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I draw. I draw a lot. Maybe too much. USMC combat artist. Was @washingtonpost , @UNOCHA , @nationalpost , @freep , @globeandmail , @theprovince , & @djcad . @mckinsey .
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#datavisualisation
#infographic
#covid19
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Dig if you will the picture - created today for tomorrow's
@nationalpost
by THE
@KaganMcLeod
There can be only one.
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Where is flight MH370? All in one graphic for the lazy eh!
http://t.co/kIaFCLsulM
Guaranteed true for the next hour.
http://t.co/gwUnBM0gtZ
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USMC Sergeant waiting on Navy divers to find his missing Marines who disappeared crossing the canal. Iraq 2003.
@urbansketchers
@MarineMuseum
@USMCArchives
@USMC
@RCRMuseum
@CanWarMuseum
@CanadaNATO
@CDS_Canada_CEMD
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Though shalt not move without suppressing fire, cover, or concealment. MOUT training 101 at Quantico in Virginia. Great vid by Vic Juhasz
#usmc
@TheBasicSchool
@urbansketchers
@MarineMuseum
combat art program training as well.
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A month ago I auctioned a field sketch for my local food bank. I don't sell my field work. No big deal. Some are in the Smithsonian. Some in the USMC Museum. The rest I figured I'd leave to my kids. Biggest donation 'offered' to my local food bank, WINS this original. 24 hours.
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A little winter time sketching in Scotland. Wonderful near horizontal light in the late afternoon. Then colour. No bloody idea what I am doing with the watercolours.
@urbansketchers
@UrbSketchLondon
Using my
@StillmanandBirn
delta series landscape sketchpad sideways aye.
@DJCAD
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Everyone thinks they like drawing till the try sketching a boat. A lovely four hours spent down at Troon Lifeboat station. This time it was calm enough to stand on the dock to sketch the RNLB Jim Moffat. Cauld tho aye.
@RNLI
@TroonLifeboat
@urbansketchers
@prismacolor
graphite eh
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Sketching at the
@airandspace
museum in Dulles today. Planes are hard. Ballpoint. Forty minutes of misery.
@urbansketchers
@smithsonian
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Sketching babies and their parents at Children's National Medical Center in D.C.
@urbansketchers
@USk_Pekalongan
@Sketch_Dailies
@SOI128
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Art worth staring at. Rebeca Puebla.
@subversivegirl
Man I love good drawing.
@sketchbookskool
@Sketch_Dailies
@Drawinglives
@urbansketchers
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I don't sell my war sketches generally. I'll let this helmet sketch go to who offers the best donation to my local food bank providing meals to kids out-of-school. Sketched in Afghanistan in 2012 - sitting in the dirt hoping for a bird out of COP Mizan. 24 hours
#coronavirus
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I rarely sell stuff but I am putting this original sketch of a Ukrainian soldier up for auction with 100% of the proceeds going to Red Cross Ukraine. From my time with
@CanadianArmy
RCR1 ROTO1 training in Ukraine. Bid over on Linkedin.
@CAFinUS
@UAWeapons
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Lately I have been working on sketching on colored paper, before then going back in with the highlights. No idea what I am doing though eh.
@USCG
@USCGLANTAREA
@ComdtUSCG
@urbansketchers
@USCGPacificNW
#HITRON
@USMC
@MarineMuseum
@CanWarMuseum
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So what is a court artist to do when he is told specifically not to draw the jury?
#sketches
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Sketch in the barn. My friend Will’s old Massey Ferguson 240 in rural Maryland.
@PrismacolorUS
pencil.
@urbansketchers
Rusty like the tractor but held it together.
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Art worth staring at. Nicolai Fechin (1881–1955). Man I love good drawing.
@sketchbookskool
@Sketch_Dailies
@Drawinglives
@urbansketchers
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Great model last night at life drawing. This was a 30 minute pose, and man do those minutes fly by. Great practice though. Prismacolor pencil on Strathmore grey.
