We're All Just Walking Each Other Home | (2020) 30" x 44"

(2020) 30" x 44" Ink and watercolor illustration on cold press watercolor paper with gold leaf embellishment. Float mounted in a custom cut maple frame set behind museum quality clear acrylic.    I'm beyond excited to share this piece with you. I began thinking about it back in summer 2019 and started on it last winter. I aimed to finish by spring, however when the world shut down it became a rare opportunity to really sink my teeth into this creation. It served as a de facto time capsule: the multicolored background carries hues of California's many 2020 skies, from early pandemic clear to ash covered, The Orange Day to regular 'ole smoggy sunsets. Its concept felt worthwhile at the onset and grew more timely as the year's events unfolded; this piece was an exploration of the relationship between cooperation, abundance, and shared prosperity. Through countless hours of India ink pen strokes in the tundra wolf's fur and the raven's wings, layer upon layer of watercolor, research, obser