Several new drawings

It's been a while since I've posted, so I have a few new things to post. One is of a colored pencil drawing I did of the Borrego Springs Area:

The other two were of my first forays into pen and marker drawings. I decided I wanted a change and do something that is more like illustration rather than fine art. I've seen a lot of nice work done with pen and ink, so I thought I would try it. Of course, it take practice to get good at it just like any other medium. I currently have several Sharpie pens and a set of markers in secondary colors. I may buy more markers if I decide I want to continue with this medium.

Here is my first attempt. It's of Oreo the duck:

This one I did last night. It's of George the killdeer. I also used a little colored pencil on it, too. In this version, I cut out the area around the drawing and put it on a clean white sheet using Photoshop. I had made a lot of smudges and marks on the original sheet of paper.

I have some items up in my Cafepress store with the killdeer design on it. Check it out:

http://www.cafepress.com/luckinsartwork/12256338

A Duck Stole My Heart Series

I've been doing a lot of artwork for Cafepress and one of the things I've been working on is a series called "A Duck Stole My Heart"  I've only done two pieces, so far,  one of a mallard and one of a Pekin.  I just finished the Pekin version.  It's done in colored pencil.

If you would like to visit my Cafepress shop and see what's available in both designs, visit here:

Just Ducky Darlene Ducky Art

Pepper scratch

Here is an acrylic painting of Pepper the duckling having a scratched.  Based on a photo I took a few years back.

Queen Sheba and her friends

Here's another drawing for the children's book, Brave tiny.  The duck was called Oreo in real life, but in the book she's known as Queen Sheba.  The other two ducks, the two on the left, did not get names in the book, but one was named Buffy2 and the other was named Latte or Big Daddy2.  Oreo is the black and white duck.

This is a colored pencil drawing on paper scanned into the computer and color adjusted.  I wanted it to look "sketchy", so it's not as polished as my usual work.

Tommy

This is a colored pencil drawing of Tom the Turkey Duck (Muscovy) who lived at Lake Murray.  I drew this as part of illustrating my book "Brave Tiny" about a killdeer family that lives at Blue Lake, a made-up lake in San Diego.

I haven't decided if I am going to further work on the background or on Tom, himself, yet.

Mom and ducklings finished

Here is the finished product that will be going on T-shirts beginning with mine!

Of course, the t-shirts won't have my signature and date on it.

Mama and her ducklings

I still have to put some finishing touches on this acrylic painting of Fish Food Mama and her five ducklings.  One of the things I have to do is create a white, transparent background so I can put them on Cafepress items.  I also need to do some more detail work on a few of the ducklings.

Little baby duck

I did this little colored pencil drawing on paper of a little baby mallard duckling.

"Fish Food Ducklings"

I've been having a ball watching all the little babies around Lake Murray. I call these ducklings the "fish food ducklings" because, when they first hatched, they were living in an area with a lot of large fish that could eat them. There are three, total, but I think there was four originally. One kept going off on his own and I think that's why he went missing.

Anyway, here's the two girls on the shore of the lake.