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Another face in my journal that has black paper.

Charcoal and iron oxide recovered from acid mine runoff on watercolor paper

Experimenting with my cats. Somehow this guy has one really big ear. I didn't even notice until I took his picture.

Charcoal and iron oxide recovered from acid mine runoff on watercolor paper

Fineliner sketch depicting the unruly world that is the press, i struggle with many news outlets and the odds they use to sell and manipulate people. It can cause real suffering, real negativity, real bigotry. Blood is on all there hands.

Another throwback of doodle on starbuck cup. Done long time ago.

pen and pencil on paper

I did a lot of cats in the Daniel Smith green gold watercolor. Definitely a fun color!

Practicing with my dip pen, not great paper but still kinda cute.

pen and pencil on paper

It's cool how the internet can bring people together from far away places to make things. "Graham's Up the Tree" is based on a true story from the life of author mbpardy ... He's in Australia - I'm in Seattle area. When he posts these images at his page I see comments from people who grew up with real life versions of these characters I drew -- People that actually looked out the window and saw this little guy high up at the top of a tree... where no one else could go.

Green Man - commissioned illustration using pen and ink

Back to the basics!

Watercolour crayon, crayon and fineliner drawing... i like to think everything is connected and feeds off each other, a constant cycle. Im fasinated with plants like the venus fly traps and tried to incorporate into the flower with some snake eyes.

Los Capsus son una serie de personajes en forma de capsulas con una gran cantidad de expresiones divertidas. ellos acostumbran invadir los espacios mas creativos de la imaginación con sus situaciones llenas de locuras. las ilustraciones de los Capsus están plagadas de actividades como la observación, búsqueda y el descubrimiento del espacio invadido, sus mundo no tiene reglas ni instrucciones, lo único que tiene es diversión en cada imagen.

This is the converted school bus that belonged to Route 66 super sketcher Bob Waldmire (RIP). It's here at our museum, so I sketched it one day. It's an amazing studio/home on wheels!!

An artwork done for him, who I love very much. He means the world to me. :)

Done on Mr. Doobs freehand

This painting is a technique I enjoy mostly because I see figures in the ordinary and draw them out from what I see in abstract backgrounds I paint. In it you see a group of people enjoying time together. I used Acrylics on Aquaboard, a surface especially made for many layers of wet media.