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I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to paint a design on a rather large gorilla! I am so excited to do this. It's taking an age but getting there slowly. When he's all done he will be going on show at Paignton Zoo.

Not quite what you think you see, look closer, creating that perfect moment at the end of the day

Here is a character I have been thinking about off and on. She is a seagull who loves the beach and everything to do with it. Especially jellyfish.

New drawing drawn with my Sailor Fresca Tangerine 1911s F fountain pen. Ink = Noodlers Black American Eel. Color coming next.

There's a phone in Graham's Up the Tree and kids will have no clue what they're looking at or how those "buttons" work.

Spent a day stuck in the Chicago airport. I drew a LOT of puppies!

Rabid Dog for K2 Snowboarding- found on the 2016 Happy Hour

Another face under construction. Spray paint, ink, acrylic paint, marker on wood panel. 46"x36"

The bold white initial letter is sitting on a blue pen and ink hand drawn illustration with a watercolour background.

Gouache and watercolor on Arches watercolor paper.

Oil pastels on board. I used terpenoid to blend the pastels like paint on the canvas. From my latest art class.

I never understood the power of dots and lines until I did this art! A simple change in the line from straight to curved shows projection of a hand. What a beauty!

For this piece I used acrylic paints and acrylic markers. My inspiration was my love of tattoo flash and traditional/neo-traditional tattoo designs. I grew up flipping through pages of tattoo flash catalogues and the art inside was a huge influence in my own art. Some of these pieces are my versions of popular designs and some are originals.

Forsythia is in full bloom, and the cherries, magnolia, and dogwoods are next. Spring is here!

Vine Charcoal and Oil Pastel make for a messy, smudgy experience. A certain amount of messiness can make a process feel more real and human. When things aren’t perfectly polished, it reflects a genuine effort, imperfections, and growth. In personal life, letting go of the need for everything to be tidy can promote a more authentic existence. The hat is a Stormy Chromer. It also evolved out of a mess. More on that later. Peace.

Teaching painting is a great task to ask of a person who doesn't paint. I do not paint. I teach the manipulation of media through experience. "Learn from doing!" I say. Monochromatic pastel exercises help my students to get a handle on the media. We explore value and composition and the handling of media. Sometimes happy accidents occur. This was my example to the teens on composition and value. It is a journey.

I took a course on imprimatur/underpainting and enjoyed the effect. I'm just working on adapting traditional skills to digital skills in Reblle.

I love creating work that starts from a point in nature and develops into something more abstract, something that can be interpreted in many different ways. It’s interesting to hear what people see, what connection to their own life they bring when viewing a work.

Peony flowers from my garden earlier this year. Bartzella Itoh peony. A bit heavy-handed in my opinion, but I still like the outcome.

This one is from a photo.

For Valentine's Day, I wanted to paint my husband and me. I think it turned out great. We'll print it and put it up somewhere in the house.

The rhododendron in my yard is blooming and my daughter and I love to stare out the window to watch our cats, Squanchy and Beemo, hunt and play in the yard.

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

Welcome to mars from the welcoming committee.

Kitty Birdy Zen Trip - my daughter is always asking me to draw a kitty and a birdy, so I decided to combine them for this meditative art exercise.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons. -RuPaul.

First in the serie from the Hailuoto , island near Oulu

Inked with deAtramentis Document Ink Black. Colored with Holbein & Daniel Smith watercolor on Arches watercolor paper.

This feels like it could be a fun kids activity page. When I started this doodle it was just the hill with the tunnel maze and a few things added in the maze area. It didn’t feel like it was going anywhere, but as I kept adding things I started to get into it and now I’m happy that I didn’t ditch it. It’s always fun when a piece surprises me. It never gets old.