I'm taking a weird approach to my doodles lately -- I want to release them into the wild! So for the next month, I'm taking a lot of my experiments and small doodles (4 x 5.5 inches or smaller) and just leaving them around town wherever I go. If I get a cup of chai, I'll drop a hand-drawn postcard on the table when I leave. When I go out to lunch on Fridays with my family, I'll leave an ATC where someone can find it.

I want to GIVE art to the world. I have to start with my little town first!

If you've been lucky enough to find one of my art pices so far, congratulations! It's not fabulous like winning the lottery or anything, but I do hope it at least brought a smile to your face. That alone is the price I want for my little doodles -- knowing that somewhere out there, someone's day got a tiny bit brighter because of something I did.

If you would like, leave a comment or email me a "happy found art" picture of yourself so I can add it to the gallery!

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Double Happiness



I made this for my bedroom wall, which just happens to correspond to the Love gua corner of the room. It's also quite beneficial that my bedroom IS the Love Gua of the house. It took less than three months of it hanging on this wall in this room for me to meet my fiance. The power of belief, the power of feng shui, or the power of art? Who can say?

Mt. Kill-a-Moon



This one's just a fiery rendition of Mount Kilimanjaro. I was tired of seeing only blue versions out there. I wanted a red version.

These are the 5" x 7" mini-paintings I donated for the Art Anonymous project in June.

The first one, 'Wild Sisters,' was one of those "happy accidents," as Bob Ross calls them. It started as a palette knife painting, but I had a CD on in the background (I don't even remember which one) and an accidental synaesthetic image dropped onto the canvas. The first crow was unmistakable, so I added the red and the gold crows on either side.



The second one, 'Luminary - Synaesthetic 1', was a result of working while watching my favorite show in the world, 'Millennium.' It was the episode 'Luminary,' the one where the kid disappears into the wilds of Alaska and Frank has to go off and search for him without the Group's help. The music alone to the episode was probably one of the best scores Mark Snow composed for the entire series, and this little mini-painting shows part of the visuals I get from the music. You can't tell in the small/medium sizes on Flickr, but the large image shows the metallic golds and copper much better. It's unusual for music to produce a metallic color with my synaesthesia, but violins and cellos usually cause a sheen to seep through.