European Sketches - Volume 1

While traveling through Rome, England, and Wales in early 2020 before the pandemic, I sketched and inked various compositions while traveling on the trains and buses. Each of the images in this first volume was 3.5 x 5.5 inches in size and cut out from a small Moleskine sketchbook.

"SantAngelo" is named after the eponymous bridge near Vatican City in Rome. A colorful character stares you down while loosely biting an unlit cigarette. It's probably just a candy cigarette. Don't smoke kids.

"Tormentors" reveals the plight of purple agitators who wish to bother a perturbed man wearing a blue onesie.

"Consoling the Beast" shows what I like to believe is the triune Morrigan and Crom Cruach giving each other some much needed understanding. Perhaps they are not mythic monsters after all and have merely been mistreated because of their appearance coupled with rumors.

"Aquatic" is a depiction of a strange, undersea beast traversing a dark reef.

"The Man of Corn and Stone" is as he appears to be.

"Some Dude" is an enthusiastic, bespectacled individual floating amongst a slew of mystical bubbles.