An Eighth Shot of Espresso: Coffee and Creativity on Mum's Third Shift

A haiga is a haiku paired with visual drawing. It's usually a painting or a drawing, but it can also be a photograph, collage or digital image. pastel on black paper, 2019 Faithful companion you have crossed the rainbow bridge wave from other side

    Quite disturbing yet in a cartoon-like way stands with its hands on its articulated hips doesn't seem threatening at all but everyone forgets the scorpion might be small but the poison sting is in its tail. 

Thirty years old I picked up a pencil only spare doodles as the baby slept. I picked up a paintbrush mixed paints Those early canvases were hardly masterpieces done between play dates and kindergarten antics. Now fifty one pencils at the ready drawing characters while the kids are at school. Paintbrushes worn hues dried on the palette The recent canvases still reflect my mind done between crises and midlife musings.