When I grow UP: Space Ranger

Colored pencil, marker, watercolor, fine liner pen, and digital

19” x 15”

What do you want to be when you grow up? When I posed that question to my five year-old brother, he rambled with limitless possibilities. It seems as we get older, those fantastical dreams dull into conventional and limited thinking. This piece reminds us that although we often suffocate our inspirational dreams, perhaps we can rediscover the child within us that revives our abounding hope.

2023 Colorado Scholastic Awards Gold Key