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2025-06-20
Birds of Light Series - The Patterned Egret
Playing with color, texture and pattern, each print is created using a combination of hand-drawn colored pencil and digital media.

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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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On a highly textured background of gold, orange and green, stands a solitary egret gazing into the distance with one blazing yellow eye.  On top of its Cerulean blue and Tyrian purple feathers and legs, abstract patterns in similar colors are drawn.
2025-06-19
GARDEN OF DREAMS
a place layered with mysteries,
where swaying flowers sing songs of gentle healing.
Where dreams are born.
Bring your hurt and broken pieces here for care and mending.
In this garden, all will be well.

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Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor washes and textures. In a limited palette of sienna, a highly textured image of a strange flowering place. Within its space, various beings sleep and dream in the foliage.
2025-06-19
The Fox in the Forest
Early one cool blue morning, a vivid orange fox dashes across the grass, perhaps to meet a companion for breakfast. :-)

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Caught in a beam of sunshine, a blaze of orange streaks past as a fox dashes quietly though the blue green forest. Pink, purple and deep teal bloom in flowers and leafy plants in the foreground.
2025-06-19
Secret Corners: The Playroom Floor
In the hidden corners of the world, sweet mysteries abound. The little girl witnesses a magical moment as tiny creatures march across her playroom floor.

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Pencil drawing of a young girl kneeling on a patterned rug, playing with her doll. On the floor, in front of her, eleven tiny creatures march in and out of the designs on the floor, lit up by an open window, casting long shadows.
2025-06-19
into the garden - peace of mind
This is the fourth in a series of paintings that illuminate the transformative beauty of the natural world. To visually express how total immersion into wild spaces can create a profound sense of peace; restore wonder; and generate calm in an increasingly chaotic world.

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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests.
2025-06-19
SOUL PEOPLE: Hope Beckons
Soul: the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life; the moral and emotional nature of human beings. (source:Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

I watch the local and national news too much. As a result, I am witness to people facing serious life challenges that are beyond my own measured world.

To me, the Soul People series reflects aspects of intrinsic humanity, including the suffering, alienation, confusion as well as the quest for joy, peace and understanding that people experience in their day to day lives. Depending upon the "soul" within, they deal with these challenges differently. In these images I am trying to explore and visualize what that might look like.

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Abstracted collaged female face on a textured background. On her forehead, a blooming pink daisy.
2025-06-19
BABY MONSTERS: Monsters have babies too.
Baby monsters are even harder to find than the elusive "baby" pigeon. Very few folks can say that they've seen them, let alone created their portraits. I have been lucky. As you might imagine, monster parents can be a bit protective. Mothers in particular. They consider us (humans) more than a bit strange and potentially dangerous. It took most of my free time, lots of monster "treats" and carefully followed Monster Etiquette to befriend just a few of them. Even then, I felt a bit nervous and on edge as I made sketches of their most beloved offspring. It is always a good idea to remind oneself that monsters are ultimately unpredictable creatures, and should be given proper respect at all times.

This teeny, weeny baby is about the size of a large acorn. I found her around twilight, huddled on the forest floor, hiding amongst the fallen leaves and acorns, waiting for her mom to return with dinner. I kept my distance while I hastily made her portrait, knowing that she was somewhere close by. The last thing I wanted to do was make this sweet baby anxious.

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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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Purplish dusk deep in the woods, a tiny baby monster -- the size of a large walnut, with delicate scales of pink, gold and light blue, is nestled in a bed of leaves and acorns. Head, arms and legs are wrapped tightly around itself as it waits nervously for its mother to arrive with dinner. Large eyes peer from its face, surrounded by floppy ears and tiny claws.
2025-06-19
into the garden - summers end
This is the third in a series of paintings that illuminate the transformative beauty of the natural world. To visually express how total immersion into the deep colors of gardens and wild spaces can create a profound sense of peace; restore wonder; and generate calm in an increasingly chaotic world.

