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Five 40 foot + trees went down around my house back in October 2012. Since 1994 I have lost as many trees on my property as there had been present when I bought the house. Sheesh.

This alien decided to avoid humans on its trip to earth.

Acrylic on metal (newspaper street box)

Strange Creature has a Flower for you. Do you take it?

It didn't turn out looking as much like a coyote as I had hoped...

Colored pencil on toned paper

Charcoal on mixed media paper

Charcoal on mixed media paper

Birds perch on their octopus friend’s limbs.

This cool frog monster is a master inventor. Here he is riding through town on his homemade motorcycle.

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook papet

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

I was testing a Rotring Rapid Pro 2mm and this came out. Inked with a burgundy Custom 743 EF, an underrated workhorse of a pen.

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Working on whales and I decided to color one. I'll add color to the others this evening.

I'm not sure how this happened, And neither is this peep: A beach vacation for his wife That he bought on the cheap. He wanted to surprise her, So this is what he got. Turns out his wife prefers a beach With water over not.

arranging some drawings of food

Digital is great -- for composition and color. But for line art? I don't think I can ever give up the fountain pen. This was drawn with a Sailor King of Pen (M) and Sailor 1911L (EF) fountain pens using Pilot Black ink. Yes, sacrilege. Pilot ink in a Sailor. But I have some Kiwa Guro arriving soon!

Micron pen and colored pencil on paper

Micron pen and colored pencil on paper

I've been separating out some floral arrangements and experimenting with colors.

playing around with some markers.

My first submission to inktober 2018 on day 5. I'm not sure if I will make up days 1-4. It all depends on a wonderful thing called time. Arrrrgh!

Just about there with this one. Not sure if it works as I wanted it to!