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Playing with colored inks at fountain pen

Inspired by the Mervyn Peake Novels.

Micron pen and colored pencil on paper

Post-it note art, a great way to practice oil pastels and colored pencil :)

Poured Acrylic on Canvas

A nautically colored doodle, drawn traditionally and colored digitally. Ahoy!

Another one for #transmundanetuesdays, with prompts by Carson Ellis (an older one tho), this is my #glovedandspikeybricklayer! He looks evil but he's just allergic to non-spikey things.

Poppies are among my favorite flowers---vibrant AND delicate. Great swaths of "bread poppies" garnish our garden. We harvest seeds for lemon-seed cake and poppy-seed rolls. (No, we don't harvest that other stuff.) They reseed generously and we have beautiful crops of red and purple flowers each year. I've been working on this colored pencil drawing for the past week. Enclosed are some images of the progress over that time.

Made this back in 1998 inspired after reading Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. Pen and Ink on acid free paper. Pointillism.

pencil colored illustration

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Colored pencil on toned paper

Digital doodle in honor of the Halloween season almost being upon us! OK, so I'm a little early. I know I'm not the only one!

Inspired by lamb of gods - nightmare seeker, slipknots - virus of life and my own random thoughts as the songs progress.

Micron pen and colored pencil on paper

Gouache

Ink and colored pencil

The Whooping Crane is an endangered species due to human activity. It is the tallest bird in North America.

Pencil/Colored Pencils

Rediscovering my love for charcoal by drawing on the cover of my new Midori Traveler's notebook refill

Bless our lungs/ colourful doodle lungs

Drawn with a red gel pen

This mysterious lady is investigating her hair files.

Pen and colored pencil. Used one of those blending markers on right page background

Upset Ghost. Block print drawing with coffee, watercolor, and ink.

Weird shapey lady that wants to plant a forest.

Practicing textured backgrounds on wood. Mixed media is MUCH harder than watercolor.

Copperhead drawing inspired by the year 1861. That year my home state of Kansas was born and the country was split in 2 by the Civil War.

What really matters to you? Nurture it wisely.