Matt's watercolors (1 Viewer)

[solitaryVSong]

Nicely posed, as though he's about ready to walk right off the page.

 

[timwootton]

Fantastic!!!

 

[nickderry]

super spider - great angle on it.

 

[mattybohan]

back to the birds.

Male Baltimore Oriole
7 x 10 in Transparent watercolor
Arches 140lb HP paper
Detail shot is about 3x4 inches.

WIP can be seen here.

 

[colleenc]

dynamic Matty !

 

[timwootton]

Another class piece of work Matty.

 

[mattybohan]

Thanks! They are gorgeous birds. Always fun to get them at the jelly feeder outside the kitchen window.

 

[JTMB]

Great oriole, Matt! I miss seeing these guys since moving out to the west coast years ago...although about four years ago we had one show up in a park not too far from my place. We do have Bullock's Orioles out here, though.

 

[mattybohan]

Thanks John...Bullock's Oriole. I'd like to add that to the life list!

 

[mattybohan]

Winter Ruddy turnstone

 

[Lykos]

wow....great work Matty...and many thanks for the step by step oriole

greetings Gaby

 

[timwootton]

Again - great use of monochrome. Excellent stuff.

 

[JTMB]

Great work on the Turnstone! We only see a few Ruddy's here - mostly Black Turnstones in our area. I need to try to sketch them one of these days.

 

[KathrinJ]

Your pictures are beautiful all the way through! It's a pleasure looking through your gallery. Thank you for so many great paintings/drawings |=)|.

Best wishes,
Kathrin

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

lovely work Matty

 

[mattybohan]

the common grackles are back in Michigan.

 

[timwootton]

These are great, Matt - may I ask; what do you do with these monochromes? - Are they exhibited, do you use them as starting points for carvings, are they personal exercises . . .or all of the above?

 

[mattybohan]

Thanks Tim,

At this point the animal drawings are pretty much for my own enjoyment. Medical illustration work pays the bills. I'll sell the watercolors and prints that I do from the drawings here and there.

Ideally I'll get a chance to do watercolors of many of these drawings at some point. I have a pretty big backlog of these that I'd like to work up at some point. I use bound sketchbooks, so I hate to remove them from the book. All the pencil work that I've posted here is still in the studio.

I'll show things locally in Michigan here and there, but haven't entered any national or international shows in years, although I had some success with getting things into shows in the past. I found that getting into shows didn't always equate to sales. Entry fees, framing, boxing up paintings and shipping costs add up quickly. Other than locally, I don't think I've entered any shows in the past 8 years or so. I was only entering the watercolor work, not any drawings at that point.

 

[colleenc]

Now I totally understand where that precise line comes from, no one draws quite like a medical illustrator.....gackle is gorgeous

 

[Woody]

Now I totally understand where that precise line comes from, no one draws quite like a medical illustrator.....gackle is gorgeous

Spot on Colleen!

My Father-in-law absolutely hates grackles! I thought they were rather endearing in a magpie/crow sort of a way. I didn't actually realise they weren't corvids.

Mike