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Whalesongs to round the week off (as usual).

Just messing around with charcoal and graphite.

Dip pen practice with puppies. I moved the puppies around a little in procreate. I tried coloring one with water color (the pink one) and it smeared. So I colored a few with Procreate.

Cryptically does it... A narwhal swims around who-knows-what-it-all-means.

More practice drawing shapes from some still life blocks.

Driven by my mishearing of something Dr. David Scheel was talking about regarding the octopus Heidi he kept in his home for a yearlong period... His documentary ‘Octopus: Making Contact’ is a lovely thing worth watching I should add!

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

harlequin pattern with impressions from a trip to the desert

Illustration using watercolour and pencils

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

Current events mean retreating into my sketchbook is the way of things today, until it blows over(ish, emphasis on the -ish).

Decided to do something colorful to refresh my mind a bit.

Texture experimentation.

Thanks to all the hard working moms on this Easter, like this hard working Easter bird with it's giant baby.

Done with Procreate, a joyful pink Easter bunny, especially for children and all children at heart.

Inspired by Stephen Gammell and Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark. 1. Graphite Powder 2. Charcoal 3. Charcoal Powder 4. Kneaded Eraser 5. Electric Eraser

Narwhals it seems, and I’m sure I’ve said this before, are a perfect remedy for art blocks I'd say. Wasn’t going anywhere last night, that is until I gave things another go and this fellow here saved the day!

First time using digital watercolor. I was BEEing curious

Sometimes I come home and I have to express myself, for better or worse. I am an outsider both in art and in my personal life. Nature of my illness.

Improvising a thing or two centred around krakens and all things cephalopod flavoured :)

This is another Stephen Gammell inspired drawing. Done with graphite, charcoal, kneeded eraser and whiteout. It ain't perfect but we gettin there!

The double neck oughta be hint enough...

I tried to use my imagination for this, but I had to fall back on photo reference, to finish it. THe problem with the composition is I did not use a background colour. I did this about 3 years ago. Their are mountains in the background.

Whenever I think of tags and/or labels for people, be it things like ‘gammons’ or ‘snowflakes’ et al, narrowing it down to a single person who represents that group is always running a fool’s errand in my opinion.

Spring is here, frog on a mushroom