Friday, August 15, 2025

Color and Landscape: update


"Color and Landscape"
Dec. 2024, 67 pages, paperback, $18.00
buy your copy

From the introduction:
"The images in this book exist at the meeting of drawing and painting. Both are entwined in the depiction of natural objects and natural phenomena in space."

Here are a few works from this summer that continue the theme of Color & Landscape:

05-17-25-south_salem01
pastel, crayon


07-11-25-heron
charcoal, pastel

08-03-25-deer
crayon, ink

08-07-25-swans-geese
crayon, ink

08-08-25-heron
oil pastel, ink

08-09-25-island
oil pastel, ink



Monday, July 14, 2025

The Island

When birds are scarce, I draw the island instead. Sometimes,  an animal wanders into the picture. But mostly it's just an intriguing composition with lots of texture!

06-17-16-island

07-14-25-island

07-08-25-island

05-25-24-island

03-28-24-island02

08-16-23-island

12-27-22-island

05-31-19-island






Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The New Hawk

Overlooking the sidewalk on the way to the dam, a hawk has set up housekeeping in a pine tree. I've seen it repeatedly since early June.


06-17-25-hawk02

06-17-25-hawk01
 
06-21-25-hawk01

06-14-25-hawk03

06-14-25-hawk01

06-14-25-hawk02


Friday, March 21, 2025

Silhouettes

02-27-25-sparrow
 
03-20-25-grackle

03-16-25-crow

03-15-25-muskrat

03-07-25-crows02

03-18-25-crow02








Friday, March 7, 2025

Yellow Paper

01-06-25-bridge

03-06-25-crow

03-06-25-sparrow


02-24-25-island

02-12-25-willow01

01-18-25-mergansers01

12-07-24-ducks01

10-17-24-pickerelweed

09-26-24-swan01







Friday, February 28, 2025

Blue Shadows

 Spring is coming and the ice is retreating (for the moment at least). In the early morning, the trees cast blue shadows on the white snow and ice.

02-26-25-dam02
ink, pencil, pastel

02-28-25-puddle
ink, oil pastel on yellow paper

02-14-25-mallows
charcoal, pastel

01-24-24-island
pastel, ink

02-24-21-geese
pencil





Tuesday, January 14, 2025

New book: "Color & Landscape"

 My new book is titled Color & Landscape. It's filled with beautiful colored drawings/paintings and my thoughts about what those categories even mean.

It's 67 full color pages, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4", paperback, $18.00 w/o shipping.

book: Color & Landscape by Rob Dunlavey

from the Introduction:
"Drawing or Painting? Who cares? If I draw on canvas, is it a painting? If I paint on paper is it a drawing? Which has more to say? Which has more to tell us? Whatever your opinion, truth is, the artist only wants to steal some of your precious time (you will be rewarded) and could care less about these categories."