Revamped website and a sketch of Fairfax hills

I've just revamped my website with larger images so you can better see detail. This may make images load a little slower but I hope it's worth the wait. Let me know if it is cumbersome. There are also several new works on the site. http://www.willnoble.com/

I plan to start showing art from my sketchbook in blog posts. Here's one that I did up above the town of Fairfax, California, in the Marin Watershed.

Completion, acceptance & small works

I recently finished work on the large pencil drawing titled Peggy's Pond, perhaps the most detailed piece I have ever done. The drawing alone took a year. It was just accepted in the Artworks Downtown Drawing show juried by Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray McSweeney of SeagerGray Gallery. The show will be up from May 24 to July 5. Public reception will be June 14, 5 – 8pm. I don't have a photo of this drawing either here on the blog or on my site yet, but I hope you will come to the show to see it!
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Before I get involved in another large project, I am enjoying working in my sketchbook, doing small pencil, ink and watercolor works. Below is one of them, a view from Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore.

With an image size of 9" x 13" I was able to draw and paint it in a number of days, not months. This frees me to transition to other images and experiment with techniques.


Kehoe, a watercolor by Will Noble