@urbansketchers
@RoyalDrawing
@DJCAD
@BlaeberryRiver
@SGFADrawing
#lifedrawing
#nude
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Pissed off vacuuming on a Saturday when I noticed this framed sketch I did of my wife a decade and a half ago. Probably been hung in a half a dozen homes since then. Man I love her like the morning I drew her. I still hate vacuuming, but I love her... ...right skirting boards.
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Sketched after riding in an USMC MV-22 Osprey filled with young Marines from Kuwait to Iraq. It occured to me mid-flight that I am too old for this shit
@CanWarMuseum
…
@TheBasicSchool
@MarineMuseum
@usmc
@USAfricaCommand
@CAFinUS
#draw
#sketch
#reportage
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One of the bidders who missed out on my sketch auction for Ukraine contacted me because - regardless of anything else - he wanted to donate. I dug through the sketch archive and found another. More money for Ukraine Red Cross.
@RCRMuseum
@CAFinUS
@Ukraine
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Sketch during initial training of Ukrainian recruits in storming trenches. Canadian instructors shout instructions through interpreters, and tap recruits on helmet with stick for emphasis.
#opunifier
@CanEmbUkraine
@CanadaNATO
@CAFwithUkraine
@USMCMuseum
@DefenceU
@Ukraine
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Live sketch of C-130 inside the hangar at
@USMC
base Cherry Point while working as a volunteer with the
@USMCMuseum
combat art program.
@urbansketchers
@USMCLibrary
#usmc
#cherrypoint
web Prismacolor pencil on Strathmore paper.
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In Djibouti, waiting for the
@26meu
to arrive, Cpt.Baumann and I killed time on the flight line
@Camp_Lemonnier
making nice with
@usairforce
. Possible I misjudged the size of a C-130 on initial page start.
@Brandlingle
@CanWarMuseum
@MarineMuseum
@C130net
@USMC
#usairforce
#c130
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Sketch of the kids by the river. Dogs walking themselves somewhere nearby. Ballpoint. 10 mins.
@urbansketchers
#draw
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Art worth staring at. Käthe Kollwitz 1867–1945. So much pain captured. Last is self portrait.
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Probably my best from Djibouti. Third run of the morning on mechanized assault training for Fox Company of the
@26MEU
a few days ago. AAV running at flat out. Everyone sways together. The AAV is filled with dust and sweat. It is not even 8.00 am.
@USMC
@MarineMuseum
@Marinetimes
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This is Martha. She has been my quarantine buddy for the last 13 days. She does not lie still very often so this one took some stalking. Ballpoint pen. About ten minutes.,
@urbansketchers
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Sketching my way through quarantine in the UK. Fortunate that my cousin has this tiny house in his garden. Nine days to go. Ballpoint on Stillman and Brin.
#illustrationart
#sketchbook
#reportage
#pleinair
#tinyhouse
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They are killing people in Gaza faster than they can be counted and categorized.
http://t.co/6sbKe2f6ye
#gaza
#israel
http://t.co/qJsC1rDeFu
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Machinist Mate about to restart a boiler on the
@LHD5
. Ballpoint. 5 minutes.
@urbansketchers
@USNavy
@Sketch_Dailies
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Note: The study at the centre of this article on the transmission of the coronavirus was retracted on Tuesday by the journal Practical Preventive Medicine without giving a reason.
Simple and terrifying little exhibit on how COVID-19 infected passengers on a local bus in China. Study found Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’ and stay in air for 30 minutes.
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#covid19
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Last chance to finish this before I leave Rome. Never enough time.
@urbansketchers
3 hours over 3 mornings Ballpoint
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#TridentJuncture2018
A sketch of the burly beachmaster who gently advised me to, "get off the beach, or get run over by a hovercraft.' An easy decision on my part. Thank you sir. For the advice, and for agreeing to the portrait.
@USNavy
@USNavyEurope
@NATOpress
@MarineMuseum
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A few days at hame and a few hours in the woods and I found my drawing mojo again
@urbansketchers
@DrawDeck
@sketchbookskool
@Sketch_Dailies
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My daughter's beaver project. Age 6. It may be possible to tell her dad makes infographics.
@toddlindeman
@acuadra
@visualisingdata
#dataviz
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Sketches I did of Wounded Marines at Walter Reed in 2004.
