Pink Trees and Buzzing Bees

You know how we tend to think of trees as being green? There is a tree near me that every spring is very definitely not green. Without one leaf unfurled, the entire thing is covered in the prettiest pale pink flowers winter weary eyes ever did see.

So, point number one, trees can be pink! And shrubs can be yellow (forsythia) and other trees can be white (pear, apple) other-worldly carmine (certain dogwoods), etc. You get the idea. Pop art depictions of wildly colored natural scenes may not be so fanciful, eh?

Here’s another thing: pink trees can be abuzz with lively beings enjoying their first fresh harvest of delectables in almost half a year. Bees have been sending sacrificial scouts out all winter to check on the progress of the season (often they fall to the ground doomed to die as their tiny bodies freeze solid too quickly for them to make it back to the hive). But nothing lasts forever, not even the worst winter and finally one day the scouts do return because it’s warmed up. It’s very easy for me to imagine the instant joy that flows through the swarm when they receive the news about spring from the location dance the scouts do to instruct everyone where to go collect this fabulous rejuvenating nourishment of the blooming pink tree.

Instead of blossoms or leaves the artist has depicted the movement throughout the tree made by happy bees feasting on the spring nectar

Point number two: feasting bees can redefine how we experience the shape of a tree with their activities. They can add a visible fourth dimension. The sketch depicts the branches of a tree and what might first appear to be blossoms is actually meant to be the delineated movements of the bees.’All too soon the blooms will fade and a wind will blow their petals away and this pink tree will become the more usual green. But we’re left with the knowledge that trees can be pink and can dance for days with the help of their partner bees.

Discussion

• Driveways can be pink. How?
• What color is grass?
• Bonus – What shape is grass?
• Orange, yellow and red trees? Really?
• White fields?
• What color is a body of water?
• The sky?

Activity

Artists and photographers delight in depicting the less usual states of natural objects. Most of us also love these extremes in color too – ever notice ow many people are apt to comment when a sunset gets going? Spend some time today observing the natural world around you. Look for example of what might be atypical in form, color or texture. If you’re in an urban setting you might think this is a bit of a challenge until you remember the sky and bring into focus those small inevitable bits of the natural world that always seem to find a way to exude themselves in the most unlikeliest of places. Rock doves’ (pigeons) plumage, the intrepid plants that find minuscule bits of earth in between cracks, beside buildings, and so on.

Creative Consideration

Using a nice new box of crayons and colored paper draw the same scene several times on differently hued sheets selecting a variety of colors for the main features. Green one time….purple another. Be sure to include anything from the natural world you like the best and think about the different ways those things can look throughout the year. The goal isn’t necessarily to be realistic for every drawing though capturing some of the more unusual states of an item may well be illuminating!

Bonus

Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
and so are you…

Can become….

Bushes are mauve
Trees are quite yellow
I love a landscape
that’s colorfully mellow!

Turning Ideas Into Action!

Ideas Like to Flutter Off

Many of us have tons of ideas. For some, ideas are the lifeblood that flows through our very souls connecting our hopes and dreams. But how do we get these esoteric beauties out of their glittery realms and into the harder world around us?

When we pick up a pencil, like dreams often do before we can give them our wakeful attention, ideas may floof coyly away. What are we to do? The solution is wonderfully and maddeningly easy: Just get started!

But start how? Where? And with what?

Consider the hummingbird. One fine day in spring her tiny self — along with her many wee cohorts — gets a bee in her bonnet and off she zips on a thousands + kilometer odyssey up to her summer haven. That impulse to go — to up and leave — and head somewhere on inspiration alone: that’s you and your ideas!

You fly and fly and replenish enough to keep flying. Maybe you don’t know exactly why you’re flying nor where you’re going, but you fly on and on. You keep going until you eventually arrive somewhere. Maybe just because you’re pooped or maybe because you get a right feeling a place; whatever the reason, you stop flying and switch gears.

That’s you with your unexpressed ideas. You’ve flown for miles and miles and now you’re perfectly poised to do what’s next!

And what is next?

Nest building!

This is the crux of the whole thing. To give foundation to ideas you have to build a safe place to nurture them.

The Start

For our hummer this means finding an out of the way space where she can start to build her home, where it won’t be molested by marauding crows, voracious squirrels or vagabond jays. What do you need to support the growth of your ideas?