This artwork is NOW AVAILABLE in my Redbubble shop:
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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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Against a deep umber, rust, purple and green background, the top of a pumpkin orange abstract head with closed eyes. On its crown, a patch of dandelions whose dried white heads open into full spheres, parachuting seeds as they glide through the wind.
2025-06-19
Teacups. Tiny monsters.
Enjoying a peaceful moment to themselves. Humans aren't the only ones who enjoy a spot of tea now and again. Little monsters have been know to slip quietly into kitchens when no one is around and sneak a sip of two of freshly brewed sweetness. This sleepy creature drank a bit too much sweet jasmine tea and found it hard to stay awake. Shhhhhh...

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Set against a rosy colored wallpaper with pale blooms, a dainty china teacup decorated with swirling buds, sits quietly on a table top. Inside, a strange being reposes, with heavily lidded eyes. Atop its head are pink branches with teal colored leaves. It appears to be deeply pondering the universe as it slips into a blissful sleep.
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2025-06-18

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2025-06-18
GO DEEP TO FIND YOUR BLISS
Life can often feel chaotic. Unbalanced. Stressful.
Try and see that it is just on the surface.
Stop frantically treading water just to stay
afloat amidst the craziness.
Instead, choose to go deep.
Deep down, where the restless tides abate.
Deep within, where inner calm resides.
Where bliss can be found.

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On a watercolor background of blue, two thirds of which is water with pale vertical stripes and the top one third a highly textured sky with yellow sun. Frantically treading water at the surface, an orange sullen creature with yellow horns peeks above. At the very bottom of the picture, deep within the water and tied with a string, a pinkish balloon gently floats. Inside it is a red heart.
2025-06-18
Birds of Light Series - The Sleeping Owl
Playing with color, texture and pattern, each print is created using a combination of hand-drawn colored pencil and digital media.

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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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On a highly textured background of golds and greens, a linear drawing of a sleeping owl. Blues, pale lavender, oranges added to the owls face and body.
2025-06-18
INNER MONSTERS
Inner Monsters don't necessarily look like "real" monsters. They are part of that constant chatter going on in the background of our own minds, shaping our view of the world. They can appear in a variety of forms, from human, animal, monster-like, even as plants! Most of us... ahem... keep our inner beasties tucked "safely" in the closet, hoping they won't decide to reveal themselves at inopportune times, causing all manner of embarrassing moments, like sudden extreme shyness, unexplained crying jags, overwhelming crankiness, or laughing out loud for no apparent reason, among others. Sound familiar?
The solution is (drum roll please...) to MEET your inner monsters, SEEK to understand them, EMBRACE them as yours, and then LEARN about yourself through them. Bring them out of your personal inner-verse and set them free!

This artwork is NOW AVAILABLE in my Redbubble shop:
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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.

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Textured colors of spotted, mottled brown and orange. An ink drawing of a cat/bear-like creature stares with distress and wonder outward. It has a  small nose and a long thin mouth with seven sharp protruding teeth.  It clawed arms hang protectively in front of it.
2025-06-18
Gorgeous Monsters & Their Pets
Welcome to my new interview series. I am the official human spokesperson for the Guardian Monster Guild, editor of the "Monster Times & Review" and author of the glamorous tell-all book, "What Monsters Want". These are hard-won credentials that I have worked tirelessly to obtain. As an ordinary human being, entering the realm of Monsterdom requires a rigorous determination, and an ego that can survive all manner of taunts, threats and indignation. I have endured countless nips, pokes and licks from numerous monsters whose intent, it seems, was to provoke me into giving up. I have proved them wrong! NOTE: This latest set of interviews on monster pets is for human eyes only and includes interviews with a select group from the Gorgeous Monsters Society. (This is the name they give themselves.) Here we discuss their feelings of unabashed adoration for their beloved pets as well as their care and feeding.

Meet Ms. Premivarria of the Chewston tribe & her Screaming Meemees: Alto, Basil and Suprema.

(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.
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A rather stern creature, deep green in color and patterned in intricate and interlocking swirls, relaxes upon an ornate upholstered chair. She gazes languidly into the distance, while her three six-legged felines of vivid orange mewl for attention. One clawed tentacle dangles a toy playfully for her pets.

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