This evening I wasn’t sure what I was going to do but I knew I didn’t want to do anything too complex.  As I was putting my daughter to bed I thought of a friend of mine, Jonathan St. Amant.  He is a teacher and an artist and he is really quite skilled.  His creativity is boundless.  I’m super envious of his cartooning abilities.  Most of his artwork takes place in a fictitious world of his own creation.  He has a series of pieces which take place in a world called Nowhereland.  It’s a place inhabited by ninjas, uber-masculine robots called Bro-bots, giant sloth creatures and sexy faun women.  His latest imaginary world is called “Shelby and the Blooms”.  Shelby is a slug who when she recedes into her shell enters into a fantastical world.

Anyways, because he is a teacher, he has a bunch of youtube videos that he does to help inspire his kids.  One of them is this watercolor experiment that I did this evening.  The rules are, first, you make a grouping of random blobs on a page with watercolor paint.  Once the paint is dried you label each of the blobs some kind of category or object.  Then, you take a pen and try to draw each of those objects attempting to stay within the random blob of watercolor paint.

To make it extra challenging, I had my wife Jenny come up with all the labels without looking.  She came up with some pretty unique things.  The Aeonium was a lucky break.  That one just happened to fit the blob it ended up on.  The toughest one was the Dune Buggy.  I also forgot that I was left-handed and accidentally smudged up my banana slug.  Oh well.

Check out Jonathan’s video below.