• sketch or idea pad
• (sacred) daily time within your schedule (they say the muses attend to those who keep regular hours)
• an open mind (no need to self censor in these stages – let it flow!)
• potential outlets (ideas prefer arriving to places where they can grow)
• supportive resources

The Process

So now the place is found. Our tiny companion now transitions into nest building mode. She seeks items that will somehow fit and stick together to become something whole. Something that accommodates the goals inherent in the ideas. Which brings us to my favorite part of the whole process! The tipping point that transitions conceptual idea formation into dynamic attainment of the aspirations they’re meant to address.

Not everything sticks at first - or even ever...

This is where you ‘put one foot in front of the other’ and proceed. What I love about this part is this is the phase where false starts, little booboos and other mistakes (mis-takes) can be fairly easily absorbed by the process itself as long as the process continues. That’s the important point here: As long as the process continues!

For many of us after a series of little failures we may give up. That’s not cool. That’s where we abandon our nest because a few clumps of moss didn’t stick right.

What does the hummingbird do? She carries on with her work even though not everything she brings back works. She goes with the law of averages instead.

Let me personalize this. This blog you’re reading is a nest. I build it post by post, sketch by sketch. Not all of my efforts ‘stick’ with every reader. Some fall flat onto the hard ground. But some do stick and eventually because I don’t give up it’s coming together into a cohesive whole. It is inevitable that this will happen. As I keep at it I can not fail.

Here’s the other thing. The eggs all this nest building is for may not hatch. It may be conditions external to my efforts won’t allow it. But that doesn’t mean my nest isn’t perfect! We nest builder have to remember that what we create may not accomplish the goals we sought through our building endeavors. I may compile the posts on this blog into a beautiful book no one wants to buy. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t created a beautiful book!

Let’s say the hummingbird’s nest contains unhatchable eggs gets plucked out of the tree by a birder who sends it to a natural history museum that puts it in a glass case where generation after generation of inquisitive human eyes come to witness this miniature piece of beak-built architecture. Maybe one of them gets the idea to create a whole new way of assembling materials based on the experience of seeing this wonderfully adapted work.

The original intention remains unattained but crazy larger accomplishments because of those original efforts is!

That is Storybook Ending C.

Storybook Ending B is: great nest, no hatchlings — second even better nest is built!

Storybook Ending A? C + B.

Field Play

When I lived in a hip Chicago neighborhood one of my delights in this quintessentially urban lifestyle was observing the squirrels who made their living in the trees grown up between the brownstone walkups. I would delight in their scamperings whenever I went outside. I’d sometimes sit in the front window and watch them deftly negotiate the many challenges of being a wild animal in the city with what, to my eyes, looked like a lot of good sense and great cheer.

I would place unsalted peanuts out where I could watch the little blighters come and snatch them away. One neighbor had taken his peanut doling to a higher level and could pass them right into their grabby paws. I admired that greatly.

The author's husband observing his grandfather and squirrel pal.

My husband’s grandfather also had a way with these ebullient critters and in the backyard of a small town Ohio house hand fed the brave to the great delight of all. He wouldn’t let them smoke though that was a treat shared only with his pug dog but that’s another story.

Activity

Spend some time with animals at liberty (free, unimpeded with leashes, shanks or other attachments to your person) whether in your suburban backyard, your inner city dog park or your country pasture.

Hang out with whomever shows up and however they do so. Soak up what they offer. If you like take a gander at the video below shot from the viewer’s point of view and join the animals of DogTrot Hill on a warm late winter day.

Discussion

• Do animals that are not physically attached to you (leashes, etc) behave any differently when they are free to move about?
• How does it feel when they choose to approach you?
• In the video did you notice any instance of what might be called play behavior? Who did it, what did they do and what do you think of that?
• What do you think might have changed in these scenes if wild rabbits had hopped through?

Creative Consideration

1. Using colorful ribbons, string, and yarn braid together a four to six foot length.
2. With sturdy paper or cardbaord and drawing or painting supplies create a batch of images, words, quotes or photos that represent your own dreams, hopes and wishes.
3. With a hole punch and more string or wire attach these to the end of your dream leash.
4. Hang prominently to remind you what you wish to be attached to.
5. Be careful what you wish for.