@USMCArchives
Exhibiting soon at USMC Museum in Quantico.
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My full set of watercolor sketches of megaliths from Scotland last month.
#watercolorpainting
#watercolor
Pretty much your 'rookie straight-from-the-tray' watercoloring but not devoid of hope.
@urbansketchers
@STWatercolour
@ExhibitionDJCAD
@VisitScotland
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Final piece from a fun and inspirational day out with
@KrisBattles
and
@cjbaumann_art
chasing
@USMC
Lieutenants around the MOUT training site at TBS at Quantico day before yesterday.
@MCB_Quantico
@15thMEUOfficial
@26MEU
@MarineMuseum
@USMC
@USMCArchives
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Rolling through Kabul with Canadian Special Forces dodging rocks thrown by school kids
@USFOR_A
@CanadaNATO
Bless em
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Always wanted to try one of these Rome city sketches. 3 hour over 3 days.
@urbansketchers
Never again. Ballpoint.
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Canucks in Ukraine. Canadian MCpl. discussing infantry tactics after dodgy drill.
@urbansketchers
@cdn_forces
@CanWarMuseum
@CanadaNATO
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Art worth staring at. Man, I love strong women. Heather Horton. Like someone injected her oil paints with life itself.
@Heather_Horton
#art
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Some of my work from my time with the Canadian Forces Artist Program - Get that application in early
@urbansketchers
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Another sketch post from my coverage of Freezing Winds 22 in Finland last week working for the USMC Combat Art program. LCpl. Kayla Julow just up in the early a.m. after about a week in the field.
#NATO
#usmc
#finland
@urbansketchers
@NATOpress
@FinMissionNATO
@USMCMuseum
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Man I hate flying in helicopters so I do this to distract me from their complete inability to glide after engine failure.
@urbansketchers
@CDS_Canada_CEMD
@CAFinUkraine
@CAFinUS
@NATOpress
@USNATO
@26MEU
@Official13thMEU
@11thmeu
@MarineMuseum
@flymcaa
@RCAF_ARC
@UKRinCAN
#draw
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Sold one of my sketches to a collector in Canada. This one is from 2010 as a soldier with R22R le Vingt-deuxième takes a break during a stop and frisk foot patrol out of COP Najet
@USMC
@MarineMuseum
@MarineCorpsFdn
@CorpsHistory
@rcr
@RoyalMarines
#vandoos
@CAFinUS
@CanWarMuseum
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Canucks in Ukraine. Sketch in progress.
@CanWarMuseum
@cdn_forces
@CanadaNATO
@CanadianForces
@NATO
@MichaelDFay1
#2RCR
@CanadasMilHist
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Third run of the morning on mechanized assault training for Fox Company of the
@26MEU
in Djibouti a few days ago. AAV running a flat out. Everyone sways together. The AAV is filled with dust and sweat. It is not even 8.00 a.m.
@MarineMuseum
@USMC
@CanWarMuseum
@MCB_Quantico
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So what is a court artist to do when he is told the jury will remain anonymous by the judge?
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Sketched from below the guard rail on the flight deck of
@LHD5
@USNavy
@USMCArchives
@illustrationHQ
@COLOREDPENCILM
@IllustrationAge
#drawn
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Part of our
@MarineMuseum
coverage of
#TridentJuncture2018
in Norway with
@cjbaumann_art
@USMC
@24MEU
. One of my few finished pieces so far. Not a great scan though.
@MarineMuseum
@NATO
@iimefmarines
@iimefinfogroup
@MarForEUR_AF
@CanWarMuseum
@NATOpress
LAV on a short halt.
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Never let it be said I don't pay my debts. A piece I did for the
@USCG
Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron in Jacksonville last week.
@MarineMuseum
@uscoastguard
@USCGSoutheast
@USMC
These folks abruptly slow the high-speed drug boats in the Gulf of Mexico.
@CAFinUS
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Sketched on my back in the Maria busted hangar in SJ Puerto Rico. PR ANG C130.
