Live, Draw, Paint

Here's a bit of sweetness.   One of my illustrations from a children's book I'm working on... Every Day Is Mother's...

Songwriter I painted this in purple, silver, and graphite, but I think I liked this bleached out shot even better.

Sunday morning. Here's my Basset Hound, Molly, having an inspirational read  à  la  Charles Bukowski along with a Ed Brownlee cup of ...

Although is was snowing last week, on Thanksgiving it was 60 degrees and a little rainy.  After our wonderful meal, I managed to get these s...

As we drove 1 1/2 hours to our family's Thanksgiving dinner, nature gave us the most beautiful sight: the rolling, beautifully complex f...

Red Thinker Drawing this random man (NOT CHRIS CORNELL!)... Pastel ...while listening to this (below) over and over again.  T...

An early morning walk proved sparkling and magical after our first Midwestern snow fall.  It may be still be autumn, but it looks like the d...

Although I painted it yesterday afternoon, here's a little breakfast for you.   Oil on Cardboard

Here's a late Friday night decompression painting.  After I took the photo I added some shimmery sparkle into that heavy black area on t...

I tried a Gingerbread Tea Latte today and Starbuckaroos.  I also did a little pen sketch with whiteout added on the cup.  Here's that on...

This one is fairly large and loosely painted with acrylic paint, ink, and a long-handled brush. I only have a smaller section of it displa...

This drawing was a quick sketch I did before I went to bed last night.  Often I feel like I just have to draw something--anything--before I ...

Here's one angle of my "Little Free Library" that I'm painting for a local library.  (I had to submit a proposal of what I...

Back on January 9th, after the attacks at Charlie Hebdo and atrocities in Africa, I had posted what you see below.  And now, after attacks a...

Carla felt out of place at the party, so when a cute guy offered her a few swigs of a hip, imported European beer, she eagerly took a few, h...

I can hear Jim Morrison singing, "Break on through to the other side..."  Lord help me, I'm trying. And then it's too...

I had an art show today, and can I be honest?  I wasn't looking forward to it.  I knew it wasn't the right venue for me.  It was mor...

Dark Suit, Pastel World

Pierre was feeling particularly in love with life and so found himself blowing kisses to all.

As I mentioned in my bite out of the big apple post a few days ago, my friend, John Kettman, has had a brush with fame this past October.  ...

Betty's ire began to spark only after she lost the Halloween contest for a costume that was deemed too realistically frightening.  She f...

Creature Feature Halloween is inching nearer...watch out!

Here's a little apple doodle I did today...always trying to draw, you know? It really is a drawing of the apple I was eating, but also...

I had a lot of fun with this black-tie monster bash in honor of the following:   I'm having an art show this Thursday, 10/29 wi...

I had the urge to draw a little something before I went to bed Sunday.  I think it was my way of not letting the weekend go quite yet.  Of c...