mixed media

Red roses drawn in my sketch book with ink and watercolors. Design available as stickers, prints, clothing and homewares.

Just Hanging about in Trees and Stuff

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).

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

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

Whale sharks and whale unicorns!

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

Perched between silence and song, the blue jay waits—half mischief, half mystery.

Charcoal on mixed media paper

Where did September go?

Before autumn cools things down a bit, something tropical looking to share…

As it says, with narwhals.

Hungry for Japanese cuisine and literature, are we?

And so September and Autumn begins…

Narwhal flavours, washi tape as always and a cheeky Cymera sticker to start my current sketchbook… this one entitled “All Fishes Are Weird”. One way to kill time during delays getting back home on the train back from London yesterday!

Mushrooms, moons and squids… also known as, the usual suspects.

…or rainbows!

Guinea pig obsession