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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr. #Just_a_try_at_softpastels

I started a new youtube series called Paint With Frenemy. Channeling Bob Ross in short painting videos. Check it out if you like and please like an subscribe! I'lll be posting new videos every Sunday 9am eastern time. This week video I paint a happy little taco with some stop motion animation mixed into the painting process. Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfj3xBju_c

This guy was my first ever exploration with Inktense. He came out looking more neon than regal, hence the title.

Acrylic on canvas

Acrylic on cabinet door

Essential quarantine creative goings-on.

Dark Side of Spring. Lots of murder going on in springtime, it's not just flowers.

I draw as discreetly as i can interesting faces in buses, cafes, parks. in general I get away with it, but sometimes fellow passengers, or patrons notice my moral trespassings, with a wink.

Acrylic on canvas

Pen and Ink line drawing of an area in the village of Settle in Yorkshire UK. This was a commission for a greetings card for Settle Stories.

Stories about how the coronavirus is affecting the world.

Acrylic on paper format A3

This was inspired by the artwork of AnneliesDraws. She has an amazing skills with gouache and colored pencils. I don't have gouache paints and so I tried making an illustration using my watercolor paints. I tried increasing the opacity of the watercolor to almost the same as of the gouache paints. By the way, this is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anneliesdraws

An Inktense rendering of my eclectus parrot Numbo with his signature 'What?' look.

yes I'm paying attention to the meeting

The pencil clean up process of a rough sketch of a drawing depicting a cartoon character of a mouse.

Acrylic on wood

The lovely Calibano, a blind old boy who lives in Gatti di Roma cat Sanctuary. This picture was auctioned and the proceeds went to the charity.

Mixed media on aquarelle paper, 33 x 22 cm

First foray into using tinted charcoal pencils

From his earlier days.

Acrylic on canvas

Moleskine

I was hungry

Portrait