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The Pearl Brewery

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The once-shuttered Pearl Brewery is now home to a bunch of cool restaurants, offices and shops, as well as a campus of the Culinary Institute of America and apartments and condos.  But the best part of the area is still the part-gothic, part-industrial brewery building itself, and until now I hadn't given it the proper attention in a drawing.  There are plans to turn it into a hotel, and while I'm sure they'll retain all the 19th-century architecture, I doubt they'll keep all the cool pipes and fixtures sticking out of the sides.  So in the interest of documenting that side of the building I finally sat down the other day (in the shade) and tackled it.

Dinosaurs!

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For almost two months now I've been employed as a dinosaur expert at Dinosaur Quest here in San Antonio, which has renewed my interest in paleontology, especially drawing dinosaurs.  A long time ago (about fifteen years ago actually) I was a huge dinosaur nut.  I drew dinosaurs constantly, imitating my favorite "paleo-artists" Gregory Paul , Bob Bakker , Doug Henderson , and Mark Hallett .  But as time went on I got interested in other things and stopped drawings dinosaurs.  Then this job happened, and I was looking at dinosaur skeletons all day long.  So for the past month and a half I've been drawing dinos whenever I've had a chance.  Here are some of the better ones.  (And if you're waiting for more urban art, don't worry-- I've done some that I haven't had a chance to scan yet, and I'm also going to Dallas tomorrow with Linda to support her new book that came out yesterday, and I hope to do some urban sketching there, so stay tuned.) Ya