@urbansketchers
@AirNatlGuard
@PuertoRicoPUR
@USAF_ACC
#maria
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Sketched during TBS MOUT training
@MCB_Quantico
. Have to be fast. No time to be accurate. Just have to keep the pencil on the paper and let it flow. One continuous line. Shade added later.
@urbansketchers
@UrbSketchLondon
@USMC
@USMCArchives
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First time joining a
#PortfolioDay
. I go out where things are shitty and dangerous and draw what I see for
@MarineMuseum
and
@MarineCorpsFdn
. If I do a decent job the work ends up in the collection of the
@MarineMuseum
if not it goes in the pile in my office under the dog snacks.
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USMC helicopter on the beach in Djibouti last week. Absolutely love the shape and power of these beasts.
@26MEU
@USMCArchives
@MarineMuseum
@CanWarMuseum
@USMCArchives
@urbansketchers
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Oot and aboot in Scotland. Drawn with a pen borrowed from a lovely dog walking lady after I forgot to bring one.
@urbansketchers
Bless ye.
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Probably my best from my short stint in the Djibouti dirt with Fox Company of
@26MEU
a couple of weeks back. Scene in the back of an AAV rolling out for third time before breakfast one morning
@MarineMuseum
@CanWarMuseum
@USMC
@Drawinglives
@SmithsonianMag
#sketch
#marines
#draw
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Art worth staring at. Costa Dvorezky. Just gob-smackingly confident, lush, ballsy brilliant.
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Day one of sketching at Marine Corps Base Quantico with a group of new and experienced combat artists.
@USMCArchives
@usmc
@urbansketchers
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"End of the road." One of twenty field sketches that are up for consideration to enter the Smithsonian Museum of Armed Forces History collection.
@USMC
@flymcaa
@CanWarMuseum
@CAFinUS
@CAFinUkraine
@CAF_College
@CFOperations
@USMCArchives
@smithsonian
From Afghanistan in 2011.
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Every man in Scotland has one of these in their garage ... or in their dreams.
@urbansketchers
@UrbSketchLondon
@scotland
@landrover
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Just love those muscular beech trees. Great fun to draw. They seem more alive in their writhing limbs than any other tree.
@urbansketchers
@PleinAirMag
@VisitScotland
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IF IN DOUBT...
@CanadianForces
@CanadianArmy
@usarmy
@USMC
@MarineMuseum
@USForeignAssist
@NATO
@urbansketchers
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A few of the beardies of the of Canada’s Special Operations Regiment in Kabul in 2012.
@CanWarMuseum
@cdn_forces
@CanadaNATO
@CanadasMilHist
@CanadasMilHist
@USMCArchives
@CanEmbUkraine
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@urbansketchers
Just draw. Everywhere. All the time. You'll capture memories & create a lasting human historical documentation of your life.
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Journalist eye-view of the conflict in Afghanistan.
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Training of Ukrainian recruits in storming trenches – predictably in the sheeting rain and mud. Canadian tutors monitor every movement and correct and explain - the why as well as the how.
@RCRMuseum
@RCRBuck
@CanadianArmy
@CanWarMuseum
@NATO
@CAFwithUkraine
@DefenceU
@USMCMuseum
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Alabama ANG F16 phase refit at Bagram in 2014. No cameras with the panels off. But pencils ok.
@urbansketchers
#draw
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The lazy bastard guide to climbing Everest. It is that time of year again after all. WARNING Some scrolling involved. Most of the real work on this was done by
@LazaroGamio
and
@bonnieberkowitz
. Best enjoyed online.
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Late evening light at Al Asad sketching this
@USArmy
Apache on the flight line. No Cobras available. One of those moments for taking stock, while cursing the impossible to draw helo.
@USArmyAfrica
@USMC
@UrbSketchLondon
@PleinAirMag
@urbansketchers
@USMCFEA
@MarineMuseum
#sketch
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Sketch from my time in Rome on my recent Migration trip with
@McKinsey
and
@OIMItalia
@urbansketchers
Drawn on three mornings on way to IOM.
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Work in progress on my portrait of Captain Greg Mallet-Prevost an USMC Vietnam vet who was based near Hue during the Tet offensive in 1968.