Animal Intelligence – Part 1

Up until fairly recently learned people believed that humans alone enjoyed a ‘higher’ existence than any other animal or creature in our unique ability to be so very clever. Conventional wisdom held that only humans:

• had language
• use tools
• meaningfully play
• demonstrate reasoning
• and the biggie – can consciously process theoretical information

Lately, animal ethologists (those who study animal behavior) have caught up with the far more delightful realities of various animals substantiating all of these formerly exclusive to homo sapien characteristics.

An excellent example is Alex, the African Grey parrot under the tutelage of Dr. Irene Pepperburg who displayed a working knowledge of the concept of zero – an abstract core component of theoretical mathematics. To have done this Alex also employed the language Dr. Pepperburg taught him to communicate his answers to her queries. Why a parrot? Parrots can speak words that sound a lot like human language. Alex actually spoke in English. (He’s since died but the work carries on with other parrot students.)

So Dr. Pepperburg may ask, “How many keys?” and Alex responds clearly “Two.”. Then she might ask “What different?” and Alex says “Color.” as the two keys are each a different color. This in one usually cooperative being (Alex says “Wanna go back.” when he’s had enough of the training and testing) elements of naive intelligence heretofore assigned exclusively to humans alone were practiced by this little being with huge impact throughout the community of animal science. See Dr. Pepperburg’s interesting book about her adventures with Alex and the at first coldly unsympathetic world of animal behaviorists in her book Alex and Me.

With research like this showing the abilities of animals to employ intellect in ways similar to people old prejudices are forever invalidated. Mind you, observant pet appreciators could have told you this too.

Discussion

1. Have you observed intelligence in animals? What did you see? How was what you saw different from purely ‘instinctual’ behavior?
2. What are some ideas for experiments you could design to test for intelligence in behavior animals? The sky is the limit. No budget constraints.

Creative Consideration

Design a fantastical devise for measuring intelligence in the animal of your choice:

1. Decide on your animal
2. Figure out what you want to test and how.
   Can an elephant count? How can you tell? How will you measure that?
   Do seahorses sing their own compositions? How does one know? How will you find out?
   Do butterflies engage in politics? etc.
3. Sketch out your device with all it’s controls, bells, knobs and whistles.
4. Write a description about how it works.
5. Make a model or full sized version of it using whatever media is most appropriate or on hand to do so.

Extra Credit

Use it on yourself.

Use it on the animal you’re testing!

Post a Youtube video of your results!

Doggedly Pursue Purpose

Hachiko as a lost puppy

Hachiko was a dog in 1930′s Japan who was found by a kindly music professor who hadn’t been looking for a canine companion, least of all a puppy. Nevertheless the two forged an enduring friendship. Each day the man would walk to the train accompanied by Hachi (as he soon came to be called) and each evening the loyal Akita would be waiting for him as he exited from the station. This went on for about a year until the evening came when the professor did not return on the train.

How do you explain to a dog that his person has suffered an aneurysm of the brain and collapsed in his class and eventually passed on in the hospital never to return again? The professor’s family brought the dog home from the station but he always returned to wait for his friend. Finally they gave up. For the next nine years until he died Hachi waited for the professor at exactly the right time of day without fail. He lived on the streets, in the back end of the rail yard and generally got along as best a dog could on his own. He survived on the kindness of those who were sensitive to his plight.

He inspired all who learned of his story. Newspapers wrote about him. People came to speak of that train station as his and it became an auspicious place to meet. In fact when he died a statue was created and placed at the station to commemorate this dog and his unfailing loyalty. It is there still and people still meet there for luck.

You can see a nice version of this story as a movie. It’s called Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. Have a beach towel sized hankie ready though. Yes, you’ll cry, but it’s worth it.

Hachi's Lucky Statue

What to make of this loyalty? Was his a life wasted? After all the professor never did return. Or was this a being so dedicated to his purpose, to this love and remembrance of his friend that this was no waste. There was no time lost. Every minute he waited was a minute spent in purpose. On purpose.

That is the inspiration I choose from the loyalty of this dog. To know my purpose and to pursue it regardless of any external factor. Be dogged, actually.

Assignment

Watch the movie or even just google Hachiko. There are some nice photos of Hachiko on some of his Wikipedia entries.

