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Stilleben of my Xbox 360 controller

Drawing realistic hair in a 1 minute time-lapse Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13h-psCXRQ -------------------- Filmed with GoPro Black 6 Actual drawing length: 39 minutes -------------------- Items used: 0.7 mechanical pencil Tortillon Kneaded eraser Faber Castell Perfection Eraser

really getting into sketching with value, trying to learn different ways to use value

an R containing lots of things to do with the person who it was given to

Doesn't the title explain everything. Not sure why but I was inspired to doodle recently. This was drawn very quickly. Can you tell. :)

Koi fish splashing into the water. Lino print poster, 40x50cm, ink on paper.

I'm trying some new techniques out. Not sure I like either of them, particularly, but one has to try occasionally.

Art studio moments

This started of as a simple doodle that became a bit more complicated. I used copic liner,gold ink and a bit of watercolor for shadowing.

Had a coffee break made even sweeter when this lil' cutie came by!

Finding shapes in watercolour spots in my sketchbook.

I was tired of carrying around a bunch of Microns. I want one or two refillable pens so I started with buying a new Lamy AL-Star Fountain Pen. I love it. I got the medium nib and am able to get a nice range of line width from it. This and maybe a fine nib and I'll be all set for a travel kit. This is the first page I drew with it.

Pen an ink

Camel from Potawatomi Zoo.

My sketchbook: Thoughts about the season. Apples everywhere. Birds flying south. Ink and watercolor.

Spooky sketch filled in with Golden Fluid Acrylic paint in Carbon Black. The background and other colors are watercolor.

... this watercolor was part of a project with the theme of letting go & embracing the new...you can see the completed image on my Instagram...❤

Plein-air watercolor.

"We rise by lifting others" spread in my bullet journal drawn in response to a challenge over at Instagram.

Inktober 2018 - Using the inktober prompts by furry little peach

I painted HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe in order to spook up Halloween. I'll probably do Stephen King, too, at some point, and maybe Shirley Jackson. Anyone have any other favorite horror novelists?

“Beware the wild rushes”, my mother told me. “They grow on the bank side along the salt sea!”. But I, being young, I heeded her none. (Inktober inspired by the Decemberists!!)

Illustration done with watercolors

Fun lettering piece on a logo for Pinner's conference made out of sprinkles.

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"Ups & Downs" explores the nature of basic shapes/colors and how they interact to tell a story. This piece focuses on an infinite recycled energy, meaning there is no end point to its structure. The aim was to keep it simple yet structurally complex to the eye.

Watercolor geode with gold ink