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Pen on paper drawing of a Bull Banksia candle.

I first started this oil on canvas painting at a conference in Lexington Kentucky. Transporting the wet canvas was a challenge

Keeping occupied pre-Samhuinn and Halloween night yet again, because I can’t keep the pen down this time around in the immediate run-up for some reason!

Banksia grandis is a banksia that is of medium height with large candles. The eyes contain seeds that come out with fire.

It wasn’t intentional but now I can’t unsee two birds.

This quick sketch of an impressionist painting is a reminder to me of how we cannot see anything until we are taught to see it. I was enjoying the painting because of the way Tarbell captured light, when a man and his wife joined me. The man said to his wife: "This is a wonderful painting, but I wonder whose lap the baby is on.". I was shocked because I was not able to see the baby till he mentioned that there was one. I noticed that it was indeed difficult to tell whose lap it was on. It was a transformative and humbling experience.

These stickers and this washi tape… what more can I say?

Capturing the spaces in between and amplifying them with a play on exposure and contrast to bring forth the beauty I see within the layers. This particular play is a flower I saved from a very special event I attended. I then dried the petals of this beauty. These special petals make their way to various projects, including oil and acrylic paintings and resin on canvas. More to come :)

I have a certain energy that runs through me, almost like a current. Balancing this energy can be quite a challenge, but I have found that meditation helps me to find my center. I like to quiet the noise around me and focus on my inner truth. Sometimes, I begin my meditation with my eyes closed, allowing my emotions to guide me in sketching out my experiences. This helps me to open up my channels of creativity, which I am currently using to work on my upcoming novel. I can't reveal too much about it yet, but I hope you will enjoy the sneak peeks I'll be sharing as I work toward completion.

To all my spiritual friends out there… if you can throw us some magic to warm up the weather that’d be great, heheheh!

The zany things my girlfriend and I say to one another when we banter around… it gives me motivation to draw so can I complain? Can I heck!

Fishing for ideas and well, we can all see what happened next!

Putting stickers from the art market I went to last week into good use at last! :-)

Acrylic on canvas, 8x10, reference photo by Stacey Martin on Unsplash.com

Everybody's in a hurry to get outside; can't wait for spring to get here

Canus in pencil

The stickers I accquired at the last art market I visited, as you can see, have gotten my creative mojo spiked up :-)

I just dig this up can we keep it

Can't sleep, go for a ride.

Today’s one of those busier ones! Can’t complain.

Figured I’d try my hand at something fan art flavoured for this one… namely in the form of my favourite tiny fictional character, Kirby! I can’t ascertain when exactly I became a fan of the Kirby franchise, although playing Super Smash Bros as a young boy may have something to do with that. Whatever the case, I got hooked on the pink (or blue in some cases) puffball very quickly!

A large piece I did for a show in Kansas City coming up.

Had to sneak in a Barbie and Oppenheimer reference in here!

This narwhal got a tad spooky.