monkey

Man, I’ve been random lately. I think my mind’s eye sees stuff that normal people don’t. That might make me abnormal. I’m kinda comfortable with that. Guess who’s going to be watching some Clint Eastwood tonight?

Rage in the cage

So cute. I did this for a whimsical winter painting challenge at Escapemotion/Rebelle

Label design I did for Snitz Creek Brewing and Abomination Brewing Co.

I really liked the style that I used for one of the most recent labels I did for @abominationbrewingco and @snitzcreekbrewery so I decided to mess with it a bit more. Just a quick thing. I want to draw more animals in this style. This is for me, and my wife, and my daughter. Stay strong. This is for everyone. This is for you. Stay strong. No matter what you do on a day to day basis or what you go through. You are a strong person.

I often have weird dreams that inspire my artwork, and that one I had last night where I took over a jungle (or was it a forest? I don’t know) sure got me inspired.

Flying Monkey

Rediscovered the German language versions of Peter Gabriel’s third and fourth albums (terrific btw) and come ‘Schock den Affen’ was intrigued at how the German word for ‘monkey’ sounds a hell of a lot like orphan… of course that might just be my ears, you know?

For robbing hoods?

I stated with a rough pencil sketch then inked it with a brush pen and colored it with watercolor and gouache on a watercolor postcard. Reference I used was this excellent photo - https://www.pexels.com/photo/tree-wild-squirrel-monkey-97827/ photo by Mike from Pexels.com

When goldilocks visits.

Unfortunately, I broke up and separated with my girlfriend prior to Christmas. If there is an upside, it is that moving by myself has led me going through old work I’d packed up in various boxes - not opened for years. This is just an abstract biro doodle (+ markers for colour) I doodled, while working in a stupid telephone interview job in my early 20s.

My next monkey watercolor -well, mostly - there is a touch of acrylic paint on the eyes. I do not know why they are called red-handed - since they seem to have yellow hands.

Mixed media on paper.

Pen and ink and Procreate for color

Monkey that I decided to add some color

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Ej4ncBziF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I saw this in a book called signs and symbols and thought it would be fun to draw

I am trying to work on a more loose style. Again, this was made in Corel Painter.

I used brush pen and watercolors. The most challenging part was holding back on excessive pen lines to render the fur, using patches of paint instead. Although I think the background is a bit dark and there a few mistakes, I feel that learned from this.

doodle monkey

Beginning. To understand what happened you should know two things. One. Marmoset monkeys love books. All sorts of books, but diaries and biographies are their favourites. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPrF1gFhEWI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Made with Corel Painter. I'm trying out a more loose, imaginative style.

Some of my first drawings in a very long time. The photo isn't very good, but I don't have the originals anymore.