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Bad Cat gets the woven blanket treatment. circa 2019

I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)

"Horserider." Because that's what horses look like to me. Ink and watercolor on 5x5 Arches cold press.

Ink & watercolor on 5x5 Arches cold press.

Drawings I made for a commission of the five stages of the Walking Wall installation by Andy Goldsworthy at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. What an inspiring journey to walk and watch it move.

These were old sheets of practice alcohol ink on yupo.

old one from a few years ago.

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

The bold white initial letter is sitting on a blue pen and ink hand drawn illustration with a watercolour background.

(Gel fineliner on a 139mm x 87mm postcard) It's what happens when a soldier in The Imperial Dwarf Legion turns up late for muster.

Watercolor on Cold Press, Wednesday Adams with her arms crossed. For hire. Visit my portfolio at www.michaeljamesfa.com/portfolio

Painted with Golden Fluid Acrylics in Fluorescent Blue and Fl. Chautreuse, outlined in blue brush pen

Elias Rosenshaw 7/10/2022 Filtered photography

SteveO with his arms up. An old ballpoint pen sketch from several years ago. Red Bic pen layer converted to black and white.

An old portrait of an od man. (Water-colours. Crayons. Pencil. 2012)

My Apple ii. Unless you've had one, you won't really understand. Even has a whole 64KB with the language card. TG Products joystick with a ribbon cable connector. No cassettes, it's 5.25" floppies! Amdek color monitor. This ended up looking like an advertisement from an old computer magazine.

First attempt at the prompts

This is an ATC-sized (3 1/2” x 2 1/2”) watercolor. I’m practicing bolder strokes with heavier pigment. Big departure from my usual uber careful strokes

I have avoided social media for a couple of months now as it was making me unproductive, unmotivated and all-round less creative. I miss the community of creative social media so I have made this account to post my art anonymously: good or bad; finished or not; unedited and unfiltered. I hold back a lot when making art and even more so when publishing it. This is an opportunity to change that. This is a quick self-portrait just to force myself into creating anything today.

super old doodle, colored for fun!

Acrylic painting, "18x24". Inspired by old windows in Croatia. "There's a whole world out there, right outside your window." -Charlotte Eriksson

Swirls and Triangles. Hard to capture that metallic gold ink.

"Beauty of Hope" as one of the original painting I donated to charity and it was auction in exhibit. It was one of my favorite painting so far. I used koi watercolor and a fabriano 200 gsm paper. Most of the color I used are blue, green, light green and yellow and a bit of orange. The metallic gold paint was one of the color that added flavor to the painting.