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Inktober 2 - Familiar

Says it all and yet, nothing.

The start of some waves and clouds. A little too symmetrical for me, I need to work through it a little more.

Portrait practice last night as I was sitting on the porch.

Art therapy is good therapy.

I'm trying to decide between color or black and white for this beach scene that will have layered bright flowers.

detail of a little earth day poster I'm working on...

8.5 X 11 cardstock

Something belated.

The hangover song, heheheh.

Quiet nights in = essential for crafting new ideas...

I do like a good mondegreen, that much is true. See the radio edit of Royksopp’s ‘Remind Me’ for more details (I might not be mishearing the lyrics, but it’s still quite the earworm): https://youtu.be/XEQcWbbkyPY

Channelling my inner Trekkie, as it says on the tin here...

Something all over the shop.

What else is new here?

Hop stamp digital and watercolor

I had fun playing with some new markers last night.

I think I'm getting the hang of painting florals with gouache. It helped to decide on a palette and pre-mix the colors.

An ode to one more fresh start.

I'm playing around with a new color palette on this one. I may try a few now that I know about the recolor tool in illustrator!

Ideas, ideas everywhere... *suddenly realises he needs to buy another sketchbook*

Willingly burrows “Ian”...

I helped create the Island in the Sun can for Conshohocken Brewing Company a couple years back. They release it every year in the summer and I drew this up to celebrate the re-release this year!

With thanks (again) to endless listens of Devendra Banhart and other awesome folk like himself...heheh.

Graphite and iron oxide on watercolor paper

The kids jump, and call, and send koo wees up to the koo wee sky! When I draw happy characters like this I find myself smiling and I don't even realize it. I hope that happiness comes through in the art. - From "Graham's Up the Tree"

So Mum goes for the phone and these guys slip out the door to see what Graham is doing up in the tree... I can't believe they'd just leave their food behind like that. I mean... look at it. Mmm.

Charcoal and iron oxide recovered from acid mine runoff on watercolor paper