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Quick line portrait in my journal as I spice it up to receive daily musings.

We wrapped up our trip with South of the Border, the schlockiest, most-borderline-offensive Mexican-themed South Carolina rest stop of all time. Then we hit Raleigh's art museum, and went home. The last few sketches of my sketchbook were me flipping through my photos and drawing a few favorite things I hadn't gotten to drawing yet. Thanks for traveling with me!

My adventures in Florida continue. While my husband recovers from Lyme Disease, we head on over to Universal Studios for Harry Potter time. Then we go to a skeleton museum and Ripley's Believe it or Not.

Outdoor urban sketching. Sketching to the music in the open air.

I drew a sweaty kaiju on the Bullet Journal spread that had my workouts. The subsequent creatures are based on vintage Japanese toys.

© 2018 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork was made using a black Sharpie marker, a Ranger white opaque pen, a Precise V5 Rolling Ball extra fine black pen, and a sheet of paper from a Moleskine journal. The piece was then copied in black and white using an HP copier. The artwork is inspired by “Beyond Waves & the Notion of Time,” my blog post about the importance of the journey: http://bit.ly/2Fs0au4.

I have been opening up my sketchbook, and drawing while not looking at my lines. I then color them in and add words for personal reflections.

print

on paper

on paper

Acrylic on Paper

Journal Page

Mixed Media on Paper

Pastel on brown paper bags turned into a sketchbook.

mixed media

mixed media

Journal page

graphite

mixed media

journal page

mixed media on paper

Mixed media

journal page

Journal page

Journal page

mixed media

old journal drawing