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Poppy and morning glories. Pigma micron and acrylics.

i doodled this a few weeks ago, my son and daughter in law have now claimed it for the wall.

experimented today with ink and paint.

A sketch...feel free to give some feedback

Nero extra soft oil based pencil is a great doodling and sketching tool that I have been using for a couple of years. Not smudgy and delivers good lines.

Sometimes I like to take ink splats and try to figure out what they are. Could there possibly be anything better than "crab dab"?

Colored pencil on toned paper

"Potato digger", watercolour and ink on paper, 210mm x 148mm(A5). Tiny painting made on my break from a bigger project I'm working on. The whole thing sprouted from a sketch of my small potato plant. Anyone else feels sorry for their patatoes when they sprout too much and plants them? The plants are so pretty, too!

8"x10" pen on paper

Here are several steps in the process of making a particularly complex pattern and some color variations.

A sketch from last February, inspired by Sigur rós' video for the song Ekki múkk.

When Rebelle 3 by Escape Motions came out I wanted to create something that really shows off its power. I normally draw in fountain pen first, but this was created entirely from scratch in Rebelle 3. Digital art tends to be cold and impersonal, but Rebelle's watercolor simulation looks & feels like real paint... and you can undo! That's critical for illustration work, as clients often request changes... But even for personal work- it means an artist can achieve a watercolor look without being at the mercy of the medium. So the result is more true to his or her vision.

Butterfly

The Dragons Pearl Story - this is one of 12 illustrations created for the story: A Dragons Pearl. This scene depicts the nasty theives from a nearby village trying to steal the pearl from Mother and son. The son is about to swallow the pearl to stop the theives from stealing it....