Sketches from live... or dead
It is challenging to sketch animals from life because they don't stay still. Often, however, they came to me as trapped mouse, stuck frog, dead birds that crushed into the windows.
寫生極難，但鼠、蛙、蟬、蝶、撞窗死鳥等，常如天降神兵，予我仔細觀察的機會。
Pencil drawing, 13" x 9 1/2", 2003.
Pencil sketch, 9 1/4" x 13", 2003.
Pencil sketch, 9 1/2" x 13", 2004.
Pencil drawing live in New England Aquarium, 19' x 24", 2002.
Pencil drawing live in New England Aquarium with background added later, 19"x 24", 2001.
Pencil drawing, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2", 2000.
Pencil drawing, 18" x 24", 1999.
Colored pencils, 13" x 9 1/2", 1999.
Colored pencils, 13" x 9 1/2", 1990s.
Colored pencils, 13" x 9 1/2", 1999.
Pastel pencils sketch, 8 1/2" x 11", 1998.
Colored pencils, 9 1/2" x 13", 1996.
Watercolor, 13 1/4" x 9 1/2", 2002.
Parakeets relax in strange manner such as the one on top--hanging upside down! Colored pencils, 13 1/4" x 9 1/2", 2001.
Colored pencils, 13 1/4" x 9 1/2", 2001.
Colored pencils, 8 12"x 11", 2006.
Colored pencils, 8 12"x 11", 2006.
Pencil sketch, 14" x 17", 1997.
Colored pencils, 9 1/2" x 13", 2005.
Pencil drawing, 18" x 24", 1999.
Colored pencils, 8 1/4" x 11", 2000.
Chinese brush painting, ink and color on rice paper, 8/1/4" x 13", 2000.
Watercolor sketch from live in a Farmer's garden in Acton, Massachusetts, 18" x 24", 1999.
Watercolor sketch, 18" x 24", 1999.