sending star
ALT: crayon drawing of a personage in purple, arms uplifted below a 5-pointed rainbow colored star. The star has a rainbow trail set in yellow glow that swoops down to engulf the person. Or maybe it swoops upward.
12 August 2026
11 August 2026
cower
ALT: water soluble graphite, crayon. doodle of a small purple being with big eye looking anxiously up at a bare tree that seems to loom over it.
10 August 2026
Does anyone remember those little round Springbok puzzles from the early ’70’s maybe? with cheerful pop art and often odd beings and flowers? I think they permanently imprinted on my aesthetic sense.
ALT: decorative drawing in ink and crayon, some swirly lines surrounded by little flowers.
9 August 2026
fish fight
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon drawing where a golden eel and a blue fish circle round each other warily. the fish’s tail is kicking up some sand, and there’s a plant that the eel is weaving around. the sand is purple, in case that matters to you.
8 August 2026
hearts entwined
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. loose sketch of three people standing, apparently holding each other by the little red valentine heart
7 August 2026
mad mouse
ALT: crayon doodle of something that looks like a blue mouse wearing maybe a helmet and goggles, bearing a dainty flower in its mouth, and maybe sitting on a bongo board or something.
6 August 2026
“Studio Scraps” – August Artist Trading Cards
ALT: 12 small rectangular cards, each made from paper used to clean brushes, test colors, or take notes. Each has a large circle of gold and a smaller one of silver, and a couple bits of collaged tissue paper on it.
5 August 2026
eyes closed
ALT: crayon, ink, acrylic. this was literally a memory of what I saw with eyes closed, the network of little veins. the colors aren’t as bright as I wanted, but it was dark shot through with red and orange, with bright blue-green in the between spaces.
4 August 2026
bookkeeping day
ALT: crayon, ink and acrylic paint, abstract but full of numbers. and some moths, and dots. angular wide black lines weave through a thicket of numerals, mostly in shades of green. I had a long day, full of numbers.
3 Aug 2026
ALT: watercolor and ink, abstract. another tangle, with primary color splotches ground, woven over with black and white ink lines in a rather tangled mess.
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