Going around in circles

Drawing mandalas has been calming lately.

Finding your way

“Map,” is a concept I’ve been playing with for years.  With so many associations — getting lost, finding home, exploring the new, setting off on adventure, and trying to figure out where the hell you are  — I think that, even in this age of GPS, there’s a map for every journey, and every part of life.

 

 

Happy Holidays

Here’s to good things in 2017…

The right tool is important…

but it’s what you do with it that counts.

For the Illustration Friday theme, “tool.”  Watercolor and ink in a Canson Montval Field Watercolor sketchbook.

With coffee and a pen…

The Illustration Friday theme is “people,”  and I’ve been trying to sketch a few whenever I go to one of the local coffee places.  (Hopefully I’m not *too* obvious about it!) These are all Vision Exact black micro point in a Strathmore toned (gray) art journal.

Bloom where you’re planted

Just  a little something from the sketchbook — and the front yard — for the Illustration Friday theme, “garden.” (Strathmore gray toned paper, Vision Exact pen, and colored pencil.)  Now, if I could just get rid of the yellow jacket nest…

 

A natural thing

Is it natural to post your Illustration Friday submission on the following Thursday…?  Ah, well, it’s been busy here, and that’s the natural truth. I’ve been working on more botanical/nature subjects, so at least I had a few things ready for this week’s theme, “Natural.”

These are studies — one watercolor, the other pen and ink — in my almost-finished Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook.