Halloween is a summer away, but any time of year is a good time for me to celebrate two of my favorite things: owls and the Moon. This is a long running series that I return to when I feel like it. I recently took note of the boxes of Prismacolor pencils in my studio closet that hadn’t been touched in years and thought why not? There are less used colors in there from high school (cringe).

While I obviously took a lot of artistic liberty with it, this mixed media piece was inspired by an actual owl encounter in Tecolote Canyon. If you live in San Diego, you may know that this lovely park is on the other side of the 5 from Mission Bay and Sea World. I plan on paying a pair there a visit today and seeing if I can’t find an owlet or two. They were definitely nesting when this male eyed me sternly.