This is my stack of sketchbooks I'm taking with me to Africa! I'm gonna draw so freaking much. The top one is actually a Kickstarter reward from a sketchbook campaign!

You should look at our Kickstarter, because what started as a slim volume has become a weighty tome of extra-ordinary talent: https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....rney-to-africa

An excerpt from the Kickstarter as to why travel is important:

"Travel power levels us. It fills us to the brim with exciting new things and we rocket back to our studios TO MAKE THINGS with flames bursting from our hands. Travel and experience makes it personal, and it makes it powerful.

In addition to the trip, our group itself is a treasure. It consists of visual artists, writers, and creative types; we resonate off one another. We all have quirky interests in the unusual, commonly screaming at moss or losing our minds over a dusty rock. See how that twig lays just so. That’s what we do. We then transform the seemingly inane, and merge it with awe inspiring subjects such as the lions and leopards, and out comes something unique.

We are going to fill our sketchbooks and notepads full to bursting with adventures, sketches, notes, and mysterious stains that remind us of this magical time for years to come, as centuries of wildlife and fantasy artists before us have done. Here we can join in an adventure that will inform and expand our artistic horizons in a way that few other experiences in our lives will. And we invite you to join us on that journey."

PS we will be over three to five thousand miles away from ISIS ebola whatever. Africa is an enormous continent!

PSS that is an african pied crow skull, an ammonite, and one of my orchids, a Vanda.