Sketchbook Dump #1

Watercolor drawings of a teddy bear, a house in the woods, a sad-looking electric guitar, and more

Welcome back to The Little Island🏝️, a clod of dirt in an imaginary ocean where I go to write songs, draw, and dream up wacky tales for my kids’ bedtime stories.

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Charlie at work on The Little Island

The Little Island Substack has been quiet for several months, but behind the scenes I have been laying the groundwork for some new music, storytelling, and drawing projects.

I will share more about these projects in the coming weeks, but for now here is the first post in a new (occasional) series featuring scanned watercolor drawings from my sketchbook.

This initial “sketchbook dump” loosely adheres a domestic theme — there’s a teddy bear, a fishbowl, a sad-looking (shall we say “vintage”?) electric guitar, a gray cat, and a miniature landscape of a house on a wooded mountain.

My hope is that these imperfect, hand-crafted artifacts will brighten your day in some small way.

A Teddy Bear

Watercolor illustration of a teddy bear by Charlie Shifflett

A Fishbowl

Watercolor illustration of a fishbowl by Charlie Shifflett

An Electric Guitar

Watercolor illustration of a sad-looking electric guitar by Charlie Shifflett

A Gray Cat

Watercolor illustration of a cat by Charlie Shifflett

A House in the Woods

Thank you for staying with me — there’s a lot more to come!