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Perception – Deck of 34 Original Drawings

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I drew each card with Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (India Ink), Pilot pen (Opaque white ink) and Prismacolor Colored pencil on antique & vintage wallpapers that I salvaged when renovating my house last year.
An ACEO stands for Art Cards, Editions and Originals. They can be created with any medium on any surface but [...]

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School of Fish Illustration

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Just swimming in the sea…
School of Fish was created in late October 2009 with Windsor and Newton watercolour, Prismacolor Verithin coloured pencils, Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens (india ink) and Pilot Hi-tec C pens on Arches watercolour paper. All materials used are archival.

They are the Sultry Seahorse’s posse!

This original artwork measures 8×10 inches (20,5cm by [...]

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George deserves a proper introduction

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This is George.

He was created with ink on flecked grey and taupe Ingris paper. The original drawing measures 5×7 inches / 17,7cm by 12,6cm.
He’s the pretty fish who swims the sea’s with Milton, spotted Eddie, Francis, Annabelle and Emily.
And he’s got a great tail!

George is available in three sizes:
• Mini George ACEO Limited Edition [...]

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Just Imagine touching the Intangible

You can’t say that you don’t crave escape from the every day, the mundane, the mediocre lifestyle that is your life (at times). We all get those moments where we want to plunge into another reality, someone else’s life perhaps, another world where things make sense and you are not left wondering why; things are [...]

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Do You Love Me?

She says "Do you love me?" as she grabs his curled foot…
Wow I illustrated this 7 years ago! It is also one of the few illustrations that bear my married name as I am divorced now. It is signed with a tiny tiny "JB 2001" down on the bottom right rather than a "JD 2001". [...]

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Another land another day another dream

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Sometimes art needs to take you away
to another land where flowers spin,
the terrain is checkered moss green and ocher;
where the grass grows as bamboo
and is pointy at it’s tip.
I created this art card using Kroma artist quality acrylic, pigmented ink and archival pen on 1/8″ (3mm) thick cold press illustration board. It is varnished three [...]

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Cold SORE – aTTacking

Yes, Herpes runs rampant among us. 50 to 80 percent of the population at any given time is sprouting an open sore on their upper or bottom lip.
I drew this to attack the stigma associated with Herpes Simplex 1, the virus which causes oral cold sores. A cold sore is really no different than the [...]

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THEN there were five flowers…

…sprouting from the orange hued alien terrain.
THEY were happy flowers.
They grew together UNTIL…
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Size – 2.5″ by 3.5″ or 6.4cm by 8.9cm
Artist quality acrylic and India ink on acid free card stock
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Eye in Cognito

size – 4 by 6 inches with a tiny white border where it had been taped down to keep it flat while drawing
materials – Windsor & Newton Watercolor, Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens and Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils on Arches watercolor paper.
Thanks for looking!
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Belladonna

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The fictitious Belladonna bulb in bloom…
I completed this watercolor today.
Size – 4 by 6 inches
Materials – Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens, Windsor & Newton watercolor and Holbien gouache on Arches watercolor paper

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Rudolph the Alien Llama

Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph
the alien reindeer Llama
had a lopsided eye
and one
three toed hoof
…and enjoyed wearing red neck ties to work.
He had a five headed alien sister…

…and red conjoined alien brothers.

All three were drawn using black and red Pilot Gtec C4 pens in a Moleskine Cahier.
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Boot in the Box

Drawn in a Moleskine Cahier using a Pilot G-tec C4 pen.
The above scan has been converted to greyscale from colour in Photoshop.
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Ideas Form in the Clouds

The TRUE STORY – At a gathering one night *Monica tried and successfully squeezed her size 9 feet into size 6 roller skates… and skated in them for about an hour.
Yes her feet hurt afterwards. But the moral of the story is she had fun in her pursuit of happiness.
Size – 10 by 10 inches [...]

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A bird looking at fuzzy looking things

I have been drawing more lately using my favorite pen; the PILOT G-TEC-C4. Excellent for writing and/or drawing. The above spread was created over a few days this week. I tend to draw many things at once, going back over them again and again adding detail. I never use a pencil first, unless I am [...]

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