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Graphite on sketch paper.

Graphite drawing in a Moleskine notebook - illustration for Grimm's fairy tale. I'm posting both the raw graphite version and the one I painted in Photoshop b/c I never know which I end up liking better!

It's not time yet.

The heart might not but the mind finds a way.

Mixed media drawing. The sky can spread oppressively across a flat landscape like the meadows of the midwestern United States. In this drawing I wanted to evoke that sense as a backdrop for a trio of Weirds, soothsayers of folklore.

marker and colored pencil from the sketchbook

It’s easier to remain silent for someone whose words only ever got twisted. (spoke in other forms though) Running from what? Nothing. And everything. Until they fell off the edge - or flew- and plunged into an epiphany where words can’t even translate, can’t touch you. “Don’t you come looking for me” on the wind.

Watercolour painting of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Watercolour painting of Ponyo

Acrylic on canvas. Musical Magicians. The sound of my soul.

Elton John in ballpoint pen on newspaper print.

It was so meditative doing the shading and blending for this one.

Pink tulips on toned tan sketch paper. This was my first time burnishing. I used the toned tan paper so that I could better see the effects of burnishing with a white pencil. I used Prismacolor soft core pencils.

WIP in the sketchbook. Colored pencil, feeling like Springtime

A thought I've been having lately- To make peace without forgiveness, I do it for my own mind, my own future, and you need nothing from me too.

Pen and ink on yupo paper.

My 'copy' of a Judith Leyster painting; oils. She was a respected woman painter around the time of Hans Hals. A friend asked me to do it.

Lady on island; oil paint

Oil painting of Jimi Hendrix.