Discussion

Though in recent years much progress has been made throughout the field of  animal behavior or animal ethology where the concept of animals having and expressing emotions is becoming more of an accepted notion there are still those who might take issue with a dog’s ability to express concepts like ‘loyalty’ or ‘love’. Questions:

1. Where do you stand on the issue?
2. Why?
3. Have you experienced either of these two emotions from a dog or other animal?
4. How did the animal make such emotions known to you?

Creative Consideration

Using plasticine clay (brand name Sculpey or Fimo) make a little sculpture to memorialize an animal or a concept near and dear to your heart. Place it somewhere you are sure to see it each day.

Singing Leads to Drawing

I live with three cattle dogs and besides being uniquely delightful individuals there is nothing particularly different about them as dogs. Sometimes they naturally sing. They’ll start by getting worked up about something they see or hear. An easy thing for a group of dogs. They tend to behaviorally ‘feed off’ of each other.

Then off they’ll go on an outstanding vociferous cacophony. Bark. Bark. Barkitty Bark! Then it gets worse. One of the bunch might dial it up to a howl and the others join.

I can usually set them off with my own horrific rendition of Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now of Never” (which is also “O Sole Mio” in case you’ve not noticed). This is where several things come to light:

• We’re loud
• We’re individual
• and not one of us stays quiet because we think we can’t sing.

Mind you, our singing may lack certain qualities to be sure, but no matter how poorly (and rightfully so) it might be judged — that never stops us from doing it.

• Jo: OOOOooOooOOooooooo >bark!< >bark!< >bark!< ooOooOOoooooo
• Ropey: Oof!  Oof!  Oof! Oof!  Oof!  Oof! Oof!  Oof!  Oof!
• Tingo: Yow  -  wow  -  wow  -  wow  -  bark bark bark bark bark bark

From this we can know that you, too, can sing – which means that you, too, can draw!

Your intentions set the course upon which your soul sails

Your intentions set the course upon which your soul sails. Thus those who proclaim: “I can’t draw!” are always right. Always. No matter how wrong you and I think they might be – if they don’t believe they can, then to them they can not. At least in their own minds. To a degree. Go back far enough in a person’s self assessment and you will discover no child ever willing to say such a thing. Children know better. We’re all born knowing better. What happens is we get taught out of some of our own abilities!

It’s only later in the developing life that people take on judgment about what their drawing produces and decide to absorb and integrate that crippling information about their abilities.

What is frustrating is they are wrong. Of course they can draw! They’re mistaken about that. What they can’t do, perhaps, is draw:

• up to their expectations or
• like someone else or
• easily or
• naturally or
• in a way that produces pleasing results for themselves.

So in the end the reality is when someone says “I can’t draw (or sing or dance, etc) what she means is:

• I won’t draw
• I don’t like the way I draw
• My drawings disappoint me
• or some such.

When one removes expectations of the results from drawing and focuses instead on the actions of drawing what happens is those old thought patterns start loosening up! With enough practice one may discover they can draw up to their expectations and end up loving what they produce or they may find they plain old enjoy the action of drawing and then of burning what they drew. All good stuff.

Animal Assisted Activity

Get some dogs to sing with you.

Extra Credit: See if you can get others to howl with you — dogs, humans, howler monkeys — doesn’t matter, it’s all good.

Creative Consideration

Draw on as large of pieces of paper as you can comfortably afford for ten to twenty minutes every day for a week. That’s ten drawings every day for a week. You’re allowed to spend 1 to 2 minutes per drawing – that’s it. No more. These aren’t meant to be labors of love so much as they’re meant to remind your arm how to move with a drawing implement at the end of it. Draw from your imagination, or just from the feel of it. This isn’t about still lifes – this is about moving pencils! Or pens, or brush with paint (one color) on it.

Sing in the shower during this week too. Karaoke or your own fun playlist of songs. Doesn’t matter as long as you like the music.

Imbolc Day – February 1

Imbolc Day celebrates hope + optimism

Today in the northern hemisphere we are halfway between the winter and spring equinox. In ancient Gaelic times this event was celebrated to mark the end of winter’s grip and the impending joys of spring. It’s a forward thinking very optimistic day indeed!

The root for the word, imbolc, harkens to pregnant ewes who will delivering their lambs soon. To celebrate properly then a little sheep’s milk cheese is offered, greens are collected (as available) and white candles are made ready.

