fragments from the end of summer
ALT: ink and watercolor doodle. something like the seedhead from a spent flower up top, the wing of an insect perhaps, the butt of a hornet, and a line of yellow ovals – bubbles of pollen? – drifting across.
Shared Gifts – September Artist Trading Cards
ALT: 9 cards, each made with the rubber-stamp image of four skulls, a ribcage across a pair of skeleton hands, and each decorated with rubber-stamps of a heart, a flower, an anchor, a shoe, and a house. The skeleton rubber stamp set was a gift to me. Decorations of leaves were made using a pen nib that was also a gift.
dropping balls
ALT: water-soluble crayon and ink. a blue juggler has one foot way up in the air, one ball in hand (almost), one ball on the grounded foot (almost) and one ball apparently rolling downhill behind them.
yarn spinner
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. a big yellow sun with a sad or pensive face seems to be watching over or listening to some kind of blue watery being who is winding (or unwinding) a ball of red yarn.
hiking trail, glorious day
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. it’s a mountain, very pointy, wrapped loosely in a blue thread, and more tightly in a red one. the background is mostly greens. I did do a hike that was pretty challenging for me this day, and it was really beautiful and satisfying.
can’t catch me
ALT: coloring page, semi-inspired by Peter Max whose art i loved as a child and youngster. there’s a gingerbread man in the middle, and a moon full of owls below, and plants and paisleys taking up the rest of the space. color it with rainbows.
don’t want to think of a name for this one. choose your own.
ALT: crayon drawing. three figures are facing each other in some kind of interaction. the left one and the middle one have arms slightly linked. the right one faces them. they could be taking a walk or playing footsie, hard to tell. the middle one has a birdbeak and the right one has rabbity ears. make of it what you will.
lit sky
ALT: ink and crayon. rolling green-blue hills under a purple sky. two stark while swirls in the sky, and a forest of wavy vertical black lines. the hills are marked with ink lines that have the energy maybe of dancing or running people.
the fields beyond
ALT: crayon and ink, abstract. soft fields of red, yellow and green glow beyond a tangled network of black thick ink, like twisty branches in a dark woods.
winding to center
ALT: ink and watercolor. a ball of red yarn at the bottom right corner, lots of swooping concentric lines with lots of imaginary writing along them, enclose a space that has maybe two people, or maybe it’s just the nose of a cat poking through.
