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Museum of Natural History Sketches Round 1

October 10, 2013
by Katherine
AMNH, bison, brown bears, elephant, location drawing, Museum of Natural History, octopus, sperm whale, water buffalo, watercolor, zebra
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One of my all time favorite New York activities is drawing at the American Museum of Natural History. Watercolor, crayons, pencils, gouache, bears, waterbuffalo, frogs, small children; I hardly care what tools I use or what I draw, so long as I get to spend at least two or three hours playing with marks on paper based on whatever is in front of me in the museum. Above all, I try not to worry about making good drawings! A drawing leads to the next drawing whether it works or it doesn’t, and the visual research of drawing in a real space from life all serves the my book projects in my studio.

Here are a few of the drawings in my giant moleskin sketchbook from this summer and September! October pages are underway.

 

ROY_AMNH_brownbears1WEB

ROY_AMNH_elephants1WEB  ROY_AMNH_zebraelephants1WEB

 ROY_AMNH_bison1WEB

ROY_AMNH_oceanlife1WEB
ROY_AMNH_waterbuffalo1WEB
ROY_AMNH_waterbuffalo2WEB 

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  1. jeff fisher October 10, 2013 at 12:33 pm Reply

    Not bad, not bad at all. Keep a collection of these. I think one day they’ll make a good book!

    • admin October 10, 2013 at 1:06 pm Reply

      What can I say. I learned from the best.

  2. Sam Shieh October 14, 2013 at 11:54 pm Reply

    Wow, these are beautiful! I especially love that second to last one. Is that water buffalo?

    • admin October 16, 2013 at 2:01 pm Reply

      Thank you, Sam! Yep, that is an African water buffalo. I love that diorama, it’s one of my favorites in all of the Museum!

  3. Pablo Correa Arrau October 5, 2014 at 3:50 pm Reply

    Katherine, realmente tus dibujos son sorprendentes!!!!!!!!
    La soltura de los trazos y el manejo cromático son increíbles!!!!!
    Hacía mucho tiempo que yo no veía dibujos tan increíblemente logrados!!!!!!
    Espero que tu talento sea debida y oportunamente reconocido en todo el ámbito de las artes y de las comunicaciones y pronto seas difundida en todo el mundo.
    Un fuerte abrazo!!!!!

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