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A quick sketch of a man holding a cup of coffee. This was drawn from a reference photo. Lately I've been practicing portraits. Trying to limit myself to 20 mins or so and just draw the basic form as best I can. Otherwise I'll fiddle with the details and spend hours trying to adjust things. Sketching in ink helps also since I can't erase. Need to get more comfortable sketching faster, but I like the way this turned out.

Gold fish practice

This is from one of my older sketchbooks. I used salt on the red watercolor paint while it was still wet to get the textured background effect.

Portrait of an old fisherman sketched with ink and coffee wash. Trying to experiment with some different styles and techniques.

Ink and water color on a3 paper. SOLD.

Ink and watercolor sketch of pirate.

Time to retire it, it has been a good one.

Commision work. An oldie, but i still like it. Fineliner on paper 60x40 cm

Another old house, but this time experimenting with an unexpected palette

I love drawing old houses, another monochromatic study in ink and gouache.

Quick Pencil Sketch

Made from tracing the shadow of my hand holding my pencil. An for some reason Pearl Jam started playing in my head.

These patterns are all made from drawings pulled from my 2017 sketchbook project. I studied fiber arts in grad school and learned how to do repeat patterns - the old fashioned way by cutting and taping paper together... I haven't done any in 25 years - until this month!

Golden eyes drawing. Drawing painted in inks ,watercolor, colored pencils and digitally enhanced.

Random sketch.

Another street sketch. This one is of Old Street, London.

A long story, as yet untold

It's easy to forget that cats are actually little ghouls...they want to hunt and kill stuff almost as much as they want to cuddle up with you when it's cold (yes, they are also heat vampires). But they are also complex and amazing little fur-suited people.

A colorful doodle study of my urban backyard. Homage to a 20+ year old delicious apple tree that is no longer part of the view. Artwork done in Procreate.

Do you remember? Using a pencil to get back to the first track?

He is on the street walking... What is his name? I don't know. He is holding flowers and a black umbrella. Where is he going? I'm not quite sure. Maybe to somebody or maybe to somewhere. Made with Oil Pastels

Collage excerpt from a school project.

Brrr! It's so cold outside ! ❄️✨

There was a royal lineage in Europe that was so inbred that their jaws started getting really distended and weird. Like Jay Leno, but inbred. (I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.) Feel free to look up the Hapsburgs. I'll wait. The second picture is a Fiji mermaid and a merman. I think I want a merman tattoo. SMOLDER.

I saw a man outside the library wearing a crown nestled into his cowboy hat. He was speaking swiftly, seemingly to himself, possibly freestyle rapping. Probably crazy. Then I drew some saints and stuff around him. I suspect he could use some assistance, perhaps spiritual.

Found this guy in an old pocket sketchbook

Sharpie is what I do best :)

I saw on the Samantha Bee show that there's an association between vintage cartoons and minstrelsy, and I can't stop thinking about it now. So I drew some mean looking white person mice in retaliation. These are your suburb mice that are complaining that the Whole Foods line is taking too long.

This is a new series of contemporary paper collages realised using a mix and match of new and vintage paper. I used: • Vintage paper ephemera (old postcards, paper cuts, portraits) • Recycled paper from envelopes • Brand new paper cuts • For the decorations I mostly used marker pens, stickers and washi tape.

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