This time, no sketch in the usual black, but a nice brown color. When I was teaching in Los Angeles a few years ago, I bought a whole number of pigment liners, in a variety of colors. I never used these brown microns until now and I think they give something extra to the drawing. As you can notice, they are the very fine ones, the 0,05 series.

I love everything vintage, especially the 1950s style. This drawing makes me think of a book I read a few years ago: 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid"  by one of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson. In this memoir he re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s. For this drawing I used my Posca pens and colored pencils. 

A few years ago, I made this spread in my big Moleskin sketchbook. These are all excerpts from a wonderful diary that my maternal grandfather left us. I picked some fragments to write down about him going to America with his family when he was only 17, but also about his experiences  during WW I when he  just returned from there. 

Now I'm working on a new concertina book about this America adventure, rearranging the fragments into another size of paper and leaving out the war-section. I added a small family tree for better understanding.

I like to draw plants in a medieval way ánd I love this poem from Edwin Morgan about strawberries. And so, the two came together in my sketchbook. Don't know if I'm going to add some colors or not, what do you think?
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I started a new pattern journal on June the 20th 2022 after having finished 2 other journals. It is a challenge to invent over and over new patterns. In my first two books I used only 2 colors, yellow and black and orange and black. Here I try to use 3 colors, grey, orange and apricot, not always possible as you can see!

This cute little Chinese doll in kimono has always been on the shelf in my bedroom since I was a child. Drawing it was the best way to try out my new Posca pens. I choose some matching colors and here we are, a new page in my sketchbook!

Two pages in my sketchbook. I have been re-working a stamps collection and chose for a limited color palette of 3 colors: orange, blue and light blue. I'm inspired by existing stamps but don't copy them. Some details are left out, certain fonts are adjusted and, anyhow, colors are customized. For orange and blue I used fine microns, light blue is executed in colored pencil.