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The influence of the moon, drawn and painted with gouache and digitally retouched

Inspired by nature. Background layer of the pages are covered by Greenpeace's newsletter papers and used mixed technique with acrylic, ecoline and markers.

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku. The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

This panda wants to go fishing. 5"x7" ink and watercolor on Strathmore mixed media paper.

Sketchbook. Coffee and Ink. 2017 Ink, coffee and cuts out.

Sketch of the Albinyana pharmacy (Raval de Montserrat, Terrassa, Barcelona).

Flavian Amphitheater Unipin on watercolor paper A mix of beauty and madness

One of the Big Five: Buffalo. Pen and ink and mixed media on old map

Dinosaur and dragon flavoured sticker collage? Heck yeah!

Something of a space case myself…

Let’s get this week started, shall we?

Catch-up time again?

When you’re out doing your weekly shop and find not lucky pennies, but lucky stickers! As a friend of mine’s said just recently, the universe thinks I deserve some :-)

Weekend works, no. 2!

Return of the seahorse and friends!

New sketchbook time and opening with something different! Don’t worry, sea creatures and surprises will follow shortly ;-)

Knew I still had some stickers kicking around to use… even better when they’re trans inclusive Labubu ones!

Sticker collage no. 3! This time with Washi tape :-)

These stickers I got over the weekend are slaying!

Something of a mock paella going on here, I’d say!

Whale sharks and whale unicorns!

AI-edited photograph of a bridge.

Under the sea we go…

Underwater science at play here…

Shark time again? Indeed!

Butterflies, this-that and the next thing!

Charcoal on mixed media paper

Charcoal on mixed media paper

Charcoal, crayon, and acrylic ink on mixed media paper