LIBRARY KISS INKED

11" x 8 1/2"

Pentel brush pen japan in hand:book sketchbook

LIBRARY KISS

11" x 8 1/2"

Dixon Ticonderoga @ 2 pencil in hand:book sketchbook

I'll be inking this later. Time for the Pentel brush pen.

DREAM JOURNAL AMSTERDAM

11" x 17"

Pilot Precise V5 extra fine pen in hand:book sketchbook

Being lost in a familiar city is a recurring dream I have quite often. However this time I dream that I am in Amsterdam and I'm not lost at all. I walk all over the place and realize that the landmarks Centraal Station, Dam Square and the Oude Kerk are the only places I need as navigational reference points.

As I strut around the streets I pick up snippets of conversations and even though I speak no Dutch, I completely understand what is being said. When I continue walking one stranger after another comes up to me asking for directions to this place or that. It's no problem to give them detailed instructions so that they can find the places they are looking for.

Leaning on a guardrail over looking a canal I begin to panic as it dawns on me that this is too weird. Why are these people I don't know coming up to me?

Suddenly to my left I see a woman with black hair and a hooded coat standing next to me I don't say anything to her but keep watching her with the side eye. She turns, looks me in the eye and says "The reason why is because you belong here as a helper."

ZOE

18" x 24"

4H Derwent graphic pencil, Faber Castell brushes, Pentel brush pen, Kuretake Fude brush, Shiva paint sticks and General's white China marker on Strathmore canvas paper

First stage of a work in progress. This will end up as a concert poster once I draw the name, date and venue.

JANE DOE

JANE DOE

12" x 18"

Faber Castell brushes, Blickrylic fluorescent paint and General's white China marker on paper

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

16" x 20"

Staedtler #2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3brush, Dr. Ph Martin Bombay black India ink and Faber Castell brushes on Strathmore canvas paper

A scene from one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies. Newspaper reporter John Jones (Joel McCrea) is sent to England during the last week of August 1939 to find out if war is imminent. He meets the lazy correspondent Stebbins (Robert Benchley), who spends his time carousing instead of investigating and reporting. In this scene they meet in front of a hotel and Stebbins tells Jones he is having lunch with old man Clark of the international press.

Just then a woman (Barbara Pepper) comes out of the hotel and greets Stebbins "Oh there you are my darling! I didn't know whether to meet you in the grill or upstairs."

Jones sees what's up and says "Hmm. Goodbye Stebbins, goodbye Miss Clark."

Great subtle burn!