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Colored pencils, acrylic washes, and coffee stains, on brown Canson drawing paper. 9 × 12 inches. Started out as a random shape brushed on with strong instant coffee. After that I added some of just about everything and came up with this creature who is perhaps inhaling a cup of coffee or tea.

Also available in a calendar. Buyers set the starting month so they are never out of date no matter what month you buy calendars.

As always, feel free to interpret my work as you wish; there is no one right meaning, especially not to something like this.

I don’t really know how to describe the style of my art work in one easy word. Surrealism sometimes applies but not always. They are not quite cartoons, either. At one point I thought I’d found my genre in an art magazine about “outsider art,” but then I learned that I don’t fit that because I have a formal art education. Who knew that having a degree could close a door for you, LOL!