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105 years ago Titanic sank. Who survived the sinking depended on how much you paid for your ticket.
@visualisingdata
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Suppressing Fire. During TBS MOUT training
@MCB_Quantico
. A piece I worked on after the fact from sketches created on the day.
@urbansketchers
@UrbSketchLondon
@USMC
@USMCArchives
@MarineMuseum
@flymcaa
@MarineCorpsFdn
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Tom Miller a USMC veteran who by any measure lived enough life for any two of us.
@USMCArchives
@USMC
@WestPoint_USMA
@MCB_Quantico
@urbansketchers
@DeptVetAffairs
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Iraq. 2003. Driving toward Baghdad to visit some of our USMC lads in a MASH unit after a convoy crash. Open top humvee picking the grit from our teeth.
@USMCArchives
@USMC
@USMCMuseum
@MCA_Marines
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Selling some of these old sketches. Come browse. It'll look like you are working to your boss anyway.
@urbansketchers
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Just finished the auction on this piece from Ukraine. $700 US which will be tripled by
@McKinsey
with all the money going to the Ukraine Red Cross. Thanks to everyone who bid and thanks to
@thebantyone
the winner.
#UkraineCrisis
#SaveUkraine
@CAFinUkraine
@CAFinUS
@SOI128
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What to draw in jury selection when they tell you the jury must remain anonymous.
@urbansketchers
@UrbSketchLondon
@sketchbookskool
#sketchy
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The Rock Creek Park Police station in Washington D.C. Ballpoint. About and hour sitting on the cross bar of my bike.
@urbansketchers
#sketch
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Art worth staring at. Tetyana Yablonska. Before the start. 1947. Ukraine. So much life.
@CanEmbUkraine
@Ukraine
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Just packed up the last of my drawings for delivery for exhibition
@CanWarMuseum
All art I made in Ukraine in 2015.
@CanadaNATO
@cdn_forces
@RCRMuseum
@USMCArchives
@CanEmbUkraine
@MFA_Ukraine
@Ukraine
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Anonymous (Lena) reporters and their desks at the Washington Post.
@The_Big_Draw
@JournoResource
@journtoolbox
#draw
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Underwing sketch of USAF C-130 at Bagram. Only shady spot I could find was right under the wing.
@USAF_ACC
@USFOR_A
@cdn_forces
@CanWarMuseum
@urbansketchers
@CDS_Canada_CEMD
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Jimmy and Fausto the IED sniffing dog in Kandahar Province in 2010. Jimmy was a former US Marine. Jimmy and Fausto worked every foot patrol for the Canadians out of COP Najet.
@CanWarMuseum
@CAFinUS
@CanadianPM
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Killing time. Waiting to sail. USS Bataan. Prismacolor pencil. Couple of hours in.
@USMC
@USNavy
@urbansketchers
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Urban sketching ancient Rome. Ballpoint.
#sketchjanuary
#sketches
#drawingaday
#draw365
#italy
@ItalyMagazine
#draw
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I spent a day down at Joint Base Andrews with the 113th Air Wing of the Air National Guard on scramble readiness. Part of a package I am working on about NORAD. 6,500 sorties since 9/11 in defense of the National Capital Region.
@urbansketchers
@usairforce
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Big Betty.
@USMC
@26MEU
tankers waiting in line to fill up with fuel somewhere in the middle of the Djibouti wastelands during operations last week.
@USMCArchives
@nbpogg
@MarineMuseum
@22nd_MEU
@11thmeu
I never feel the tankers get enough love. This one is for you Betty.
#m1a1
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Afghanistan 2007. Canadian Role 3 Hospital at KAF. Surgical team works to find all the shrapnel in wounded Afghan policeman.
@CanWarMuseum
@CAFinUS
@CanadianForces
@CanadianPM
@CFOperations
@CanEmbUkraine
@NATOscr
@NATO
@NATOpress
@MarineMuseum
@urbansketchers
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Art worth staring at. Howard Brodie 1915 – 2010. Man Brodie could draw.
@sketchbookskool
@Sketch_Dailies
@Drawinglives
@urbansketchers
@usmc
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