Pikes Peak Stipple Drawing

This drawing of Pikes Peak was done using the stippling technique: 347,452 individual dots. Yes, I counted them all. :-) This is the same mountain that I see every morning on my drive to work.

Mistletoe Makeup

The other day I wrote the "rest of the story" about the mistletoe (see below). To make up for that bit of fun I am re-posting a drawing I did about a year ago of mistletoe. I like the effect I achieved with this drawing. I used lines to outline the object - the rest of the shading was done using only dots from my pen. I used a uniball signo rt get 0.37 pen.

Alsacian House

I kinda like the way a sketch looks before shading it.

Below is the same picture after the shading is applied. I used stippling again to make the gradations. I really liked how the sun was hitting this house at just the right angle showing all of the various lines cast by the roof line and shudders.

Naturally, I love these old houses. This is a house in a village in the Alsace wine region of France, not far from where we live. Beautiful part of the world. This was drawn in my moleskine plain paper book. Original size: 5x3.5 inches.

Swiss Alps

This drawing is from a photo that I took while in Switzerland. I did something unusual with this drawing that I have never done before. I used a technique known as "Stipling" or "Pointillism", which means the drawing is done using nothing but dots. Yes, it's true. Check it out, click on the picture to see an enlargement. I really like the smooth effect you can achieve with dots.

This is a very famous line of mountains whose names are the Eiger (the Ogre), the Moench (the Monk), and the Jungfrau (the Young Woman)- together they are known as the "Top of Europe". Our God is a great God.

A little holiday sketching

I was looking for something to sketch recently. Both of the following items were found right outside our door.

These were drawn in my moleskine sketch book. I used my uni-ball signo RT gel 0.38. Both sketchbook and pen are a pleasure to use. Thanks Jim for recommending the 0.38 to me.
If you click on the picture you will see that I primarily used "pointillism" for defining the leaves. That means a million little dots were used in making this drawing. (No dots were injured, abused, or hurt in the making of this sketch.)

Hmmm. What's this?

This is a recent doodle. This is NOT my usual style at all. It all started with one curly line (the one at the 1:00 position). That curly line lead to another, that lead to another, that lead...you get the idea. When this was sketch was finally "done" I was very surprised at myself. My doodling is usually very square, blocky, and rigid - this one was nothing like that. Very interesting!!


I admit I started this little sketch during church on second advent Sunday. When I look at this little sketch I think maybe this is communicating something about "coming" - the coming of the promised Messiah, Jesus, exploding into our world bringing power, redemption, and salvation.