Activity

Take a walk today out in some natural setting (a park, preserve, open field, woodsy nature trail, your back yard – wherever) and see who’s up and out on this fine St. Brigid’s Day (another name for it – honoring the Celtic Goddess of smithcraft, poetry and healing). If you’re a true urban dweller you may find that if there’s a zoo the animals kept there might be showing some signs of being more active. Too, the more common pigeons, tats and dog park attendees might also be showing subtle signs of being ready to turn the corner on this winter season. Take a wander and see what you think.

Creative Consideration

Let’s do the Imbolc Feast!

• Make a salad, baby greens will be most appropriate with toppings of young veggies – whatever you can snag. If you’re lucky enough to live near a cleaning running stream go see if there’s any wild watercress nestled near it to toss on top of your salad. If you’re in the city go to that fancy food store where they tuck in the mini baby vegetables and splurge for some to go with your feast. I’m jealous.
• Have some sheep’s milk cheese. Natural markets carry such stuff – but you know what? Goat’s milk cheese if almost as appropriate – so feta it is!
• Light some white candles. Dinky votives, tall pillars. Doesn’t matter. You’re lighting your shining knowledge that spring is coming — it’s inevitable now. We’re on the downward easy-street slide to it. Finally. Yay!

Remember your local friends!

I’m also going to add seeds (hope) and nuts (ditto) to my salad in honor of all the woodland creatures out there who are making it through the winter on their nut-saving guile. You know what? I’m also going to prepare a little feast for the squirrels and birds today in honor of all of this hope:

• diced apples
• peanuts
• breadcrumbs
• millet
• sunflower seeds

….I’m going to put it out where my dogs won’t bother them and cheer them on as they discover this unexpected windfall.

Groundhog’s Day

By the time the end of January finally comes up here in the northern hemisphere we’re all a little bonky. We’ve entered that ‘no-man’s-land’ space on the calendar where we’re between the holidays and far away from clement weather. We’ve put on the bulk of our winter heft consuming quality (high and low) snacks in our cozy cubbies so we’re not feeling too marvelous about ourselves either for the most part.

So we invented a goofy holiday in our cabin fever craze to give us hope; to instill in us a faint assurance that we >may< survive February – the meanest month.

February 2nd is Groundhog’s Day. A day when people in drab topcoats and cashmere scarves with microphones and cameras surround the humble burrow opening of a rather coarsely furred non-porcine large rodent, marmota monax (solitary marmot). The goal is to have the lone critter trundle out so a judgment can be made as to whether or not he sees his shadow. The math goes:

• if he sees his shadow then we’ve got six more weeks of winter
• if he doesn’t then spring is only a month and a half away

…or something I can never remember. I’m much too bleary minded by the time I’ve survived this much winter to remember much more than where I store the candy bars.

I wonder if there’s an ancient ritual we’re hearkening back to here. Some tradition steeped in the enduring combination of mythic optimism in a custom our ancestors would recognize. I could look into. Right now. Google’s right here. But I’d rather suss this out from my quasi-delusional winter funk so I might internalize the meaning. In fact, I invite you to do the same.

In the best case perfect world for (insert your name here) describe the significance or meaning(s) of Groundhog’s Day in the following terms:

• February 2ndn (why this day of all days?)
• Groundhog (seriously – how come these guys – bonus: what’s up with their name?)
• Shadow (this could get deep – go there!)
• No shadow (ditto)
• more winter (good thing? Bad thing? Why?)
• closer to spring (how does that feel)

Forget meteorology, The Farmer’s Almanac weather projections and The Scientific Method. Make stuff up!

Assignment

Watch the movie “Groundhog’s Day” (1993 Harold Ramis, with Bill Murray and Andie McDowell).

Discussion

Do-Overs
Pick a day from your personal history and describe how you might make some of the choices you made differently today.

Alternate Realities
Pick an event in your life and run through the outcomes of all the ways you might conceive of it having happened.

Sleeping In

Hibernation. Holing up. Going underground. These are all expressions of the wonderful skill many creatures practice in locations with seasonal stretches of hard cold environment. Times when survival is next to impossible.

They prepare a safe insulated sleeping place where their systems slow into a state somewhere beyond sleep but still this side of bodily existence.

