frogs and people and cats

Drawn with ink, painted with coffee.

whoosh!

Another windy day at the beach.

half-a-Chinese firedrill

Having fun in the pouring rain while waiting for the light in the early morning of Christmas in Buzzards Bay on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.  Both refused to budge from their seating, so there the pair sat in the car in the pouring rain while watching the light turn from red to green and back to red again.

Happy Holidays

where ever you may be.

Some years back I made a quick sketch while visiting Kona, Hawaii.  Every once in a while when I come across this sketch, I scan, reprint and add more to it.  Essentially, it is decaying with each generation of print, but at the same time, vibrance is added with each new layer.  This is probably the fifth generation of the original sketch.

Printed paper and color pencil.

bubble and squeek

Art with sound.

Watercolor, color pencil, ink.  5x7"

sunrise on Socotra, Yemen

I happened upon this wonderful world from an inadvertent image search through google.com.  It looks like an amazing place to be.

Go to this link to see photos of this wild and wonderful land.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

peenut

Drawn while on hold waiting for "the next available customer service representative".

mini art

When I paint, there is always a scrap of the same material that I use for testing colors and techniques.  Many times these scraps eventually become art themselves.  It's like a casserole,  mixings of this and that, which inevitably becomes art unto itself.

Watercolor, color pencil and ink.
Two and a quarter by three and a quarter inches.

Liquid.  One of my two favorite words.

3.5x5.5"

gridded liquid

Acrylic/watercolor mix and ink.  8x10"

windswept city

The strong, variable winds blow constantly, so the skins of the buildings are built of corrugated, hot-pressed banana leaves.  The buildings can sway and stretch with the winds.  No petroleum products needed.

thought processing arena

This morning I came across this sketch that I started about a year ago.  Today it's finished it.

Ball point pen on copy paper.  7.5x7"

tooth and nail

This here is genuine, authenticated migraine therapy art.  I have had them for years but always opt to spend the hours doing what I call 'comfort art'.  No head under a pillow one hibernating in bed  Just natural light and a very quiet space with paper and pen.  Since I've been working on this style of art the past few days, maybe it's a premonition of a migraine to come.  If it wasn't so much challenging fun and soothing comfort for the brain, the headaches would be the terrible awfulness that migraine people all know all so well.

Ink on bristol board.  8x10"