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Made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life.

Sketchbook chaos

Paddy fields

Sun too hot

Rita thinking something else

I am delighted to share that I Am a Dragon! has been named to the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's 2024 Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Best Books for Family Literacy! Here is the list ( I am in such a good company!): - “10 Dogs” by Emily Gravett - “ABC and You and Me” by Corinna Luyken - “Bear with Me” illustrated by Kerascoët, Sebastien Cosset and Marie Pommepuy, - “The Concrete Garden” by Bob Graham - “How to Count to ONE (And Don't Even THINK About Bigger Numbers!)” by Caspar Salmon and illustrated by Matt Hunt - “I Am a Dragon! A Squabble and a Quibble” by Sabina Hahn, published by HarperCollins. - “If I Was a Horse” by Sophie Blackall - “The Kitten Story” by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Brittany Cicchese - “Mr. S” by Monica Arnaldo - “Night in the City” by Julie Downing - “Ruffles and the Cozy, Cozy Bed” by David Melling - “Simon and the Better Bone” by Corey R. Tabor - “You Go First” by Ariel Bernstein and illustrated by Marc Rosenthal

Konishi Mansho (1600 - 1644), the last ordained priest to serve in Japan during the prohibition era of the Tokugawa Shogunate (think of the Shusaku Endo novel, "Silence", which was adapted to film by Martin Scorsese in 2016). Exiled from his homeland in 1614, he eventually made his way to Rome and enter a convent to be ordained as a priest. He would later to his home country to minister to the persecuted Christians there, only to be arrested and martyred in 1644. I tried to mimic a traditional ink painting style to invoke the melancholic feel of this homecoming journey.

Enjoying nature

Inktober 2023 Day 30 Flamingo ballpoint pen

Inktober 2023 Day 16

Fan art , study

First recipient of Elon Musk's Neuralink.

#18 Super Peach N64 - Doodle of the day is Super Mario characters in the low polygon angular style from the Nintendo 64. Drawn on magma.com with an iPad Pro

#17 Woodland Creatures - "Woodland Creatures" was the theme on Magma.com today. I decided to go with a giant turtle, but I have to say I'm not very happy with the way this turned out. Hopefully better results next time...

#16 Majestic Owl - featured briefly as a work in progress on youtube (Time Stamp: 1:10:35) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3SgImimtYc

A hard day's work is at it's end!

Little pause in my travelbook, for little watercolors mixed with ink pen on parisian landscapes in plein air

Three attempts at drawing a mouthwatering cocktail using mainly 4 colors (and a little black)

Little pause in my travelbook, for little watercolors mixed with ink pen on parisian landscapes

I had free time

Happy with how it came out, but painting the figure was hard ._. Gotta work on that.

2023, Ballpoint pens on 5” x 8” acid free Moleskine sketchbook paper, Adobe Photoshop colour correction. I was doing pre-purchase research before deciding on a set of noise cancelling earbuds when I landed on the Google Pixel Buds Pro website and found an interesting model in an interesting pose.

I rarely draw on paper, and mostly it's all sorts of little people or my characters in a silly style.

Fine tip black marker pen, colored pencil. 8.5"x11" sketchbook. 1995