Digital painting of a young man wearing a hoodie who closes his eyes and exhales smoke through his nostrils, calming the bees around him. The young man and the bees are in shades of red and pink, the smoke is green, and the hoodie and background are purple.

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Here’s the second color version of my Wu Tang-inspired drawing, “Bee Keeping.” Visit my Instagram tomorrow to see a time-lapse video of the creation of the drawing and both color versions.

Smoke calms bees, even killer bees. Or as Inspectah Deck said in “C.R.E.A.M.,” “Though I don’t know why I chose to smoke sess / I guess that’s the time when I’m not depressed.”