ORIGINAL POST DATE: September 19, 2005

Here are the latest images from my pocket size sketchbook.

These images are the result of thinking about a mixture of cultural ideas; some Celtic, some Greek, some German, combined with alchemical planetary symbols.

ORIGINAL POST: August 30, 2005

This second image from today's Moleskinei Gallery additions is a drawing I did after looking at a lot of engravings from books about alchemy. I felt the urge to do a detailed drawing that had the look of a print. Done with a Pilot pen rather than pencil in this case.

ORIGINAL POST: August 30, 2005

I have added a few new images to the NWD Moleskinei Gallery. Both were completed in my large Moleskine sketchbook, each with very different mediums.

This image is a drawing of a crow that I salvaged from an earlier work and attached to the page of the sketchbook. The original drawing was done with dark brown ink and watercolors and I added some additional color using watercolor pencils and Prismacolor colored pencils.

The more I work in the large size sketchbook the more I like it. The surface of the paper offers a challenge for some wet mediums, but seems to work well with the watercolor pencils I am using (Caran D'Ache). It has taken a little bit to get used to what works well on this paper, but it has been fun trying different combinations of pencils and pens to get the desired results. It has been well worth the effort, and I love working on this scale between the unassuming black covers of my Moleksine.