Bosbyshell Art Studio

This is page one of a compilation of memories gathered from folks at several Climate Conversation Exhibits. These are memories that people s...

These banners are a combination of art and memories. The art is from Wil and Maura Bosbyshell. Maura provides her fiber art. Wil contributes...

This is the 21st drawing in my Climate Conversation tree series and it is very large. It is six by three feet in size on paper. I began this...

A prayer for Mother Earth on Mother's Day God by whom our fragile earth is blessed, make us servants of your creation, respecting and...

  Climate Conversations: Creation Care Artists talk and guided tour. This Sunday morning May 8 at 11:30 Wil Bosbyshell will lead a tour of ...

I have finished these drawings and I am in the process of getting them framed. They really came out well. The one above is 40 x 36...Big! Co...

Climate Conversations: I love the gingko tree in our front yard and love to see the leaves turn golden in the fall. I love our fig tree – it...

  This drawing is on watercolor paper. It is the darkest of the series so far. Conversations: I last climbed a tree as a child in my parents...

Climate Conversation: My favorite tree is the willow oak in our front yard in Fourth Ward. It shaded our home for 40 years. We pruned it and...

This is drawing 15 in the Tree Series I am working on. It is part of a future exhibit I am calling Climate Conversations. This is 22 x 30 on...

Go on a tour of my studio and see my latest Tree Series drawings. 

This is an experiment in paper with one of my tree series drawings. Usually I use sketch paper, but this is printing paper which is much thi...

This is a 3 x 4 foot drawing on sketch paper which is in process. It's about 50% complete. I began this drawing in Penland and have cont...

Here is Tree Series Drawing 14! While I was at Penland School of Arts & Craft in the NC Mountains this summer I began expanding and expe...

I took an experimental drawing class with Harriet Hoover at Penland this summer. It was an amazing class. Penland has a tremendous reputatio...

Biography Wil Bosbyshell received a BFA (as a member of the ROTC) and MBA from the University of Georgia, and spent six years as an officer ...

This is Drawing 13 of my Tree Series. The actual drawing exists in reality somewhere between these two images. The one on top is a high cont...

  Here is the final drawing. The bark had such a variety of textures that different parts of the drawing have very different feels. The cent...

Above, I began by using a very light silhouette of the entire tree to set the composition. Next with a very soft dark pencil I put in the bi...

Experimenting with cropping and composition with the various Tree drawings.