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This is a black-and-white revision of an illustration I made (hand-drawn) for an American Red Cross e-newsletter years ago. The original was in color; however, considering my current work is predominantly black and white, I thought it appropriate to update the illustration for my portfolio. © 2007-2018 Joe Blend. All rights reserved.

This is a simple portrail of a common person, not the appearance of a person, the Innerworkings of a person. Their dark side. We all have a dark side.. Some are just more controlled by it than others.

Happy day!

This is the backside of the dragon envelope.

Over the course of a few months, I got to work with Good Karma For All on what you might consider a "passion project". The job consisted of freehand painting murals on every single (large) wall and hand-lettering inspirational quotes all over the inside and outside of the building.

This is a portrait of the President of France selling macarons.

A drawing of Donald Trump (president of America) done in one cartoon. I drew him as a pig, but am not trying to be too biased. Hope you guys like it!

They lurk inside our houses or our minds.

Watercolor Demogorgon eating upside down pineapple cake.

Snowth, inside and out

Down By The Seaside #boat #sea

"What's inside my head"

Sketchbook. Coffee and Ink. Inside sink of the Universe. 2017 @ Ania Pawlik 2017 FB: https://www.facebook.com/ANIA.PAWLIK.Fine.Art.Illustration/

Take A Step Outside Yourself - Pens on vintage photo.

This is another improvised painting - in oils this time, but poured on after diluting with white spirit and then tidied up with a paint brush chasing the forms that appeared. You need to outside to do one like this. Very fast to make, but they stink like

Old (sideways?) sketch

The cover is just as important as what's inside. Spent 40 minutes doing this cover. It's always the best part of a new sketchbook!

180° view of the inside of my houseboat

In one of the sessions in HOW TO DRAW WITHOUT TALENT Danny Gregory asks us to draw a Memory Bike. I did as asked, and then I went online to find out how a bike actually is constructed. In my search I suddenly found myself on a page that besides nice photo

'Outside the curtain'

I was asked by a kid recently what 'thinking outside the box' means. The only way I could answer was with a watercolor doodle.

Hit the coffee shop last night for our fast sketch class. Quick sketches and demos of various customers. #backtothegrind #coffee #coffeeshop #riverside #downtownriverside #ucr #ucrextension #ucriverside #cafesketching #sketches #sketch #sketchbook #charac

Meet the characters who live in my head! Meet all the characters who live inside my head......it can be crazy, overwhelming, paralyzing, energetic,stressful, anxious, energetic place to reside at times...