pen and ink

Underwater featuring two squids

My assignment (for fun) after watching "The Art of Sketching" course by Mattias Adolfsson on Domestika.

Acrylic inks on water color paper

Overwhelmed...started as a little tiny sketchbook sketch and turned into my statement about recent events. It complements my previous post "Fevered Dreams." Bic ballpoint pen on archival 9” x 12” paper, scanned into Photoshop where the text overlay was added. Model: Jose

What do you think? Ink or graphite?

Graphite, marker, ink.

Testing out a new set of ballpoint pens with this oriole.

A sketch I did a while back for the JimBob Drawing show prompt "Zombie Rabbit" Pen and Ink sketech coloured in Photoshop https://www.instagram.com/jimbobdrawingshow/

Sunday

T Rex with ball

Ballpoint pen & ink on a 1707 Scottish legal document.

3" x 3" pen and ink drawing

Quirky Botanicals and Friends Colouring Book. My first colouring book, all hand-drawn illustrations that started off as doodles -- as a way of destressing and relaxing, taking breaks from 'real life' and work. My form of joyful creative therapy! It's available at Amazon worldwide and Barnes and Noble online.

Another drawing of Meadhbh in my sketchbook. 2023, Double Page Spread-5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.

Love of my life caught in a contemplative moment in a Midtown NYC coffee shop. Ballpoint Pen on Archival 9” x 12” paper, Adobe Photoshop.

Leonard was my first 'extra cirricular' patron in 1969. I never forget it. So I am posting him first, a recent pen and ink drawing.

A friend suggested this. I’m really glad he did.

Fool in the Rain

Pen and ink drawing of the buildings on the Graslei in Ghent (Belgium).

Fish. Trying to find a better angle to show more details.

Done on the iPad using procreate. Therapeutic meditative doodling.

Still reeling from that fire; totally unnecessary. Cover and inside illustration from my book, The Moth and the Sun.

But first coffee