Takhlakh Lake in Shadow of Mount Adams

Takhlakh Lake in Shadow of Mount Adams

By: Russell Taylor

November 20, 2017

Prismacolor Colored Pencil

Taken from Photograph of Mt. Adams at Takhlakh Lake, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, by Shawn Taylor August 2007

This is my most recent project. It is part of my Cascade volcanoes project. So far I have drawn Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams. Next, I will draw Mount Rainier. I will finish with Mount Baker. I am really pleased with how this drawing turned out. I free handed this drawing from a photograph taken by my brother Shawn in 2007.

Olympic Mountains

Olympic Mountains

Oil Pastel, Colored Pencil, Chalk Pastel

2003-2004

This project came from a drawing class I took my Sophomore year of high school. The middle section was based off a postcard of the Olympic mountains in Washington. We then had to make a border by repeating an element of the middle section in a different medium. The next border repeats a different element in another medium. The middle is in oil pastel, the first border is prismacolor colored pencil, and the second border is chalk pastel.

Coliseum

Coliseum

Oil Pastel

2003 – 2004?

For this project we had to make a social commentary piece. I thought of the subject of religion. I also thought of people who have given their lives for a cause. Perhaps because I like history and I am a Christian I thought of the Christian martyrs from ancient Roman times. I decided to draw the Coliseum. I looked at a picture I got from the Internet to draw the Coliseum and the rest I free handed.

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

2000-2002?

 Graphite

I am a big baseball fan and I have been since I was about 12 years old. Because of this I decided to draw Jackie Robinson in one of my junior high art classes. I remember I was really disappointed about this drawing because I really liked how everything turned out, but was unable to pull off drawing the face. Everything else turned out well, but the face did not and that detracts from the work.

Falling Rain

Falling Rain

Acrylic

2004 – 2005

This painting came from my painting class from my senior year of high school. We had to create an abstract piece with a lot of contrast. The idea was to make the painting look 3-D when using those 3-D glasses with the red and blue plastic lenses. That didn’t really work, but it still made an interesting project.

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Volcano

Volcano

Oil Pastel

 2002

This project came from a ninth grade drawing class. We needed to make a drawing that was split down the middle with a similar, but contrasting theme on each side. I decided to draw a glacial mountain on one side, and a volcano on the other. Oil pastel is not my favorite medium, because it is quite messy. You can get some neat effects from using it though. The drawing came from my imagination.

Night and Day

Night and Day

Watercolor

 2005

I did this watercolor painting for my Senior high school painting class. For the project we had to paint the same scene how it would appear at night and at day. The next step was to cut each painting into strips. Then you had to glue the strips next to each other to form a painting that alternated from night to day. The scene came from my imagination.