Lighthouse in the San Juan Islands

Lighthouse in the San Juan Islands

Acrylic Paint

2005

I painted this picture when I was a Senior in high school. I gave it as a gift to my physical therapist who helped me with swimming therapy. She worked for the school district. When I was in high school I had more use of my hands and so I was able to paint.

Desk Still Life

Desk Still Life

Graphite

Spring 2006

I drew this for a project in the art class I took in the spring semester of my freshman year in college.

Wildflowers with Mount Saint Helens Beyond

Wildflowers with Mount Saint Helens Beyond

By: Russell Taylor

April 2017

Prismacolor Colored Pencil

Taken from Photograph “Mount St. Helens and Paintbrush," Copyright Don Geyer, www.mountainscenes.com

This is my latest drawing. I just finished it this month. It is part of a project that I had planned to draw all the main Cascade volcanoes in Washington. The next one I plan to draw is Mount Adams from one of the photographs that my brother took on a camping trip he took with my Dad. I free handed this drawing of Mount Saint Helens from a photograph by Don Geyer which I found on the Internet on his website. I ordered some sets of greeting cards of Mount Saint Helens and Mount Baker from this website. You can also order prints from his website. I recommend his website to anyone who likes landscape and nature photography. It is pretty cool. The web address is 

www.mountainscenes.com I really like how the sky turned out on this drawing.

Greater Kudu

Greater Kudu

Spring 2006

Ink

Taken from Wildlife of Africa

By Gerald Hoberman

The Gerald and Mark Hoberman Collection

Cape Town

1998

I did this drawing for the college art class I took in 2006. I used a pen and the technique of pointillism. I also used a grid to draw it. It came from a book on African wildlife that my uncle gave me. He lives in South Africa.

A Summer in the Park

A Summer in the Park

By: Russell Taylor

 Winter 2015

Colored Pencil

I free handed this drawing. I started out by just sketching a tree for fun. I then added some more trees and finally decided to turn it into a drawing of a park. The hardest part was drawing all of the leaves. I think the sky with the clouds also turned out well.