Since my peeps are off having adventures I took myself to a nice little gouache painting workshop at ARCH Art Supplies w/ Nathaniel Bice for my birthday. He was super nice and a good teacher! I think this was my first time painting on one of these gessoed panels. I liked it! I especially liked the magenta underpainting idea and I kind of wish I had left a bit more pink peeking through on the final painting.

Other drawing stuff I have been working on is in procreate. I need to get my Dirt Bag stickers finished!

OMG my screen was so dirty, please don’t judge.

I also came across this sketch I did at the ASLA conference workshop with Chip Sullivan. I’m back to being inspired bye the idea of tarot-like cards for landscape design principles. How can I work with this idea? I ned to sketch more!

The past few years I have participated in the Oakland Animal Services Bad Art fundraiser. For this fundraiser folks send in pictures of their pet with some other info about the pet, donate some amount of money, and OAS gives the pic to an artist who has signed up, they paint the pet and send the picture in. the artist can make produce any level of art in any flat medium.

I do not paint animals very often but I have tried to make cute pics for folks. Here are a few I’ve done.