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Slowly making my way back to some landscapes.
#simplelandscapes #landscapestudy #landscapesketchbook #sketchbook #landscaper

More monkey play.
#monkeys #monkeyplay #monkeyingaround #sumiink #inkdrawing

The octopus makes another appearance.
#octopus #octopi #sumiink #inkdrawing #theocean

I saw many drawings of octopuses (octopi?..) while in Japan. Then I watched a great 3 part documentary on them too. They are such fascinating animals. Trying to find the story among the awesomeness.
#octopus #octopusart #octopi #inkdrawings #japanes

Just monkeying around.
#monkeys #monkeys #sumiink #japaneseinspired #monkeymind

Found another page in the sketchbook.
#japan #sketchbooks #japanart #ilovejapan #travelsketchbook

A few more bits from my trip to Japan.
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- The first image is a “memory sketchbook” page. I like to do these silly vignette pages when I travel, when I have some down time. I try to remember all the odd quirky bits from my trip and

A few more photos from Japan.
- Small worlds miniature museum.
- Sculpture and other stuff in the midtown mall.
- Kyosai show.
#kyosai #smallworlds #smallworldstokyo

More photos from my Japan trip. So many stunning views. The land for simplicity and elegance.
#fuji #kimonos #shrine #ilovejapan❤️ #japan

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A few photos from the first few days in Tokyo. The Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and Shibuya. Wow. What a busy and beautiful land. More photos and sketchbook to come. 🙏🇯🇵🙏#tokyo #ilovetokyo #japan #japantravels #japanesegarden

Here are some random bits from my time in SF. I’ve been trying to squeeze in time to draw the architecture- to get some practice in before Japan!🇯🇵
The photos are from the ceramic studio where Maja took her classes at U of P. The other ones

What an amazing journey. The eagle has landed. :) Maja graduated Summa cum laude. Such a long winding road to get there. I’m so proud of my amazing girl. ❤️
@maja_papayas @universityofthepacific @benerdcollege

Simple little landscape study. Sketchbook play.
#landscape #littlelandscape #sketchbook #pines #pinetrees

Sketchbook figures.
#woman #bodies #sketchbooks #figuredtudy #bodyshapes

Pilea and clover study.
I’ve been working on this still life for a while..final feeling like maybe it’s done. It’s funny, I started not even intending to do a still life but somehow the shapes I saw reminded me of my Pilea plant so

Sketchbook play. Figures in oil on paper.
#figures #peopleshapes #bodies #gestures #abstractedfigure

Here’s some of my sketchbook pages from Bologna. Italy is my muse…I hold the memories of the years I lived there so dearly. The sounds, the colors, the flavors, the frenetic energy. All of it washed over me again. Grateful to have gotten

Here’s a few photos I snapped when I was out and about in Bologna. I noticed that this time around I was captured by sunsets and the mood that comes about when the shapes get dark in the foreground and the light sneaks in. The flower market on

Here’s a few pages from a trip to Italy from a few years back. I’m excited to return to the @bolognachildrensbookfair and I wanted to see if anyone else is headed the Bologna Children’s book fair as well. I’d love to meet up a

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