Ink and watercolor with gouache highlights.

For Ben Towle’s new “AlphaBeasts” project. This is an Astomi, a creature that survives on smells alone (and has to avoid potentially fatal stinkiness.) Ink, gouache, pencil in sketchbook.

Another sketch built around some collaged-in bits of my son’s painting. Collage and gouache in sketchbook.

A variation on yesterday’s painting. I like how the pencil texture came out. (Gouache and pencil in sketchbook, some digital punch-up.)

A memory of summer. Here I’m trying to go all Winslow Homer and get the right values and patterns. Gouache in sketchbook, from photo.

Another collage/paint piece based around bits of an old painting. Also a lovely vacation spot, I bet.

A kitchen-sink piece. Gouache, collage, ink and pencil in sketchbook.

The big dark trunk is a scrap of a painting that my son and I collaborated on, which got shredded trying to remove it from the easel. I decided I liked the scraps and pinned them to my studio wall for awhile. The other trunks are another drawing that I decided would be better off cut up. I’ve got another 2-3 sketchbook pages with “starter” scraps pasted in – looking forward to seeing what happens!

From the sketchbook.

Done with some ancient bricks of tempera paint (still saturated after all these years!) & brushpen, while half-watching Charade. I hope my son doesn’t mind me borrowing his paint set.

Getting back in the saddle after a too-long absence from painting.