Wander and Paint — slow travel

Destination Diaries: Royal Kew Botanic Gardens

• adventure travel • Architecture • Beautiful Places • Birds • book covers • Book Illustration • Botanical Art • botanical illustration • Editorial illustration • flowers • illustrated travel journals • Pen and Ink • Postcards • slow travel • Slow travel Illustrated • Stationery Design • Stationery Illustration • stylized • Travel Posters • Urban Sketching • visual journalism • watercolor art journals • watercolor studies

Destination Diaries: Royal Kew Botanic Gardens

At first, when I entered the Royal Kew Gardens in London, my draw just dropped. [...]

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New Works: Jugo de Guanabana (Everyday Life Series #1)

• Artist Process • Book Illustration • botanical illustration • colorful • Food illustration • fruit illustrator • Gouache • graphic art • hand-painted • Illustrated art journals • Marketing Illustration • Natural Earth Paint • Pen and Ink • Process sketches • slow travel • Slow travel Illustrated • Urban Sketching • visual journalism • watercolor • watercolor art journals

New Works:  Jugo de Guanabana (Everyday Life Series #1)

I thought I'd try my hand at gouache ever since I saw a demonstration of the media in a Concepts and Metaphors class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[...]

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Pantry (Everyday Life Series #5)

• Adobe Photoshop • colorful • commissioned art • Craft Distillery Day • Editorial illustration • Food illustration • fruit illustrator • Gouache • Green • hand-painted • Magical Realism • Pen and Ink • slow travel • Slow travel Illustrated • stylized • Urban Sketching • visual journalism • watercolor art journals

Pantry (Everyday Life Series #5)

[...]  In truth, I was too distracted and way too much fun testing and drinking most of these drinks - except for the Barr's one- to think of them as potential props for an odd still life composition[...]

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Whimsical Geckos & Vèvè Mixed-Media Watercolor Pattern

• abstract • animal art • Art • art journals • colorful • Digital Illustration • Geckos • Gouache • graphic art • serene • slow travel • surface pattern • tribal design • watercolor art

Whimsical Geckos & Vèvè Mixed-Media Watercolor Pattern

If someone had ask me, before going to art school, if I could produce good artwork under pressure, I would have gently responded that maybe it was time to find new hobbies, other than pestering me with inconvenient existential musings [...]

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Art In Review - July

• Anolis • Archeology • art journals • gobleki Tepe • graphic art • Haitian art • Hand-lettering • hand-painted • Mythology • slow travel • symbols • Taino • tribal design • watercolor art journals

Art In Review - July

[...] To assess what I've accomplished this month in terms of creating and sharing artwork around a theme, I needed to do a month review. Was I successful? Or does working around a theme matter? [...]

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