Photo
Today's photo:
55 mm manual focus with a macro extender tube, f/8 ISO 400.
art
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
A chital, drawn with a Pigma Micron 03.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Another sketch with the grilling charcoal. Goodwin loves to play with egg cartons lately. Not really sure why, but Hot Wheels cars are just about the size of the eggs.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
OK, so I was outside working in the yard, and then I started smoking some meat. You know, pretty much the classic Sunday afternoon in May. So I'm building the fire, and got charcoal all over the work gloves. And I sat down with my sketchbook, and thought, well, I'll draw one of the gloves -- that's a good subject.
I was pretty far into it, too, when I realized, what better way to draw a charcoal-smudged glove, than with charcoal? So this is what you get when you pick up a chunk of charcoal from the grill and start drawing.
That's hardwood charcoal, not that junky sawdust-and-clay stuff that Henry Ford invented. I don't imagine briquettes would be nearly as good for drawing.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
I've been experimenting with some painting, so I haven't had a lot to show from my sketching lately. I started this one before the AAPA meetings, but didn't pick it up again until later. HB and 4B pencil.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
An Agta woman in the Philippines, according to Flickr.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
The kids had a friend over this morning, so we had a little crayon session. Here are the remains of Gretchen's coffee cake. I haven't really tried to work with crayons forever -- it's easy to forget how hard they are to control.
I generally save really poor-quality jpegs for the blog. With the pencil or ink drawings it doesn't make much difference, and I don't mind if they're a little ugly -- I'm paying for the bandwidth, after all. But the crayon scan really loses vibrancy in the jpeg, and I haven't figured out a way to compress it without losing that brightness.
OK, what am I complaining about? It's crayon!
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
A girl from Yemen, via Flickr.
4B on Strathmore paper
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
A Hellenistic sculpture, titled "The Wounded Gaul". It's at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Can you believe that Bela Lugosi was the original Apeman? Not Tarzan the "ape man", but Apeman. Although with the beard they gave him, I couldn't stop thinking he was the Goat-man. I'm not sure what's in the syringe, there, but I'm sure it's not good.
Pages
Neandertals
For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.
Denisova
From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.
Acceleration
The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.
Malapa
Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.