RiSe N DRaW

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

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

FeeLiN’ FiNe

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

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)

LiFe DaY 1

LIFE IS HAZEY

11″ x 15″ Pen & Prismacolor on Watercolor Paper

 

 

We only get one while we’re here and we can’t even remember most of the beginning parts.  What was I thinking about when I was in those first few years?  How were all of these things around me shaping the person I am today?  There are such high hopes for you when you are brand new.  Did my mother know that when she gave me a piece of paper and a box of crayons that it would turn into this?

STaTe oF My MiND

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.

oN THe iNSiDe

JUST THINKING

11″ x 15″ Prismacolor Markers on Watercolor

 

 

We all go through some good times and some bad times.  We all have a story to tell.  We all build the world around us to fit to our vision of how life should be.  We are all capable of greatness.  What happens based on our decisions is left to the world to decide.  Who do you want to be?  What are your dreams?  What is your story?  Wake up and live…

FouND You

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

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.

a GooD MaN

JOHNNY

11″ x 15″ Drawing on Watercolor Paper

 

 

Johnny was a good manWoman 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!

RaSTaMaN LiVe uP!

LIVE UP

11″ x 15″ Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper

 

 

Rastaman live up. Bongoman don’t give up. Congoman live up, yeah. Binghi-man don’t give up.  Keep your culture. Don’t be afraid of the vulture. Grow your dread lock. Don’t be afraid of the wolf-pack. 

DoN’T Be SQuaRe

CIRCLE GETS A DOT

8.5″ x 11″ Marker on Watercolor Paper

 

 

After I finished this I looked at it and it reminded me of the old game show Hollywood Squares.  Then I put it down and came back to it a few days later and… it still reminded me of Hollywood Squares.  I know circle gets a square or x gets a square is how it went, but in mine circle gets a dot instead.