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Feel free to post up any artwork you may have... always fun to check out wildlife art!

I like the reasonable size realistic rack. Great job man.

Hopefully, some othe folks will share some of their artwork.

There's an artist in western Montana, where we used to live, who's artwork is unreal. You can see every hair... his name is something like Gammond or Garrand... I wish I could remember it, right now. Old timer's dz...

My wife is a hell of a drawer but she needs a picture to go off of. She has a hard time coming up with it from thin air. Her dad is a superb artist that can draw anything.

That memory issue your having is called mad cow. lol

Tim...where in WY do you live? Pen and ink? I just finished framing an old lithograph that had an elk with similar expression.

My daughter Carrie Wild lives in Jackson Hole and her work is on display there (Mountain Trails) and in galleries in a number of states. As a high school student, her first national exposure was illustrating a hunting story by Brian Cole in Traditional Bowhunter magazine.

As a proud parent, it has been fascinating to see how she has developed as an artist. Her early work was very detailed tending to photo realism. Her love of color has grown as has her experimental techniques. Still, she always tells me, "Daddy, don't worry--all my animals are conformationally correct1"

Rebuilding after our house fire, my wife has turned it into a true art gallery with prints, lithos, chromos and paintings from American artists mostly from the early 1900's to present. One of these days, perhaps, I will post a video tour of the gallery.

Having a wife who collects and a daughter as an artist makes me appreciate those who can...I have trouble drawing straight lines with a ruler.

On my best day I am lucky to draw a straight line with a ruler!

There have been a few artwork threads here over the years where people have posted their stuff and favorite works of others. I really enjoy them.

I do a graphite drawing with as much detail as I can and then add color with pastel chalk using brushes.

I have normal tension glaucoma and my sight is fading fast. Been fighting it with eyedrops and surgeries since 1995.

I use my progressive eyeglases, clip-on 5x magnifiers and a sunlight lamp with a 5 inck magnifying mirror. It sucks. You should see me tie on a #20 midge to a 6x tippet... takes me 30 minutes. Like I tell my daughters... ya gotta be tough! :)

Be thankful for what you have and can do.

Widowshooter...you're wife has an amazing talent!

You might remember me posting this Monochromatic piece awhile back. Actual size was 2.5' by 3.5' without the frame and was sold that way.

I have seen some incredible talent displayed here on Bowsite from others that leaves me with the feeling of amazement.

All others are just pictures of pieces undone or sketches I've done during break time at work.

My portfolio was 'lost' and didn't have back-ups. A lot of what I have done are murals in private homes and businesses.

Thanks for sharing,

Good luck, Robb

Here's a muley I did today. I hope to do a speedgoat tomorrow to go with the elk and deer...

how old is your boy?......just had to ask.....not that it matters

I think that'd look cool on a kid's T-shirt. Heck, I'd even wear a shirt or hat emblazoned with that. You could have a real future in pictographs.

This was used by Wagner Custom Skis last year on one of their series of skis.

Recommendation for aspiring artists: good digital camera with long lens and lots of pictures. You need them for reference to make sure you get anatomy correct. Wonderful having an artist for a daughter as I get lessons as to what to look for in art. Incorrect proportions/poses are the number one fault I have seen when looking at student/amateur art.

Love seeing what others can do, especially when being limited to crayon doodles that few recognize as to what they are ;o)

It's fun studying all the artwork... especially that "primitive" elk figure. I bet that would be my 8 year old daughter's pick of the bunch!

Hey, I never said I was smahrt, just good lookin'! :)

Keep them coming.

This color drawing above is a rendition of monet's "Water Lily Pond" tweaked and scaled back a bit. Did this just to see how much color I could infuse using only color pencils.

Tim, the antlers turned out great. I hope I'm not turning your thread in a direction you did not intend by posting this. But all I have left are of scenery and sketches on hand.

Our post fire home has become an art gallery.Cherie lost maybe $25K of her collection in the fire. Much of what she had collected came off of eBay at very low prices. Think the economy is such that people are now investing in art because the prices are much higher for what she collects. Still, we are at the point where we can switch out pieces like a real museum.

