This and the following seven posts are impromptu watercolors along a line I’ve been thinking of for the last year or more. These are definitely meant to be whimsical… cartoonish. These represent a return to or revisiting of the type of drawings I did when I was in Jr. High and High School in Africa. My art teacher gave us a list of daily scenarios in Liberian village life to draw on. One was “Making Fire.” There must be more to it than I realized, because when I drew a quick cartoon of two women in tie-dyed lappas and head ties, one holding out a lit match to a wood pile, he just laughed. For some reason that has stuck with me.