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Something, something, Green Man vibes…

Kingart mixed media gel sticks

Kingart mixed media gel sticks

The one where a shark muses on the people he thought were good that he’d encountered throughout the years…

This week’s narwhal and cat collage I’ve been procrastinating over like mad, wouldn’t be like me…

Sharks and undead cats unite :-)

These stickers and this washi tape… what more can I say?

Putting stickers from the art market I went to last week into good use at last! :-)

Alien foundlings!

Frank Zappa’s wit = always an inspiration!

The stickers I accquired at the last art market I visited, as you can see, have gotten my creative mojo spiked up :-)

This time last year I was in the midst of starting off my (then) new sketchbook... And what do I find myself doing tonight? Sticking to the same script with yet another one, that’s what!

Getting creative with stickers here…

Second time around with the new flower washi tape my girlfriend bought me. Couldn’t not use it again!

My friend gave me the last two images. They are stickers she made.

This shambling creature haunts the fetid marshlands and is a protector of the birds and beasts who reside there. He's ancient, the last of his kind and a gentle soul who would much rather hide under the sticky mud than come face to face with a stranger.

This is how I eat sushi

I had the best time drawing these and actually made them into stickers. I should draw birds more.

Scribbling with my eyes closed.. and then creating an image out of the scribbles.

BIC ballpoint stick pen drawing on Richeson bulk drawing paper. This started as a contour drawing and just got squiggly (not the original intent). This was clipped to my board for weeks and I would add a few squiggles from time to time when I wanted to make marks, but didn't have inspiration. It's just a bit under 15 inches (12x18 inch paper) and is probably about 25 hours of making little lines and squiggles. The reference was a Dreamstime royalty-free photo.

This a ball-point pen drawing done with a black BIC-Stick pen. Based on a Pixel photo reference of a Harpy Eagle.

It's never been my practice to stick pins into insects and collect them that way, but drawing them is quite appealing. These are created with Prismacolor pencils and a Micron pen.

A colored pencil sketch filled in with Copic marker. I ended up scanning the sketch and turning it into a sticker.

Sticky note musings on Hiatus Kaiyote and Snail Mail

This happy pup is made with collage materials, pencils, watercolor and water-soluble pastel sticks on a cardboard twelve-pack container.

I see you~ Time-lapse, https://www.instagram.com/p/CCc4tKbnc4w/ Black Eyed Children are fascinating but I hope I never meet one :,) They're thought to be aliens disguised as human kids. Their eyes have no white in them, only black. Similar to vampires, they need permission to come into your home. There's no color I hate working with but it's very difficult for me stick to a limited palette. Working with markers was very much out of my comfort zone! I hope to work with them more.

Working on some sticker designs for a coffee shop show I'm setting up for.

Patternz - Series 3. In this series I'm still sticking with the Patterned backgrounds, but this time they have been carefully chosen to compliment the chosen animal subject, rather than the human portraits of series 1 & 2.

Street Style Helsinki. Living in the Nordic levels, like Finland, requires special attitude against cold winter weather. From a distance the sight felt like a giant rectangle on two thin sticks approaching scurry towards me.

I made myself some motivational stickers to (hopefully) help with the CONSTANT negative self-talk that seems to be an innate part of my creative practice