Sinnamin challenged me to illustrate her cute tiny story, "The Scared Cloud". Here is what I came up with! I hope you like it Sinnamin!

There is something that thrills me about letting a balloon go out of my hand & watching it float out of sight. I think what thrills me is the independence of that balloon, soaring at will, with no weight to this earth.

 pencil & pastels & fine tip sharpie.

If for some godforsaken reason you have not read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" ... read it so you know the inspiration for this painting.

This was done with charcoal pencils and watercolors.

They traded their haunting for hugging, their "boo"s for brotherly love.