The birth of a thought.

This is an older digital work I did back around 2017 or so. I always liked this one and the simple loose style. Actually, this may even be a bit older now that I think about it, It was done on my old first generation iPad with some free paint software I downloaded. Pulled it back up on the computer today and added a little digital noise to break up the flatness. Love the thick round loose black line work.

Mood??

Mood? I don't know what to call this? Also I'm learning and thinking more about how naming a piece of art can and may influence an audience to preconceive a feeling or thought as to what the message or meaning of the art is? I like the idea of the viewer forming their own option as to what they feel the art is saying. I had a friend look at it online and he said, "Hot and Cold". Not at all what I was thinking, but I'll buy that!

Strange times

A digital Ipad sketch from around 2020-2021. The iPad I had even at that time was ancient. The stylus for it was the old rubber ball type tip, but it forced you to work in a simpler style with less detail unless you really wanted to work at it. I like how an artist's style can change depending on their medium. I just added the textured background to it in Photoshop before this upload.

Posting this old one again...

An oldie but a goodie. Need to do some new stuff.

Stop reading this... This is just a sketch from the other day.

King Sushi

 Something new...

Thinking of you...

Life should move slow sometimes

Something simple... a quick sketch brought into Illustrator.
Let your life move slow sometimes and enjoy!

Blue

What to do, What to do, What to do...

Another little digital experiment with styles. Need to mess around more with watercolors both traditionally and the style digitally. I tend to use a lot of flat bright colors but i do love the softness and sometimes the spontaneous with watercolors.

All we have is now

Made this one from an old photo of a Post-It note sketch I did a few years back. Photoshop.

The Post-It note sketch, happy little skull in cowboy boots...

Strange times

We are living in some very surreal strange times right now with the Coronavirus, stay at home orders, wearing masks and gloves, cleaning everything off all the time, the government giving us back money; it starts to become overwhelming. The weird thing is that it has been going on now for so long that these little rituals are starting to become the daily norm.

I think we are all going to see at some point this was all about so much more than a virus...

Until then, enjoy a sausage at the beach!

Dream

With all that is going on right now, it's still ok to dream!

12" x 12" Acrylic, ink, and watercolor on cardboard.

Sketch Dump

A couple of recent sketches that I did on my phone...Samsung Galaxy 5 note with built in stylus and S note app. kinda cool to mess around with. My style changes a bit depending on which medium i'm using, so I always like to play with different things.

Thinking of spring

Spring so far here in Michigan has been really crazy, tee shirt weather one day, snowing the next.
Looking forward to a normal springtime warm up with tree leaves and flowers budding!

5" x 7" ink, watercolor, pen, onion skin on cold press illustration board.

Soda pop

A play and study on breaking up space and dimension. I like to play with the idea that you cannot just glance at the piece, you must move around it and study each little area before pulling back and forming a judgement of what you think it's about.

If it's even about anything...

Color Eater

The flowers are in pain...

Digital paint over a found clipart pattern from the web. Experimenting with the same color palette over itself and framed with the black.

Live again

Dream