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    • Iraq 2003
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    • Iraq 2019
    • United Nations refugees
    • Homeless
    • Wounded warriors
    • Courtroom Sketching
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    • Pediatric Cardiac ICU
    • Life drawing
    • Finland 2023
    • RNLI 2023
    • Canada/Ukraine 2023
    • Nordic Response
  • Urban Sketching

Less an online portfolio and more a general dumping ground of field sketching

"The tradition of Howard Brodie, Bill Maudlin, and Winslow Homer's stunning Civil War art for Harper's Weekly, is alive and well in the drawings of Richard Johnson."
JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY, Author of "We Were Soldiers Once … and Young"


"Johnson draws in the field, sparking an immediacy and freshness that traditional war illustrations lack . . . he never goes back to it to do the ‘prettying up’ that other artists do . . . he captures the everyday reality of life on the ground through his raw artistic approach".
JENNIFER LOCKE JONES, Smithsonian Museum of Armed Forces History


OP Reassurance - NATO Multinational Brigade Latvia

    OP Unifier - Canadians and Ukrainians at Camp Sapper

      HMCS Charlottetown

        RCAF ATF-Prestwick 2024

          Iraq 2003

          Afghanistan 2011

          Afghanistan 2007

          With the US Marine Corps invading Iraq in 2003.

          Afghanistan 2007

          Afghanistan 2011

          Afghanistan 2007

          Kandahar, Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces in the thick of the fight in 2007.

          Afghanistan 2011

          Afghanistan 2011

          Afghanistan 2011

          Kandahar, Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces in a shifting conflict in 2011.

          Afghanistan 2012

          Afghanistan 2012

          Afghanistan 2011

          Qalat, and Kabul, Afghanistan with US and last of Canadian Forces in 2012.

          Afghanistan 2014

          Afghanistan 2012

          Afghanistan 2014

          Ghazni, Kandahar, and Kabul, Afghanistan with US forces in 2014.

          Ukraine 2015

          Afghanistan 2012

          Afghanistan 2014

          Ukraine with Canadian and US forces working a training mission in 2015.

          Norway 2018

          Djibouti 2018

          Djibouti 2018

          In Norway with the United States Marines during Trident Juncture in 2018.

          Djibouti 2018

          Djibouti 2018

          Djibouti 2018

          In Djibouti with the United States Marines during Alligator Dagger in 2018.

          Iraq 2019

          Djibouti 2018

          Wounded Warriors

          In Kuwait and Iraq with the United States Marines for Inherent Resolve in 2019.

          Wounded Warriors

          United Nations refugees

          Wounded Warriors

          Work with wounded personnel in Canada, US, and Afghanistan since 2003.

          Homeless folks

          United Nations refugees

          United Nations refugees

          Homelessness in the US including a stay in a homeless shelter for veterans.

          United Nations refugees

          United Nations refugees

          United Nations refugees

          Internally displaced people and refugees. 

          USMC base Quantico

          Sketches from the USMC basic school in Quantico, Virginia.

          USCG and NORAD

          Sketches of NORAD and Coast Guard installations, personnel, and aircraft.

          Courtroom drawing

          Courtroom art from various trials of terrorists and politicians.

          Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit

          Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) of the Children’s National Medical Center in D.C. 

          Life drawing

          All the naked people from life drawing. Just the good drawings though.

          Urban sketching

          All the drawings I do when I am not drawing for a specific purpose.

          Finland 2022

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          Sketches from Op Freezing Winds 22

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          Sketches from Op UNIFIER

          RNLI 2023

          Canada/Ukraine 2023

          RNLI 2023

          Sketches from my days with the RNLI

          Nordic Response 2024

          Sketches from USMC winter survival training in Norway

          Contact

          Contact me about projects, sales, signed prints, or questions about drawing.

          richardjosephjohnson@yahoo.com

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