Midsummer Twilight

Painting practice done at the National Gallery of Art. Done in Painter. approx. 2 hours.

More Painting Practice

Painting practice using National Geographic issues as inspiration. Isn't Nat Geo awesome?

More Zoo Sketches

Some birds:

Some ungulates:

Some invertebrates:

Komodo Dragon:

Ocelot

An ocelot.

Blue-Footed Booby

Quick paint to test out Painter 11 on my new Macbook pro (!).

Muybridge sketches

More sketches from the Muybridge annals.

Web series? TV? How do I get this story out there? (a history)

Thanks again for everyone who watched "Kanook" and gave comments. If you haven't seen it, seen the previous post.

I wanted to get out some of my thoughts, ideas, plottings ... so you can tell me if I'm crazy or not ... (warning: long!)

Kanook – Episode One (Draft)

I'm working on a series called Kanook.

This is a draft. I welcome feedback and collaborators.

-Heather

Understanding Evolution – Flash Simulation

CLICK HERE TO TRY THE FLASH SIMULATION

Intro: I started working on this simulation a few days ago and I'm pretty excited about it. I'm looking for feedback so if you have anything to say about it, please share!

Goal: I think that evolution and natural selection are simple yet powerful concepts that are often misunderstood. The idea for the project is to make a clear and engaging simulation that shows the principles of natural selection in action.

For now, I just want to get this thing out on the web for feedback, so I'm not going to go into a big explanation about it. Here's the basics:

“I could buy a LIGHTBOX!”

For the longest time I've been trying to come up with a process of creating well-rendered art that maintains the spontaneity and liveliness of my sketches (I'm still working on it). One morning, I was really grinding away, thinking about how I could do this, when I had the idea of buying a lightbox, an item I hadn't used since my high school art class. In my sleepy head I was thinking ... "That's it ... I know ... I'll buy a LIGHTBOX!" And immediately I started plotting how I would go to Utrecht and buy it, and plan my whole day around this important event. When I woke up I told my boyfriend about it. It seems really silly now to be so excited about a lightbox, but at the time, my boyfriend said I had the "crazy eyes."