*small angry sounds* … a doodle from class… #yorkie

If your gesture sketches aren’t working, try not-looking! 😉 #gesturesketch

Fun to compare different sketch-times: top is >30 seconds and bottom is >1 minute. Limiting time can generate different results!

CCAD Alumni: I learned that Battelle Hall has a basement! In all the years of Halloween parties, classes, etc., I thought it was a slab foundation!

Bloödcheëp shirt preorder! Want a metal-style shirt with a terrifying bald cardinal? Preorder here: topatoco.com/collections/...

Now available: 2025 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference Video Pass. Get 30 classes through 4/30/2026 for just $95–bargain! Learn more at wildwonder.org/25 Our amazing teacher team includes Grant Snyder (image 2), @bellandpixel.bsky.social (image 3) and @finchwing.bsky.social (image 4)!

If you missed my first book, Draw All the Animals: Horses, there is one up for auction. All proceeds support the Wild Wonder Foundation! new.biddingowl.com/item/draw-al...

One swoosh of a second! One of my guests from the Ohio School of Falconry serving up amazing poses! Gesture Sketching is Art School’s Gym Class.

Join me tomorrow (Saturday August 30th) 8am ET for a fabulous Owl Sketch Session! zeetstudio.gumroad.com/l/lsxcga

As seen at work: a feisty cockatiel pin by @kenspinhustle.bsky.social

LOOK—Full Schedule Just Dropped! Join the fun at the seventh Annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, September 10-14, 2025, live online! Learn more, read bios, see the detailed conference schedule, and buy your pass today at wildwonder.org/25

Central Ohio! Today! Sewing Hive, Wild Cat Gift & Party, Sew to Speak, Good Dea Craft School,Dye Mad Yarns,Tuft Itties/Crass, Concepts, Studio 614, 614 Knit Studio, Craft Raccoon, Stained Glass Corner, Makers Social, The Kiln Room, Chartreuse Supply Shop, Bareclay, YarnIt& Haberdashery, Natterdoodle

What’s it like being a Chair of an Academic Department? Sometimes you are doing paperwork, or meeting with students… or you are using duck-tape to fix an ottoman in the gallery…

Watch Out!

The 2nd printing run of Draw All the Animals is available online! (and in person at the Ampersand Emporium!) Thank you to everyone who reached out! 🧡 (working on international shipping!) www.shopccad.org/shop/draw-al...

The Birds of YAY are cheering for you! #slayqueen #bootsthehousedown

Drawing chickens? May I offer you a baguette? #drawingtips

WANTED: Queer digital artists, LGBTQ+ youth for Ohio superheroes project uplifting queer kids. ‘Heroes Within’ conceptualizes kids and young adults’ heroic alter egos in posters and stories. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/07/21/s...

"if you never build those muscles". Same goes for art. You've got to learn the fundamentals, experience life, and draw draw draw. A creative writing teacher writes about AI and the impact on her students. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

A quick sketch tutorial and tips page featuring a miniature horse! Happy sketching!

Be the light you wish to see in the world. #birds #art

It's in the works? I've never wanted a book so badly in these past few years....

Mother Nature.

“Draw All the Animals” sold out! Thank you! If you missed it, I am gathering information for a second printing. If you are interested in buying a copy, please fill out this form: forms.gle/qKGz3B42TnVU...

Happy Philly Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ From the 600-foot pride flag we carried, to the inclusive community, and the Batala Philly drummers #batalaphilly this was one of my favorite Pride March experiences!

Start your day with art… Listen to the full episode: linktr.ee/ChrisOatley

A quick sketch of our foster cockatiel… she throws the best side-eye! #cockatielsketch

Shout out to @rosemarymosco.com, @bellandpixel.bsky.social, and the Ohio School of Falconry (www.ohioschooloffalconry.com) for a wonderful and charming presentation at @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social last Saturday. Thank you for being so kind, informative, entertaining, and accessible to all.

Use your mark-making to visually define the adjectives of your subject! #drawingtips #sketchingtips

It’s warBLUR time! Had a blast at Biggest Week In American Birding! #artsyfartsy

Aaahhhh!! Look at the Yorkie pin! Darling!

Now I'm going to @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social to take in the warblers, teach a comics workshop with @bellandpixel.bsky.social and live falconry birds(!!!), and sign some books. If you're going to Biggest Week, come say hi.

Happy #WorldDonkeyDay to all who celebrate!

Fabulous to see the final composition Lydia! I enjoyed watching your process!

Everyone stop what you are doing and check out these amazing bird pins! Such cheeky characters! Darling designs! Thank you Ken! @kenspinhustle.bsky.social

I took a few Puffin photos on my weekend trip to @flamboroughbird.bsky.social and decided to sketch them all together. I hope you like them! #birds #birdart #sketch #traditionalart

Do you like birds? My new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is out today wherever you buy books! This little book is deeply silly and full of love, and I hope you'll laugh and maybe enjoy an obscure fact or two.

this book is actually making me draw which is scary

Thank you Ken! I think this counts as my first official book review! 😊

A one-minute Atlantic Puffin sketch! Practicing lots of seabirds for the Wild Wonder @wildwonder.bsky.social Hog Island Nature Journaling Retreat!

Join me in preordering The Birding Dictionary! 🦅📙🦃

Draw All the Animals is now available online! Currently shipping to US addresses (international shipping coming soon!) www.shopccad.org/shop/draw-al...

⭐️ Draw All the Animals is officially released! Available in-person at the Ampersand Emporium at Columbus College of Art & Design, M-F 9am - 4pm, 91 Cleveland Ave, Columbus OH 43215, 614-222-3253. On-line ordering coming soon! #DrawAlltheAnimals

Join us in September! 🐝🎨🌱 Early Bird passes are available!

I made a book! It will be available at Columbus College of Art & Design Ampersand Emporium and online next week! Let’s Draw All the Animals! #drawalltheanimals

Quick sketch stage one: rough, silhouetted shape 20-ish seconds. Stage two, all the fun details 90-ish seconds #quicksketch #owlsketch

My publisher and I are excited to offer FLUENT IN BIRDING buttons for folks who preorder The Birding Dictionary. This is open to everybody, whether you've already preordered or plan on preordering. See here to get one: www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page... The Birding Dictionary comes out May 6!

Hello #PortfolioDay 😊 I’m a Professor and Department Chair at Columbus College of Art & Design and I love sketching and drawing animals!

“This is clearly part of a larger effort to erase LGBTQ+ people from any sort of formal recognition by our government.” Trump administration cuts $250k grant to install 10 LGBTQ+ Ohio historical markers ✏️ @bjodway.bsky.social

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