspot.com

God Bless!!!

Echoing Bugles

This is another acrylic painting I did for the NRA Art Competition. Even though I didn't win anything, it was a lot of fun :)

Swan and Cygnets

This is a painting I did for the Junior Duck Stamp Competition. I actually won for the state of Wyoming and the piece is going on to the national competition. I'm so excited and praying that the Lord's will is done!!!
I'll update this post if I win national or anything :)

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EPIC UPDATE:
I won second place in the National Competition!!!!!!!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!

(huge smiley face goes here)

Some Digital Art

VANELLOPE!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so far my most successful digital rendering of skin color. It was sooo fun :)

Sometimes I get spontaneous and random inspiration....this was a time like that. A little...2D and impressionistic. But it was still way fun.

 I did this one quite a while back...in 2012...kinda weird....its supposed to be a dramatic lighting picture of an explorer in cave. Its a little hard to get at first, but it will make sense after while...maybe. 

 EXTREME ARTIST!...haha

Don't you ever just feel so sorry for penguins? They cant fly!!!! (well, i cant either...oh well) ... I was feeling very sympathetic, so I drew this. I did it in about 60 seconds....

Digital drawing is not really my strong suit...but I still have a ton of fun every time I try.
 That's what art is, right? ... fun!

An Owl Drawing

This is a owl drawing I recently finished. I used a black and metallic Sharpie, some STAEDTLER pens, and a few good old fashioned graphite pencils. Super fun to draw! Would love to try drawing more owls like this in the future! 

P.S....I dare you to have a staring competition with him. If you win please let me know:)

A Symphony of Doodles

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I started drawing and decided not to stop.......for a long time.......

Cougar Cub

This is my newest acrylic painting. It was quite a challenge and somewhat frustrating at times (painting fur often times is very difficult) but I think the outcome was worth it

:)

Midnight Run

This is a quick acrylic painting I just finished. Really fun! Kinda different style from what I normally do in acrylic. Sort of an illustrated look. It took me about an hour and a half. '-'

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Progress

       This post is in commemoration to the many, many....many pictures I have drawn from the ages of 0 though now (16). Today, I decided to count the drawings I have archived over the years and it amounted to about 617...(yes I counted them all). It is amazing for me to think of what progress has been made in my work and I wanted to share a few of my older pieces with you all for no particular reason other than for the sake of a few giggles and some fun memories...

This is an early work I drew of my younger brother. Hehe! I scrawled this onto a pad of note paper at the age of 3...adorable right? My keen sense of style and beauty was developed at a very young age!

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When I got to the age of 5, I was addicted to the white board. This is a picture of me and another drawing I completed. That horse badly needs some arthritis medicine. And a face transplant.

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Later on in my adventurous 7th year of life...I drew this work horse.

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Life went on. And so did my artwork. I could not stay 7 forever...so I grew up (a bit). This drawing of a mountain lion chasing a horse was done at the ripe old age of 12. (yes it is okay to laugh)

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PROGRESS!!!! PERSPECTIVE!!! FINALLY!...maybe...a little. I dunno. This drawing of a cowboy was done when I was 13. 

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YESYESYES!!!! I love this one. This fantasy-ish pen drawing somehow appeared on the paper I was scribbling on at the age of 14....

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And this leads to the very first acrylic painting I completed when I was 14 under the patient guidance of my art teacher, Bonnie.

The Lord has been so good to me in providing art lessons and advice at just the right times. My art is a journey and it continues to be. I hope my artwork gets even ten times better than it is now in the next sixteen years:)

-Me-

Returning

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 This is another acrylic painting I just completed. It is of a Harris Hawk...they are amazing birds. One of my favorites now...it took me about 8 hours total to finish.

This picture is of me in my zone...working hard :)