This page was last modified on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 06:50:19 PM
This little window here requires flash. It's a cool slide shot application and allows me to put all the pics from a page on Zenfolio here and does not take up so
much space so if you don't have Flash, it's just a blank space. If you go to Youtube, you need Flash there too. The place to get flash installed is.....Adobe Flash
My newest piece of art is completed. It's a one off image hand drawn from a photo I took In Akutan Alaska in May.
Remember to support your local artist. Or to at least feed him since he may be starving.
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Akutan Eagle by Ricky Niell
Eagle in Akutan Alaska. The full resolution image is available on my Zenfolio site. this one is 800x600.
My name is Ricky and this is my website, showing some of my art. I am past president of the Frank Cockrell Art Association in
Fisher County, and past vice-president of the Wichita Falls Art Association. I am an artist and photographer. I teach drawing and
painting. I subscribe to the Giacometti drawing technique and learned to draw when I was a young man by copying comic book artists of
the sixties. My favorite artist of all time would be Jim Steranko. Others would be Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Simon Bisley, Gene Colan,
Paul Gulacy and many others. I like to draw more than anything as far as art goes and I don't blend. If it's in pencil, I use the cross hatching
technique. If you can master cross hatching in pencil, you don't need to blend. I use cross hatching and stipple when doing pen and ink.
One of the most visited pages on this site is the Basic Drawing lesson page. It basically goes over what you will need to
learn and do to draw like me. Drawing is much more in the mind than in any hand skill. You have to learn to see things as they are. Seeing
is the most important thing in drawing. So read the page carefully. Practice is another key to drawing. If you need help, email me and I'll do what I can
to help. I can be reached at......... rickyniell@gmail.com
Any images you may be interested in can be downloaded from my other site which is at......
My Zenfolio site
My blog is located here....
My blog TEXASCBX
All the images here on this site are actually hosted on a photo hosting company's servers. The company
is call Zenfolio. I've been using their services for three years now. Forty dollars a year for unlimited
photo storage and hosting. I have over 27Gb of images there now. They provide the code for embedding your
images at other parts of the web and have recently started providing slideshow HTML code with different
sizes. There is a free 14 day trial. If you sign up, use my code and you will get five bucks off. My code is
7VD-KZY-78V
Here is a little slideshow courtesy of Zenfolio.
Homer Alaska eagle on high alert for any dropped fish.
Still have a few prints available of this A-10 Thunderbolt II from Desert Storm.