Nebraska Wildlife Rehab

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab

 

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc. is a non-profit organization of professional wildlife rehabilitators working under permits from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Every sale helps!

10% of all sales of my general wildlife artwork
will be donated to helping Nebraska’s Wildlife.

Wildlife Artwork: Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Inc.

Raptor Artwork: Raptor Conservation Alliance.

 

50% of all sales of my Raptors of the Refuge series

will be donated to:   Fontenelle Forest

Please visit their sites and donate if you can.

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Raptor Conservation Alliance

Raptor Conservation Alliance

Raptor Conservation Alliance is licensed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to handle raptors, and have a 45-year history under Raptor Recovery Nebraska.

A pic of me at my drawing table.

Since childhood I've had a passion for nature, wildlife and creating art.
Here you can see my passions collide!

My Galleries

Wildlife Portfolio

Raptors of the Refuge

A Few Samples of My Mediums

Graphite

Graphite Drawing "Incoming"

Graphite Drawing "Incoming"

Graphite Drawing "Incoming"

Colored Pencil

Colored Pencil "Mandarin Duck"

Colored Pencil "Mandarin Duck"

Colored Pencil "Mandarin Duck"

Charcoal

Charcoal Drawing "Star Gazing"

Charcoal Drawing "Star Gazing"

Charcoal Drawing "Star Gazing"

Watercolor

Watercolor Painting "Rusty"

Watercolor Painting "Rusty"

Watercolor Painting "Rusty"

Ink

Ink Drawing "Looking Back"

Ink Drawing "Looking Back"

Ink Drawing "Looking Back"

Pastel

Pastel "Queen of the Ocean"

Pastel "Queen of the Ocean"

Pastel "Queen of the Ocean"

Inktense

Inktense Painting "Silent Assassin"

Inktense Painting "Silent Assassin"

Inktense Painting "Silent Assassin"

Acrylic

Acrylic Painting: "Chinook"

Acrylic Painting: "Chinook"

Acrylic Painting: "Chinook"

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A Little Inspiration

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas
“Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
“Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do.” – Bob Ross.
“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse
“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso
“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” – Bob Ross

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7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

-Job 12:7-10 New International Version Bible

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Scribbles

Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils

Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils

by | Nov 13, 2021 | ,

Jacob inspecting the arrival of my Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils."Mandarin Duck" Derwent Lightfast Colored PencilsAfter finally getting my hands on the 72 set of Derwent Lightfast colored pencils I set out on a search for the most colorful critter I could draw.  I...

Realism and Colors

Realism and Colors

by | Aug 29, 2020 |

Do you need to know the exact color in order to make your work more realistic?How many times have you thought to yourself, "if only I had the right color" while working on a piece of art? Many new artists think that having the exact right color in the exact spot will...