Sketch: Robot and Bird

From my sketchbook.

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Hunger

"Hunger"
Ink & Watercolor on Paper

Here is another ink and watercolor sketch from my sketchbook. I'm trying to work with a variety of tools and blends on these small sketches. This piece is 5.5 x 8 inches. I used dip pens and brushes instead of the illustration pens for this one.

Sketch: Live Oak

"Live Oak"
Ink on Paper

Here's another little sketch from the fantasy short story project. I may go back and add a little color to it or it may just be the template for a larger watercolor piece.

Pen & Ink: Cutting

"Cutting"
Pen & Ink + Watercolor

Another sketch from the sketchbook. I had a nice visit with family last weekend. In the stories told, we talked about how the land has changed over time around my Grandmother's house. We roamed the creeks and pastures (Once a dirt car track! What?!?) and woods around her house when we were children. Now the creek is overgrown and a new forest covers part of the land. I literally can't see the place where we spent our spring and summer days.

But is that more lonely and shocking than a forest clear cut from memory? Either way, it feels like a displacement of the self. Even if that self was seven years old a long time ago.

Pen and Ink: Sitting Bull

From my sketchbook. An attempt at a pen and ink + watercolor sketch of Sitting Bull taken from the iconic photograph. Trial and error on this one, but it was fun to give it a try.