Falls of the Ohio Pen and Ink Detail

 This is another closeup of a pen and ink drawing. This section is about 4 x 4 inches. I really like the closeups because I like seeing the pen strokes and the patterns in the lines. That border between the representation of the scene, and the abstraction of the marks on paper, is what I find most exciting about any art medium.

Landscape in oil, 16 x 20 inches

This was a commissioned work on panel.  I added a little more glazing after this photo was taken; I'll take more photos later, even though the difference is so small most people wouldn't notice.

Commissioned oil landscape work-in-progress

Getting near the end...just need to let it dry a few days so I can work over some corrections, refinements, etc.

Thanksgiving Saturday

...at Grandpa Len's

found in change at work

still some old pennies rolling around, I guess.

TIE

just messing with X-Wing Miniatures models and my phone's aps.

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin sculpting

pumpkin sculpting with my daughters

Art Pumpkins: American Gothic

 Here is my second American Gothic pumpkin for the Jack-o'-Lantern Spectacular. The first one, drawn by another artist, had its face (or more specifically, the farmer's face) eaten by a squirrel. I created a replacement, but it was eaten by a deer. Here is yet another. I haven't seen it lit up.

It's a little hard to see in the photo, but this time, I gave the farmer a widow's peak and fangs.

Those are the phases of the moon framing the image.

Clinton and Trump Pumpkins

Here are two pumpkins, both drawn by Edward Cabral, and carved by me (because they needed to go out for the show but Edward wasn't around).  Edward did a great job, and I hope my carving skills did them justice.  In my humble opinion, the eyes on both really sing.

artists: Edward Cabral and Mark Tabler

artists: Edward Cabral and Mark Tabler

White House Pumpkin

White House Pumpkin. Artist: Mark Tabler

 Drawn and carved for the Jack-o'-Lantern Spectacular at Iroquois Park

Wyoming Pumpkin: unlit vs. lit

Wyoming pumpkin

Drawn and carved for the Jack-o'-Lantern Spectacular at Iroquois Park. This is, at least so far, my favorite one I've done this year.

polymer clay

My daughters wanted to get out the polymer clay last weekend, and I joined them. I really like making stuff...but it is also sorta useless. I don't care to make jewelry and don't need game pieces or light cord pulls. So these things are just sitting around on my desk looking neat.

It did occur to me today that I could make a crokinole game with it. Hmm. Maybe someday.

Natural Bridge

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Natural Bridge salamander

Salamander

sinkhole

Yesterday, at Natural Bridge State Park

Trump pumpkin

I made this smug mug with alcohol ink and acrylic paint.

Wyoming Pumpkin drawn but uncut

Wyoming pumpkins - Jack-o'-Lantern Spectacular

Here is the first pumpkin I drew for this year. The cowboy is based off a Charlie Russell painting (I did a report on him my junior year in high school and have had a fondness for his artwork ever since.)

I took the photo from two angles to try to work around the awful glare.