Welcome to my online gallery!

This blog will house current projects, competed works, and an archive of past works by me, David M. Vaughn of Cheney, Washington! I prefer charcoal, pencil, ink, and oil pastels. In the future I intend to incorporate sculpture and acrylic painting into my practice - much to learn! I also hope to start incorporating more projects I've got rummaging around in my head and a few of my favorite landscapes in the greater Spokane area. Once I get a start on anything, I'll post on the Work-in-Progress page.

For the time being the body of my work is focused on figure drawing, a discipline I greatly enjoy and can't learn enough from. I will be incorporating more projects I am working on as time progresses.

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Psssst...hey...WANNA SEE SOME COOL ROBOTS!!!!

Hallo! Welcome to Zero Uno Zero!

Today was the grand opening of my good and longtime friend Danny Caldwell's gallery and gift shop, Zero Uno Zero, featuring a wide assortment of ROBOTS!!!!! And holy snike are they some robots to see :) Danny has been kicking out, and continues to kick out, outstanding one-of-a-kind robot creations (please see exhibit A - Hawkeye - below), all of which are viewable on his site at http://www.zerounozerorobotics.com/. And I need to keep up with him ;) More art, including t-shirts, pillows, and some charcoal and pencil drawings, will be posted there (including prints - which I'm very excited about!) in the very near future. Feel free to drop by the FB site at https://www.facebook.com/ZeroUnoZeroRobotics and give Danny a like as well!

Also, take a peek at the videos - the Zero Uno Zero team has come up with some pretty fun stuff! Particularly the robot picture above, who is in his very own silent movie adventure!!!!

A big thanks to Danny for bringing me in on a team of fantastic artists, including Kenneth Shinabery, Tom Caldwell, Ruby Lee, Nikai Birchler, and of course Danny Caldwell and Daisy Hall. You guys rock!
A small peek at the gift shop and gallery -
Daisy and Danny!

I think this is my very first selfie...

Danny and Tom!

Hawkeye and Rocket, 18X24in, Charcoal and Pastel Conte on 80lb Co-Mo Sketch
One of my favorites thus far...Hawkeye and Rocket
Riley the Robot, 18X24in, Charcoal on 80lb. Co-Mo Sketch


Sunday, May 18, 2014

Working in the Sketchbook once more :)


Here is a peek at my recent work from Julie Suchanek's Figure Drawing Studio at Spokane Art Supply! Once again I broke out the sketchbook - click here to take a look-see. Had a few challenges this last session which kicked my butt; which is good, cause you never get any better unless you dive in, right?

 I've also been working on a project with an old friend who has asked if I could draw some absolutely fantastic robot sculptures he's created - look for a link here in the near future!

Finally a very large figure drawing, one about six feet tall, has been hanging in my garage/studio on the back-burner; high-time I gots to working on it! So be looking for some progression pics this summer!

Thank you for looking, and happy spring ya'all!

Monday, February 17, 2014

More figure drawings added to the old sketchbook!

2014 Feb 30 Min. Pose, 11X8 in., Charcoal
I'm very happy to report that my sketchbook is getting use! Most recently from a Saturday Figure Drawing studio at Spokane Art Supply! This, plus three more have been added to my Sketchbook 2013/2014 page on my blog, accessible by clicking on the link in this post or the link to the right of the page.

I'm continuing to get used to such a small format. No more getting my hands completely covered in charcoal! It's been a good exercise in measurement, proportion, and precision laying down lines. By the next figure drawing studio in March I hope to apply what I've been learning to some really, really big drawings...maybe 6 foot high, if I can manage it. We shall see :D

Take care ya'all, and Thank You for looking! If you're interesting in acrylic painting, it looks like my sponsor has a free ebook out - click on the add to check it out!

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

New page added - Sketchbook for 2013/2014

Here we go! It's high time I kept up with a decent looking sketchbook :) It's going to be multipurpose - everything and anything will go into this, most notably drawing completed with the Spokane Sketchers group (look us up on Meetup.com if yer interested) and figure drawings from Spokane Art Supply. Here is a quick peek at some work so far; much more on the page, accessed from the panel to your right.



Thank you for looking! And wishing you all a very happy and productive NEW YEAR!!!!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

New work completed last night - prego Melissa!

Melissa, 30 X 36 in., Charcoal on 80 lb. Co-Mo Sketch
I was finally able to buckle down last night and finish a drawing started back in September. My good friend Melissa and her husband Karl are expecting their first kiddo, and she was kind enough to let me draw her! It was certainly an honor to be asked, and I enjoyed drawing this one very much. Congrats to Melissa and Karl - I am so excited for you guys :)

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Busy Weekend - Terrain 6 and Spokane Art Supply!

A big Thank You to Spokane Art Supply for hosting me!
The boys stopped by and helped me out!
Outside Summertime Bath - WIP, 36X30 in., Charcoal on 80 lb. Co-Mo sketch
Doug, Don, Colley, and me! All the artists that were there demonstrating were fantastic, and I felt very honored to be working the canvas next to them :) I've got a link to Don's stuff below - absolutely addicting is how I'd describe his sketchbooks and work...it was such a pleasure!
Terrain! Was packed!!! Here is a view from the balcony overlooking the 1st floor.
3rd floor was open this year as well - such a fantastic space and event, all around. Great variation of media, very talented fellow artists, lots of inspiration, great music, and absolutely fantastic patrons make this such a one-of-a-kind event. Go Spokane!
If ya got here after 8PM or so....here's the line :)
What a weekend, folks! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and saw my work at Terrain 6 on Friday and who visited Spokane Art Supply on Saturday for the Great Art Adventure. It is absolutely inspiring to display with and work alongside artists, of all genres, and talk art with everyone under the sun. Particularly at Spokane Art Supply - got to meet several regional and one national artist and not only see their work, but see them in action. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity. A big Thank you to Victor, Betty Jo, and Julie for hosting me at SAS and to the folks at Terrain!

To check out the artists, you can go to Spokane Art Supply's FB page here (and don't forget to like them!) - Spokane Art Supply on FB.

I had the pleasure of meeting Don Colley of Chicago, whose sketchbooks I can't even begin to describe to do them justice. Unique, lively, with some downright beautiful figure sketches, vivid landscapes, shady characters from a psycho rail union, courtroom sketches and deadly clowns...all of it captivating! I could have spent hours pouring over the work, most of it done in ledgers and record books from before the 50's! Absolutely loved it! To check out Don's work, here are two of his pages:
         buttnekkiddoodles
         doncolleysroadtrip.com

Have several projects in the works right now; still have to draw a tattoo for a friend, I was commissioned to draw a figure drawing for a friend, which will be posted soon, and I've got three other figure drawings I've been itching to get at, along with the work I started with Big T and Little T in the tub...phew! I'd better get hot!