One of my favorite programs to watch is The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. A few years ago I came across the Bob Ross Twitch channel where they stream The Joy of Painting non-stop all weekend long, every weekend. I would watch it whenever I was home and during the weekdays, I would just watch the full-length episodes on YouTube. I’ve wanted to give the painting method that Bob taught so many people a shot, but haven’t had the chance yet. So, I went with the next best thing, I tried it digitally…sort of. Using my iPad, I made this.

This artwork stems from my love of Halloween and Horror. It’s a design that began with what used to formerly be my logo when I first graduated college with my degree in Graphic Design | Media Arts. Over the years, I have since updated my logo in an effort to fit my wide array of works, but still love my old logo, so I repurposed it. It was around the time of the first It movie release that I decided to use the Pennywise face paint as inspiration, mostly the smile. Since then, this design has certainly been one of my favorites and I’ve added it to a lot of products now available in my online store.

While in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I purchased a stuffed moose. One day while in our RV, I had the urge to draw something using my iPad and the stuffed moose was sitting on the table next to me. I took a look and just began to draw. What came from it was unexpected. This character illustration turned out to be very cute and only the beginning of my illustrations.