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An excercise in negative painting with my set of bister inks. I wasn't completely happy with the results - the bister ink was not as transparent as i expected it to be.

Charcoal and pastels

Cute peaceful fox drinking coffee, wearing a scarf. Trying gouache for the first time. It's a really nice medium. I am definitely going to keep at it and make some more gouache paintings.

Jellyfish mermaid created for the Mermaid Character Design Challenge

It’s housefly season. Thank goodness for screen doors.

Have been following the tutorials from draw with Shiba on YouTube. They're not as great as his. But I do like the way they came out.

I have a lot of cats living in my neighborhood now. I want to hug them all. Doodle made with iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and Procreate. Tracked time: 3 hours & 55 minutes.

Robin’s nest with eggs ready to hatch

Another black and white

Drawing done with graphite pencils, loved the face expressions

Sticky note musings on Hiatus Kaiyote and Snail Mail

A sketch of the river Thames, London looking towards Parliament

Color pencil drawing using Derwent Artists pencils on thick Cartridge paper. Many thanks for looking !

(HB pencil on 139mm x 89mm postcard) Another random, chaotic dreamscape image using the same techniques as previous pieces.

4" x 6" pen and ink on paper

Sketchbook, sharpie markers

Just doodling what comes to mind. Obviously water!

current mood

just me and my whale reading our fav book

Hand written

What's more comforting than a summer day with butterflies flitting and bumblebees tumbling amonst the flowers in the meadow? My husband felt that blue was most comforting for him. Me, I liked the salmon. The mandala is drawn in Spirality...which takes the designated "wedge" and repeats it around the circle. Colored in Photoshop (given there is a 20 min. time given for this challenge---otherwise, I would have colored it by hand).

A very closeup drawing in 4B, 6B, 8B pencil on Fabiano hotpress Studio paper. I bought some Pitt Graphite Matt pencils and wanted to give them a maiden voyage. They are much lighter on the scale of deep blacks than I expected. More like rarified F pencils. But I like them.

Acrylic on Bristol

WIP. Detail. Pandemic Self-Portrait No4. Some days feel darker than others. Oil on board.

Mixed media on cradled board

Poppies are among my favorite flowers---vibrant AND delicate. Great swaths of "bread poppies" garnish our garden. We harvest seeds for lemon-seed cake and poppy-seed rolls. (No, we don't harvest that other stuff.) They reseed generously and we have beautiful crops of red and purple flowers each year. I've been working on this colored pencil drawing for the past week. Enclosed are some images of the progress over that time.

A few days ago, I started a Pigma Micron pen 005 drawing of a tiger. Yesterday, I decided that it would be nice with colored pencil. I used Berol (1990's) Prismacolor, Koh-I-Noor Polycolor, Faber-Castell Polychromes colored pencils.

We're at the monster garden where the people were defeated, A guard is never needed 'cause the monsters must be feeded. I mean fed. Like I said: Peeps are happy to be eaten 'cause it's never all that long, Monsters do the number two and poop them back onto the lawn. Colored in @escapemotions Rebelle