When the surroundings are not supportive of life – these deft creatures simply detach until conditions change. Rather than struggle fruitlessly against environmental realities over which they have no power and from which there is no reasonable escape – they have a healthy instinct to wait it out as comfortably as possible.

I like to think they enter the consciousness of the quintessential state of boundless creation and renewal - the place of dreams

You don’t see skunks skulking around arguing with snow storms nor grizzly bears railing against rivers depleted of their bountiful fish by the circumstance of winter. Too, in drought prone dry places the critters there hunker down zoning out until more clement times return. I like to think they – and all the others – enter the consciousness of the quintessential state of boundless creation and renewal – the place of dreams. The total opposite of the struggle they might otherwise experience during the cyclical hard times.

If not the genius of the individual but the wisdom of her species ingrained well within her DNA, this propensity to ensure survival in this way inspires me to think more deeply about not just reaffirming and rejuvenatory qualities of dreams but their flat-out protective ones too.

Activities

1. Describe your perfect dreaming den:

• temperature
• sounds
• the qualities of the covers
• how dark (or light) is it
• time allowed to stay there
• what co-inhabitants are present
• what is the best way to be awakened
• which direction does the bed face
• are there views available to see and what are they

Yes think about your ideal situation for sleep geographically is that helps you get started – but then spend some thought highlighting what that perfect place has in the way of fundamental characteristics. So without the expense of a trip to, say, the South Pacific maybe you can create a more symbolically positive sleeping sanctuary for your regular nightly ‘hibernations’ mindfully assembling the most comforting accoutrement.

2. List some ways you might alter your own situation to help you recharge rather than be depleted this winter.

• comfy jammies
• cozy sheets
• fluffy pillows
• uplifting bedtime reading materials
• other bedtime rituals (hot toddy? nightly prayer?)
• soft light
• ambient sleep noises or music
• un-jarring ‘alarms’ (sound machines or programmable music settings)
• what do you look at when you awake – windows? Posters? Inspirational somethings? (quotes, shrine, photos, etc)

3. List Dream Topics you prefer to spend time with in your slumbers.

Creative Consideration

Sweet Dreams Pillow Case

1. You’ll need:

• plain, unpatterned pillowcase (you’ll get cleaner lines on an unwashed new one)
• fabric pens and/or paints (any permanent markers work too!)

2. Prepare a sketch of your ideas on a separate piece of paper. Write poems that inspire you, draw pictures of places you want to go or are love having already been. Inspired quotes are good, wishes are wonderful. Things you’re grateful for – these are all good topics.

3. Slip some newspaper or cardboard into the case so you don’t get accidental bleedthrough.

4. Have at it! If you start with painted outlines let those dry completely before coloring them in.

Sweet Dreams Pillow Insert

Let’s say you like the idea of the pillow case but don’t necessarily want the world (or that part of it you let into your bedroom) to see what you’ve done. cover your hand decorated pillow case with your regular patterned one. OR you can decorate a simple piece of plain material and tuck in between the case and the pillow.

Happy Thoughts

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What? No Activity?

Usually I start each blog off with some sort of animal assisted activity designed to help illuminate a personal challenge in some new way. Today I’m breaking from that pattern just a bit and sharing a project I just finished. Because it was designed to help me focus using creative flow on just one theme I figured it fits as a stand alone for what we’re all about here!

Sure! It’s an All-In-One is all

All of the above sketches were done in the morning with a cup of coffee while still in bed, well before the day got off and running. They were created as a part of a Very Large Art Project coordinated by a group of enthusiasts in Brooklyn, New York. I’m including in our blog here at QuantumSparks because they illustrate just how quickly positive imagery can be – how unencumbered by technique – how off the cuff so to speak.

In the project I chose the theme “Happy Thoughts“, so each page is a little ditty done on something that when I think about it makes me happy. This is an excellent exercise for you too!

In today’s blog post the Activity and the Creative Consideration are one and the same. All you need to do is pick up a small inexpensive sketchbook and with a pencil have at it! Just complete the thing with a bunch of quick drawings about things that make you happy! No wait, I take that back – they don’t have to be drawings at all. You can also just fill the thing up with lists or cut outs of things that make you happy. The point is:

1. to do it a little bit every day for upwards of a week
2. to only include things that fill the bill

That’s it!

See the Originals!

To see my sketches in their full blown glory click here and an online flip book of the whole shebang will open in a new window.