Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping

Title: Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: Magic Realism

This is an allegory about how it's easier to remain comfortably asleep instead of waking to face the challenges that courage and wisdom have to offer. It's a study for a larger painting.

Wisdom Cometh

"Wisdom Cometh" 3rd in my Monster series. The Monster is the reptilian brain, which has its own charm but doesn't always make the right decisions. The Owl represents the coming of wisdom. The two have got to make friends with each other.

Acrylic on wood panel
5x5 inches  -- it's tiny!

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Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom

Acrylic

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Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom

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"Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom Having a Chat"

Ink and watercolor on 5x7 cold press 140# paper.

Fantasy genre. 

I started out this painting in acrylics, but those birds wouldn't fly, so I redid it in ink and watercolor and it worked out to my satisfaction. From now on I'm asking the painting what medium it wants to be done in (I am serious). 

I used a halfway dried up black Pitt pen to ink it. Pitt pens are archival and have India ink and can be used all the way until the ink no longer runs. When it's halfway dried up, it makes this very soft line like a pencil line, especially on a toothy paper. You can even do gray, subtle shading with a halfway dried marker pen.

Can you guess which bird is which?