Leadership, compassion, vision, truth, conviction.

An amazing time as a Rockies parent - very excited that Aaron is now in our backyard!!! Best of luck to both the Rockies and the Braves going forward!!!

Hikone Castle • Japan Drawn with a vintage 1972 Pilot Myu 701 fountain pen with Iroshizuku Shin Kai ink in a Leuchtturm1917 journal. Having lived in Japan for 3 years growing up - the buildings in this country helped instill my love for architecture at a young age. #hikonecastle #japan

#fountainpenart #house #victorian #architecture #draw #hatch #art #sketch #pencil #pen #fountainpen

Pretty happy with how this sketch turned out! #fourseasons #hotel #budapest #hungary #sketch #draw #pen #ink #fountainpen #art #illustration #architecture #history #artist #hatching #dailysketch #classicalarchitecture

Amazing vertical clock tower in Poland. Proportions, scale, and architectural detail are all just wonderful. #architecture #drawing #sketch #sketching #illustration #art #sketchbook #artist #history

My profound thanks to all of you who supported Merwyn, as I stumbled through Inktober 2025 Using children’s books to help paint this year’s story was a great fit for work I try to share on line - creative, interesting, artistic, and positive. Thanks again… till we meet again!! 🐭

ktober 2025 • day 31 • AWARD The award to Peppa Was gold that day “We all win!” said Merwyn “As long as we play!” 🐭 #award #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 30 • VACANT If you give a mouse a cookie He’ll fill the vacant place That lies within his tummy Below his smiling face. 🐭 #vacant #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 29 • LESSON Merwyn looked through The window and saw Madeline saying ‘Be kind to all!!’ 🐭 #lesson #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 28 • SKELETAL Merwyn met A skeleton Now he has A super friend. 🐭 #skeletal #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 27 • ONION To assist the onion’s Great escape Merwyn must first Put on his cape. 🐭 #onion #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 25 • INFERNO The Fire Cat yelled ‘Sound the alarm!’ ‘We can’t let the inferno Do much harm!!’ 🐭 #inferno #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #pen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 24 • ROWDY Merwyn said ‘Look deep in your heart’ Max proclaimed ‘Let the rumpus start!’ 🐭 #rowdy #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 23 • FIREFLY Gus and Sam Play through the night As Merwyn can see By firefly light. 🐭 #firefly #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 22 • BUTTON Corduroy’s pants A button they missed Merwyn searched And said ‘Hey, what’s this?’. 🐭 #button #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 21 • BLAST Curious George A blast into space To fly around stars Makes Merwyn chase. 🐭 #blast #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 20 • RIVALS Some sneetches have stars Some other have not To bring them together Is Merwyn’s great plot. 🐭 #rivals #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 19 • ARCTIC Polar bear, polar bear What do you hear I hear a mouse whisper In my ear. 🐭 #arctic #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 18 • DEAL All his caps The monkeys steal To get them back The man must deal. 🐭 #deal #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 17 • ORNATE To see Oz, The five friends strode Until they reached The ornate abode. 🐭 #ornate #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 16 • BLUNDER With the honey pot On top of Pooh Tigger’s blunder Left Merwyn blue. 🐭 #blunder #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 15 • RAGGED Raggedy Ann And Andy found Their small mouse friend Just hangs around. 🐭 #ragged #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 14 • TRUNK The trunk, the fruit The pretty leaves Soon nothing’s left And Merwyn grieves. 🐭 #trunk #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 13 • DRINK Alice’s bottle The tag it said ‘drink,’ Merwyn said ‘stop, If you do you will shrink!’. 🐭 #drink #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 12 • SHREDDED Popeye is shredded For days upon days, On an arm full of muscles Is where Merwyn plays. 🐭 #shredded #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 11 • STING Bees sometimes sting Not to be mean Merwyn floats away Not to be seen. 🐭 #sting #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 10 • SWEEP Dinosaurs sweep And tidy their room Merwyn makes way And out comes the broom. 🐭 #sweep #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 9 • HEAVY Clifford is big And heavy at that Merwyn stacks books To give him a pat. 🐭 #heavy #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challenge #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 8 • RECKLESS Reckless at heart Yet safe all the way Merwyn and Ralph Rode all through the day. 🐭 #reckless #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 7 • STARFISH Hugo and Merwyn Swim deep in the sea With friends all around They play happily. 🐭 #starfish #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 6 • PIERCE The archer named Robin Practiced great aim Piercing the target Brought fanclubs and fame. 🐭 #pierce #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 5 • DEER Bambi the deer Would roam all about To find forest creatures He’d whisper, not shout. 🐭 #deer #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 4 • MURKY Pigeon was dirty, A bath Merwyn drew Soon he shone brightly Like fresh morning dew. 🐭 #murky #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 3 • CROWN Babar moves In suit and crown At Merwyn’s side Around the town. 🐭 #crown #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 2 • WEAVE Charlotte’s web She’d nightly weave In the corners of The building’s eve. 🐭 #weave #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Inktober 2025 • day 1 • MUSTACHE Merwyn respects a man with panache Especially The Lorax with a groovy mustache. 🐭 #mustache #inktober2025 #inktober #merwyn #merwynthemouse #sketch #challange #napkinsketch #fountainpen #mouse

Here is your invitation - Inktober 2025!! Merwyn the Mouse will be exploring daily word prompts along side the wonderfully imaginative characters of 31 different children’s books. M🐭 #inktober #inktober2025 #merwynthemouse #mouse #napkin #sketch #napkinsketch #pen #ink #drawing #fountainpen

Join me as I bring Merwyn the Mouse to life for the 2025 Inktober Sketch Challenge. 31 days of sketching and posting pre determined ‘prompts’ form the official Inktober website. Cheers, 🐭

Haven’t posted a sketch in a while - fun to try some contour hatching.

Yep…it’s that time of year again… The College Football Tree of Greatness is back!!! WAR CORN!!! 🌽🔴⚪️🌽

DBacks are in two for four.

Sketchbook day - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Pierre Cuypers, architect) 1885 pen • platinum preppy EF02 fountain ink • iroshizuku take sumi surface • leuchtturm1917 journal #amsterdam #rijksmuseum #architecture #icon #fountainpen #sketch #drawing #pen #ink #art

Scaled pencil base drawing of St Paul’s Cathedral - London, England. Such an amazing drawing - inking to follow. #stpaulscathedral #stpauls #architecure #pencil #pencilsketches #drawing #scale #proportion

My sketch of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fricke House in Oak Park. I drew this when I was there in May and was blown away by the amazing geometrical forms throughout the exterior. #FLW #architecture #landmark #sketch #drawing #oakpark #prairiestyle #amazing

My humble sketch of legendary jazz drummer Buddy Rich. #jazz #drums #buddyrich #legend #pencil #sketch

Would love someone to tell me how my day could get any better!!! 🤘🤘 #nowspinning #vinyl #vinylsky #blueskymisic #music #album #rush

From last night - love that the 3B coach starts walking to his dugout well before Aaron gets the ball.

My recent sketch of Unity Temple (Oak Park, IL) by Frank Lloyd Wright. An amazing structure!!!! #unitytemple #flw #franklloydwright #architecture #church #urbansketch #urbansketchers #fountainpen

Caught the Rox v Cubs game on a perfect day in Chicago. Aaron was not in this game, giving me the chance to sketch ‘Wrigley Cathedral.’ Loved sharing the drawing of his workplace with him after the game - definitely holy baseball grounds! #wrigley #wrigleyfield #chicago #mlb #baseball #sketching