In the studio with artist, photographer and instructor Robert Louis Caldwell

Happy Holidays! I would like to wish everyone the very best this holiday season! "Chickadee in a Bradford Pear Tree (Black-capped Chickadee) " Graphite pencil on 300# Arches watercolor paper, 5 x 9 Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year! * * * Watch the drawing come to life in the time-lapse video!   

2012 Holiday drawing coming out tomorrow, 12/19/2012! I had to take a break from my Africa sketchbook/journal excerpts to get caught up in the studio with a few holiday commissions and of course my 2012 Holiday Drawing which I just finished. Once again it is a small song bird perched on something that reminds me of the holidays. I broke away from the Snowman theme this year and went with something different. I plan on sending out my 2012 Studio Holiday Greetings email tomorrow morning, I hope you enjoy it. Until then I thought it would be nice to look back at the previous years holiday drawings.  2011 Holiday Drawing "Buttons (Carolina Wren) " Graphite pencil on watercolor paper 5 x 8  2010 Holiday Drawing   "Snow woman (Cardinal) " Graphite pencil on watercolor paper 6 x 8  2009 Holiday Drawing   "Bulbs (House Finch) " Graphite pencil on watercol...

What, where and when... RL Caldwell Studio Newsletter Fall 2012 My studio newsletter went out this morning to inboxes everywhere and in cased you haven't signed up for my studio newsletter yet, then you can see it by clicking on the link below. This issue covers my exhibition in Dallas and my travels to Africa as well as the up coming events this winter and spring. I hope you enjoy it! RL Caldwell Studio Fall 2012 Newsletter      

My adventure in Africa 2012 Excerpts from my field sketchbook/journal     Day 4 (Day 3 in Tarangire) "5:16am -- Heard a Lion roar last night around 2:30am --- NOT too far from my tent?" Day four started off very early although I don't think I ever fell completely back to sleep after being awoken at 2:30 in the morning of  a loud running sound accompanied with very dramatic rustling and ending with the roar of what I believed to be a lion.  A fast field sketch of a Crowned Lapwing (Plover). Drawn in Africa, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa We explored the west side of the Silale swamp in the morning looking for Leapoards, Lions and Cheetahs, sadly we did not see any but saw plenty of other wildlife. We stopped mid morning at the Silale Pinic area for a pinic breakfast which was great but the landscape was just incredible. After breakfast we did another slow game drive back to Kikoti camp where we had lunch, some much needed down time...

My adventure in Africa 2012 Excerpts from my field sketchbook/journal The amazing sky and open Silale Swamp Day3 "6:02 am -- I am trying to find the words to describe what I have awoken too... I should have known that it was morning even before I opened my eyes because of all the birds singing. There was a slight haze that is burning off very fast and from the porch of my tent I can see out across the African Savannah  The sun is just starting to come up & hit the under belly of the clouds --- Beautiful! Two Go-Away-Birds just flew by..." "I haven't even been here a day and I am already realizing how much I am going to miss this." That is from the entry of my first morning waking up in the bush, arriving late the night prior I had no idea what the camp or surrounding area looked like and was happily surprised to find myself in this  Eden . Field sketch of a male Impala. Drawn while in Africa "9:23 pm -- WHAT A DAY! Saw so many d...

My adventure in Africa 2012! Excerpts from my field sketchbook/journal. Day1 As soon as I stepped of the plane and onto the tarmac I could smell the difference... Arrived in Kilimanjaro airport in the middle of a thunderstorm, I have to tell you that I wasn't expecting that at all. A very small airport it didn't take very long to pick up my luggage and make my way out to the lobby where my guide and owner of OEA Safari Humphrey was waiting for me. Humphrey drove me through the pouring rain down in a complete blacked out landscape through the out skirts of Arusha where we ended up at his and his lovely wife's guest house. After some light snacks and a couple of glasses of a great South African Piontage I went to the guest house and called "it quits as I listen to the rain beat down in Africa... IN AFRICA!!!" Day 2 "Woke to the sound of pounding rain - Awesome!"  After a fantastic breakfast of fresh fruit, eggs and bacon and I have to tel...

Four new pieces arrive at Berkley Gallery... Last week I dropped off four new pieces to Berkley Gallery in Historic Old Town Warrenton, Virginia. "Serendipity (African Elephant),”   "Striped Horse (Zebra),”   "North Pond on Pea Island (White Ibis),” and “Longhorn” are all now hanging on the walls in the gallery. Berkley has been representing me for roughly five years now and it is very nice to have an east coast gallery within driving distance! I hope you have an opportunity to visit the gallery to see my new work. "Serendipity (African Elephant)" Graphite pencil on watercolor paper 7 x 10   "Striped Horse (Zebra)" Graphite Pencil on Arches #300 watercolor paper 6 x 10   "North pond on Pea Island (White Ibis)" Oil on board 12 x 22 "Longhorn" Graphite pencil on watercolor paper 7 x 11 I am also happy to announce an upcoming show in April 2013 that I will be part of at Berkley Gallery where ...