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Published: 2019-03-01 17:51:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 6794; Favourites: 416; Downloads: 30
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Description A bit of personal artwork done inspired by a recent trip to visit my good friends  foxfeather  and  Mbala  in Minnesota. Chasing emus in feels like -60F (Literally colder than Antarctica!) temperatures was just one of the fun adventures we got up to (I also learned I am hopeless at skiing and dang it is cold in Minnesota!). Among the other reasons for going was to set out a gameplan for a Kickstarter campaign for our the SECOND Volume of our Travel Field journal (The first was Dry Season Only!) .

I drew a slew on the visit including pin concepts for the Kickstarter and...well a lot more. Among these inspired scribblings was a thumbnail for this piece. It is rarer for me to see a color palette in my head clearly but sometimes a piece just screams it. Im glad I had time to do this illustration while the campaign is live. Im so curious to see how my ideas of the wondrous places we may see will change once I actually live those moments. I felt it an important personal marker to paint something from myself before the trip for just this reason.

I hope you enjoy it!

Please don't forget to check out our Kickstarter for more information and to see all the AMAZING people whom I will be joining on this adventure. We are so near our Goal and are..itccchiiing to do some stretchgoals!

Creative Sojourn Volume 2 on Kickstarter
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Comments: 15

Meg-James [2019-03-20 20:05:39 +0000 UTC]

Oh geez I love how geometric this is!!

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ShadowWhisker1 [2019-03-08 04:10:08 +0000 UTC]

I like the stylization. (Is that a word?)

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BeastRedAsh In reply to ShadowWhisker1 [2019-03-10 11:21:17 +0000 UTC]

I think the green in the sky is not a word, but just an aurora polaris

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ShadowWhisker1 In reply to BeastRedAsh [2019-03-12 00:37:33 +0000 UTC]

Coolz thanks!

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EmmaEsme [2019-03-05 04:51:49 +0000 UTC]

This is so incredibly different than what I remember usually seeing from you. It's gorgeous too!

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ThePaintedDogg [2019-03-04 19:51:16 +0000 UTC]

I love your creativity. This is so beautiful! 

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sandyrinky [2019-03-03 20:56:31 +0000 UTC]

That's my home state I'm glad you had a good time, even if it was freezing!

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Honor-ra [2019-03-02 06:24:18 +0000 UTC]

A neat quirky bit of art.  Loverly colours.

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JustANormalWeirdo [2019-03-02 04:21:08 +0000 UTC]

HOLY-
This looks amazing!

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rachaelm5 [2019-03-02 03:18:44 +0000 UTC]

A beautiful and unusual piece!  The sky, in particular, fascinates me.  Aurora, alien writing, technical bits reminiscent of a circuit board - I love it.

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MojoCat96 [2019-03-02 00:50:38 +0000 UTC]

This is fantastic!

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derpberd [2019-03-01 20:47:28 +0000 UTC]

Balaa!!!!  I'm digging this super trippy style.

Good luck with the Kickstarter.  It looks so pro and fantastical.  You're so close to hitting goal too.  I wish I could help, but I am definitely rooting for you.

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UDtheAesir [2019-03-01 19:44:26 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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mecengineer [2019-03-01 19:35:51 +0000 UTC]

beautiful

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Jahpan [2019-03-01 18:26:24 +0000 UTC]

Whoa this is awesome if you ever do prints of this i would love one sometime

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