Fern on the Mind

My watercolor and ink for the rainy weekend

Belated Valentine's Day

I had done this design on Valentine's Day but had lost it in between switching computers.  Finally found it again, enjoy!

Contrast of States

I decided to try playing with photos I have taken and add other elements.  I realized that after doing so much line work my painting skills are a little lacking. 

I knew I would need to practice more to make higher quality illustrations so this was a good starting point.  As a side note, kayakers going off high waterfalls will throw their paddles so as not to painfully land on them.

Branding Through Disorders

This is completely not a PC topic but I started wondering about the idea of what brands would look like through various psychiatric physical disorders.  It specifically it began as colorblindness and the challenge of that but then I came up with this.

 Tide as presented through kleptomania...

Watercolors I have been doing in Belize

Down into the Darkness

Since I was a kid I have loved Tall Ships, i.e. the square-sailed monsters that plied the ocean for so long.  It is not hard for me to know the sail plan, or the structure or shape of these ships so when presented with an ideal day to paint and draw I drew this.

The Colossal Squid was long unobserved and until recently no one really had a good specimen when in 2007 a fisherman pulled in a 33 foot long one weighing 990 lbs.  Recent video of a Giant Squid showed one 40 feet in length.

Nothing Like

It is now Spring in Vermont, finally and I feel safe putting this one up, something I made a month ago.  This was from a picture I took up Mount Mansfield on New Year's Day.

I am fascinated by history and like recreating it either as skin-on-frame kayaks, viking clothing, medieval scabbards or whatever else interests me, but despite my urge to romanticize the past, I also can't help but keep in mind some very important advances that make our life a lot easier.

Nothing is better than snowshoeing a hard place then coming home to take a hot shower, turn up the heat and make a quick meal.