A very funny typo. I meant to write "fancy pants." I got distracted.
This was for sketchbook revival 2026!
#sketchbookrevival #sketchbook #collage

I took a delightful watercolor class on National Parks with Angela Wright at the Jansen. The first of five was Yellowstone. Wowee, those colors. And I replicated the watercolors from the hotspring or whatever it is in the park name with gouache.

I covered this sketchbook with almost an entire Who Gives a Crap toilet-paper wrapper. It has a soft, pleasant feel. The paper stretches a little when I glue it (I used a Uhu stick) and wrinkles slightly, resulting in a lovely textured finish. #upcycle #crafts

At Sketchbook Revival, I learned how to make an Australian piano-hinge book. Its signatures are infinitely replaceable, held in by a full-height paper slip in one-inch tabs. Again, I used Who Gives a Crap toilet-paper wrappers for the spine and tabs. It's nice paper! #bookbinding #sketchbook

Thanks! I think I have an elephant poo sketchbook somewhere. I should find that.

Shout-out to one of my go-to brands, Who Gives a Crap! Why, you might ask? The covers for this hand-bound sketchbook are wrapped in their limited "dream" run of toilet-paper wrappers! #WhoGivesACrap #upcycle

I pen-test every sketchbook—burned too often. This one (Australian piano hinge!) has four paper types, so I made tiny test booklets for each. Do you pen-test your sketchbooks? Learned the binding on #sketchbookrevival #bookbinding

This wee little friend to its larger pieces title "A Rumbling Under Ground" was my first test of my process and I love it! I think it is the use of the white acrylic ink. It is now sitting on my piano.

Originally a manga (graphic novel) by Hayao Miyazaki, this stunning tale became the first movie from the global phenomenon that is Studio Ghibli. The art of Miyazaki, carried through Ghibli, has affected generations of artists, a mycelial network rejuvenating imagination.

Fungi are fascinating, enchanting, an entire kingdom neither animal nor plant—and they are the hidden magic of the world, right under our feet. In Nausicaä, a post-apocalyptic world of poison is slowly being rejuvenated by fungi.

Auf den ersten Blick chaotische, handschriftliche Notizen

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft
of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

For a show at the Jansen Art Center, we were asked to create art inspired by a “flick," so of course, I chose one of my favorite manga, also a movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. This is acrylic ink on watercolor paper and covered my hands in blue and yellow.

Part of a trio titled: "A Rumbling Under the Ground." Acrylic ink on watercolor paper and boy oh boy expect some more because I loved making these! Funny enough, these are similar to the Mood Minis in a class on Sketchbook Revival.
#sketchbookrevival2026 #sketchbookrevival

Another mood mini for #sketchbookrevival2026. This is watercolor on actual watercolor paper plus my newly rediscovered Sailor Dude 55 degree fountain pen and black Emott pen. The caption says: Grabbing into the dark, smoke and mirrors hide growing fear. I will probably ink this some more.

The bottom says, slow down with intention. The top, Whispers in the dark rain down dust in your head.

Mood minis! Sort of. I did both this morning, at the same time. The top is watercolor and while I waited for that to dry I used Tombow dual tips on the bottom. Which actually was also too wet but I didn't super care. For #sketchbookrevival2026

Too real.

A belted galloway cow walking into the mist, towards a bold, unpredictable future.

“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

Oh no! At least it can be fun to compare your old art to your current art, too. ❤️

Bats! Buttercup Festival 3-375

There's also a whole amazing Great Courses series on this. I love this topic.

This looks fascinating.

Ha! What are the chances? 😁 And you too!

Found some old customized stationery from when I was a kid and since I bought my mom's place, the address is accurate again! I had so much stationery in the '90s. Did you have stationery as a kid?

Drawing a potato first thing in the morning for #sketchbookrevival2026. Keeping your eyes open.

Eucalyptus leaves. Painted in indigo for #sketchbookrevival2026
Love how that indigo watercolor flows.

I used to be a tech writer and still find those skills incredibly useful. In this creative career growth collage, I paid homage to that old life with this set of instructions on ... attaching a zipper? And a little scissor image holds it closed!
Full process here: www.domestika.org/en/projects/...

Wobbly drawing of a brick house with a grass roof and stone yard. Clouds in the sky and mountains behind. Drawn using copic multiliner and colored with tombow dual tip brush pens.

Drawn with my left and colored with my right. This was for wobbly houses that Irene Ruby taught in #sketchbookrevival2026. This was fun! And might be something I need to pursue, this left-hand-right-hand idea. That wasn't the class, just my carpal tunnel acting up.

Who can ever decide which purse to use? In this collage, I put a flap of old (like '80s) wallpaper in the shape of a purse over the image of a purse.
Full process here: www.domestika.org/en/projects/...

Look at this wee little book I included on my collage. It was an art piece in a catalog that was divided into eight pieces. Like an 8-part triptych. An octych? Octaptych?
Full process here: www.domestika.org/en/projects/...

Side note: the cover paper and spine paper on these is wrappers from Who Gives a Crap! It works so great. Glued on chip board with Uhu.