How many people have art in their bathrooms? LOL

LeeBuzz: that was done in acrylics. Carrie is becoming really creative with her art, using transparent paints,layering and gold foil. She did a lot of really nice detail work when in high school using pencils, often on black paper. Every feather and hair was detailed.

Tim...that is simply awesome. What size is it? You interested in selling or making some sort of trade. I'd love to surprise my wife with an addition to the hunting/fishing wing of the museum. ;o)

I have lost most of the sight in my right eye and my left is going fast. I draw/color/print all my stuff at 8 1/2 x 11... I mat and frame them in 12 x 14 frames.

Some are hanging at 11 x 17 in my wife's previous employer's offices and the Whitewater Restaurant in Missoula. They look good enlarged to that scale.

I have several I've done over the past 10 years, or so. I became a stay at home dad when my first daughter was born in 2003... I started drawing to fill the time during naptime etc..

I get a kick out of it when folks enjoy my artwork! :)

This is a sketch to represent a painting with a wire frame I was commissioned to do.

The frame was a PITA! Spot welded thin wall wrought iron with acidic patina and then sealed. Weighed about 30 pounds.

Turned out really nice though.

Jack

You ever been to the National Wildlife Art Museum there?

I started a speedgoat yesterday but it kicked my butt... back to the drawing board. :)

Carrie just posted this on FB tonight...

Here's another one... I just finished today.

Rocky Mountain Bluebird...

You're right, they are way more common to the east. I've actually seen the ruby throated hummers in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado... we had one on our deck last summer a couple times.

The broad-tails are way more common, no doubt! My cousin had a ranch on Spraddle Creek in Vail where they took folks out on horseback trail rides. They had 2 liter soda bottles hung all around the tack shed and office for feeders. They had to fill them every couple days. Hummers were everywhere! :)

It's a drawing, son. Let it go.

Tim, I sent a PM.

"The adult male, with his bright red metallic gorget, gives the species its name, although other hummers in the central and western U.S. also have red throats and sometimes are INCORRECTLY referred to as "ruby-throats."."

Looks like I was wrong... again. :)

Now I have to draw a broad-tail and change my drawing. :)

I'm sorry for the mistake!

Brookie is nice, too (WRT my PM).

Enjoy your work much.

jack

Holding them in hand and seeing them in the "real world", I can say that the computer screen does not do Tim's work justice. Simply awesome.

Thanks, Tim...perfect Mother's Day gift.

I'm going to try and take some shots of our art gallery. In my little office, I have almost 30 pieces of art hanging on my walls...and am running out of space. This has been one of the most enjoyable threads. From my perspective, living with so much art and having such a talented daughter, one really comes to appreciate those with talent and vision.

Again...Tim: simply awesome.

jack

Your daughter is very gifted and it's clear you have instilled a true love of nature in her. Beautiful!

Thank you again,

Tim

Wanted to say that I purchased two of Tim's artworks for my wife, who loved them. They are in line to get framed and up with our art collection. Must comment that Tim's work is better in hand than on the screen ;o)

Thanks, Tim...and the inclusion of the note cards was really nice. In a quandary with them, though. I have a set of cards from Carrie's early work, a set from Edsel Duty and now Tim's. Need to figure out a way to properly display these collections. LOL

Lastly, Carrie was featured in an article (link)in the latest issue of Western Art and Architecture. Pretty neat when your offspring find success at what they want to do with their lives.

Again, thanks Tim.

jack

There is a nice auction starting this weekend with a lot of nice wildlife art: Pearl Art Auction. My wife tells me it is a prestigious auction with some of the top contemporary artists participating. Check it out...Rip Caswell, Julie Chapman and Carrie are among the artists whose work is up for auction.

Carrie has a piece Flat Creek Trumpeters that when I saw it, begged her to give me the daddy-discount.

I brought this thread up for another reason. Anyone have experience with art appraisals/insurance coverage? My wife is in the process of trying to get coverage on her collection, having learned a lesson from our house fire three years back. No appraisers in our area that we have been able to locate and our insurance company has said that self-appraisal a no-go.

With all of the CF collective knowledge/experience, figured this would be a good time/place to ask.

Thanks

jack