water

A few of my favorite pages from my sketchbook documenting my trip to China in the summer of 2017. An amazing and life changing experience.

Watercolour portrait

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First piece of art for 2025. Still working on botanical watercolors. Im in love with the background tho.

4 simple botanicals in digital watercolor. I use Rebelle 7

Wee watercolour sketch of Donkey Orchids from the forest near Greenbushes.

I've been going through a kick lately and "finding" art in watercolor blobs.

I told my boys, "That's you, you and you." They paused for a moment, pointed at the hot dog, and asked, "Well... Who's that?" ... "That's your baby sister." -- Ink and watercolor on 5x5 Arches cold press.

Watercolor & ink sketch.

Little monster takes a ride with some sentient flowers.

Trying out some new paper and colored pencils.

Noodlers 41 Brown ink and Holbein watercolor, 4"x6". Drawn with a Pilot Custom 823 FA

I made this litthe card for my aunt and uncle.

Practicing layers and dogs

Still working on updating my cat style. I liked how this guy's fur turned out. I find the sketching part the hardest, it seems so easy to mess up the cat at that part.

Home Is Where The Hurt Is. Gouache on Arches watercolor paper. A painting for all those who came up with crappy home lives.

Three kings stopped a walking man to ask advice about their dreams. But the man said, "Oh no please, I don't want to hear these things." "I have dreams of my own although they'll never come to pass... I just work my life away while all you rich guys sit and laugh."

Little pause in my travelbook, for little watercolors mixed with ink pen on parisian landscapes

Mixed Media, 8.25x11.75 Moleskine Watercolor Notebook sketchbook

Watercolor

Inspired by Van Gogh's "Starry Night"