Tag Archives: Drawing

RiSe N DRaW

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COCK-A-DOODLE DOODLE

11″ x 15″ Pen & Marker on Watercolor Paper

 

Rise up this mornin’.  Yawn with the rising sun.  There is a bird, that’s in my mind set.  Singin’ sweet songs, to me to get me out of bed.  And get images into my head, head, head…  Singin’ start drawing… everything.  Cuz everything you draw… is gonna be just right.  Singin’ start drawing… everything.  Cuz everything you draw… is gonna be just right.  Rise up this mornin’.  I got a pen in hand.  I got some paper and markers too.  I’m gonna draw now, draw now for all of you, you, you… Singin’ start drawing… everything.  Cuz everything you draw… is gonna be just right.  Singin’ start drawing… everything.  Cuz everything you draw… is gonna be just right.  ~my take on Three Little Birds

MaKe WaY

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THE PRINCE

11″ x 15″ Pen & Marker on Watercolor Paper

 

Now I see his face. I’ve seen him smile. Such in a lonely place. No golden mile, his eyes tell morbid tales of his black heart. His deeds through ages past tell of his part.
See his face, see his smile Time to die
An angel from below change my dreams. I want for glory’s hour, for wealth’s esteem. I wish to sell my soul. To be reborn. I wish for earthly riches, don’t want no crown of thorns.
See his face, see his smile Time to die
I was born a fool. Don’t want to stay that way. Devil take my soul with diamonds you repay. I don’t care for Heaven. Don’t you look for me to cry and I will burn in Hell from the day I die.
See his face, see his smile Time to die  ~Metallica

ANoTHeR DiMeNSioN

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PORTALS

11″ x 15″ Marker & Pen on Paper

 

What would you do if there were portals that would let you travel back in time?  Would you go back and win the lottery?  Would you make sure you got all A’s in school?  Maybe re-live a moment in time a little bit differently?  Or maybe not use the portals at all?  Maybe everything that is happening now is happening for a reason and it doesn’t need to be changed.  Maybe this was written?  Maybe…

 

FeeLiN’ FiNe

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WHAT A DANDY

11″ x 15″ Pen & Primacolors on Watercolor Paper

 

 

The name of this piece is brought to you by my co-worker/friend Seth.  I was scanning it when he came over and that was the first thing that came to his head when he saw it.  So, What A Dandy it is.  Hope today is a dandy for everyone else as well.  Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!

aNoTHeR WaVe

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SURF RIDER

11″ x 15″ Pen & Primacolors on Watercolor Paper

 

 

“…there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove the nine to five, shove the rules… we’re just going to follow our hearts, treat each other well, eat well and enjoy the ocean. It was not for money and it wasn’t for fame… that’s what we’re gonna do… purely because that’s what our hearts want to do. That was amazing.”  -Jim Banks (quote from the Switch-foot book)

STaTe oF My MiND

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CALMER THAN YOU ARE

11″ x 15″ Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper

 

 

What is everyone so worried about?  Life?  Life goes on and on and on and…  Think about the hardest part of your day today and realize it isn’t really that hard at all.  Someone out there has got it way worse than you do.  People are dying of hunger while others honk their horns in line at the drive-thru because the service isn’t fast enough.  Back off the horn and calm down a little.  Calm is a state of mind, the state of my mine.

FouND You

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HELLO LOVE

11″ x 15″ Prismacolor Markers on Watercolor

 

Hello love, I’m so glad I found you.  You’ve been hiding on me for a while.  I hope you stick around this time, because I really like it when you’re here.  I know you’ve got a lot of people to take care of in this world and you’re doing such a great job at it.  I just hope we’re all doing good… at taking care of you.

HiGH TiDe

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CATCH IT

11″ x 15″ Prismacolor Markers on Watercolor Paper

 

 

It will call you.  I heard it about a week after my first trip to Hawai’i.  It is still there and probably always will be. It’s the call of the waves.  I can’t surf. I can get up on a board and catch waves, but I’m like a baby taking its first steps.  There is nothing smooth about it when I’m out there.  But I still love it.  I love every moment in the ocean.  The waves, the beach and the sun… that is where I want to be.

RiSe uP THiS MoRNiNG

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BY MY DOORSTEP

11″ x 15″ Marker & Pen on Watercolor Paper

 

 

I know you’ve seen these little birds on a canvas already, but I had to finish off the sketch.  Not to mention, I think these guys are pretty cool and I love the song.  So, I hope you all have a good day and if anything is bothering you maybe it really isn’t that big of a deal.

a GooD MaN

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JOHNNY

11″ x 15″ Drawing on Watercolor Paper

 

 

Johnny was a good man.  Woman hold her head and cry, ’cause her son had been shot down in the street and died, from a stray bullet.  Woman hold her head and cry. Explaining to her was a passerby, who saw the woman cry. Wondering how can she work it out?  Now she knows that the wages of sin is death, yeah! Gift of Jah is life. She cried, “Ah-um, I – I know! Johnny was a good man, I – I know!  Never did a thing wrong, Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, Good, good, good man”, Johnny was good man, she cried – she crie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ied!

BuLLy

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BIFF

8.5″ x 11″ Digital Image and Drawing

 

 

Biff.  A great name for a bully.  Who can forget the movie Back to the Future and the character Biff Tannen?  He was the classic bully and was brought to life by actor Thomas F. Wilson.  There’s a piece of movie trivia for ya.  He also played Griff Tannen in Back to the Future II and Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen in Back to the Future III.  This isn’t a drawing of him, but he sure looks like a Biff to me.

i MeaNT To Do THaT

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WHAT I WANTED

11″ x 15″ Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper

 

 

This is not what I wanted to draw.  This is not what I wanted to paint.  Or is it?  Is it the other way around?  This is what I wanted to draw.  This is what I wanted to paint.  I don’t know which I wanted to do or not do, but this is what I came up with.

iNTo THe DeeP

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A CONSCIOUSNESS

11″ x 15″ Marker & Pen on Watercolor Paper

 

 

I feel like I’m looking deep into somebody’s mind when I’m staring at this piece.  What are the thoughts in there that you don’t know you’re thinking?  What are dreams?  What is real?  Can we really tap into parts of our brain that doctors and scientists say we are not using?  Maybe we’re not supposed to be able to use them.  Maybe there’s a reason for that.

oDD CouPLe

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HAPPY TOGETHER

8.5″ x 11″ Marker on Watercolor Paper

 

 

I spotted this lovely couple while walking to the cafe in the morning in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.  He was rockin’ some swimming goggles, a scarf and a sweet mustache.  She was in leopard skin tights, a flannel and hot pink hair.  They were a match made of foam.  They were a match made in heaven.

DoWN WiTH BaByLoN

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CHANT DOWN

11″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Wood

 

 

Babylon is all around us.  It is the government.  It is the various systems that are in place trying to govern our existence to fit certain molds.  Consumerism, material wealth, politricks, money and more, are these the things that really matter today?  They were put in place to put the people in their place.  Chant dem down!  Sing the songs of revolution and inform the people that we do not need these systems.  We need to live off the land and be free!  Chant dem down!  Don’t be a victim of the system anymore.  Chant dem down with the sounds of reggae music!  Jah Live!