Family of the Year - Hero (Acoustic)

What am I listening to while I work (day or night)? Songs like this one. I'm a sucker for a nice melody and/or a story in the lyrics. I love all kinds of music, but when I'm being creative, I want something playing in my ear that takes me to another place. Another world. Another universe. An alternate reality to mine. Another life.

And a little acoustic guitar never hurt anyone.

Monsters and Flowers?!?

"Daisy"

Fun, quick sketch in my watercolor sketch book. Even monsters need to stop and smell the flowers. Right?

Watercolor and charcoal on watercolor paper.

Rocket Ride

Watercolor idea sketch for inclusion in a future children's book titled Rocket Ride. Friendship, boxcar racing, and adventure. I'm working on some thumbnail sketches and working out the middle bit of the story. Updates to come!

Watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.

Rok Story Design Logo illustration

Here is a possible illustration for the logo for Rok Story Design. It's based on my memories of my childhood. Kings, swords, pastures, capes, rocks, sticks = awesome!

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Golden

A sketch from my digital moleskin.
Digital ink, pencil, and watercolor in the Paper by 53 app for the iPad.

Catalog

catalog

water and stone, both shimmering in the gloaming.
fingers drumming on a desk, matches in a box, a key with no lock.

squeaky wooden floor, carved oak doors
left slightly ajar so the light trickles in, catching dust.
a burgundy rug, tattered and run through, hard rubbed in the corners,
like the one under the piano stool.

sticky black keys, repeating.

a chipped, white bucket of green beans, unstringed,
glistening with beads of water, tiny prisms in the sun.
dry pipe tobacco in the drawer of the bedside table.
our checker board missing one black.
winning. losing.

a racing bike, red and yellow and rust proof.
rubber bands, because you can never have enough.

a pocket full of sand, gritty like scraped knuckles.
two pages from an Algebra book, burned with matches.

a green row boat with bleached and crackled oars.
daisies in a Mason jar on the window sill, inchworms on the tips of my fingers,
snapdragons and honeysuckles, the smell of winter, skeleton trees bending, brown leaves
in gray-muck puddles, loose barbed wire fences and secret water falls.

running in tall, tall grass. hide and seek in the dark.

the taste of Styrofoam cups, blackberry stained fingers, briar scratches that itch.
cockleburs in the cuffs of my jeans. dogs chasing rabbits in the clouds.

cows lowing. dogs barking. babies cooing. trains moaning in the night.

Her hair in a book of mine,
caught
between the pages and the spine.

skipping stones in the last light.

All at Sea

"All at Sea"
Digital pencil, ink, and watercolor
Created in the Paper by 53 app for the iPad