This is a depiction of the Buddha I was inspired to paint after I heard "The Birthday Party," a song by Peter Mayer. The text in the painting is the opening line of the song.

This is a portrait of my friend Mab as The Morrighan. In Celtic legend, The Morrighan is the goddess of war and death and she sometimes took the shape of a crow or raven, or was accompanied by these birds.

This is a study I did for a sculpture project involving the Norse god Odin's twin ravens, Hugin and Munin. Legend tells us that Odin sent Hugin and Munin out every day at dawn to fly over the world and bring back news of everything they observed.

"Robot dark knight" was another Daily Sketch Group topic. Often when I read the daily topic, ridiculous ideas pop into my head and I just have to draw them. This was one of those. Everyone else was drawing creepy, dark, menacing robot knights while I sketched out my skinny little knight on his silly horse. I can just hear the wheels squeaking as he rides off in search of his nemesis, the robot white knight ...

This was the first thing I created after my copy of Painter 8 had arrived in the mail. "River guardian" was the Daily Sketch Group topic that day, and I liked my sketch enough to want to refine it a little bit. I had fun trying out lots of different media brushes in Painter on this one.