ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon drawing of a goofy fox-like critter with enormous ears, a floofy tail, and a grin. sitting under a tree, I guess.
12 May 2026
10 May 2026
2026 collage #5, still mining that Bosch painting for hands, monsters, and general vibe
ALT: magazine picture collage featuring parts of a Hieronymus Bosch painting, some animals from National Geographic magazine, and a nun oddly raising a knife towards the clouds in a painted sky.
9 May 2026
join
ALT: acrylic painting. two stylized purple figures follow each other as if dancing, across an abstracted landscape of blue and green hills, under a red sky with two suns.
8 May 2026
stardance
ALT: water soluble crayon, decorative abstract of a person in blue dress dancing between a star and crescent moon, no ground to be seen.
7 May 2026
I did not make a drawing this day. Instead I’ll show you what was going on in my workspaces, some days lately I let this be enough to allow a holiday from the dailies.
One more collage emerging, I think this might be the last one for this year. It has quite a way to go, but I do like the nun with flower angel wings and knife upraised into the painted sky. And I’ve mined the backdrop Bosch painting for years, I don’t even remember where I got the original from. The animals are from a National Geographic article about someone documenting endangered wildlife in gorgeous portrait photos.
when I got tired of that I did this:
neither project arrived at a state of completion before I was ready to retire for the evening. hopefully seeing some of the process will enhance your enjoyment of the eventually completed pieces!
6 May 2026
2026 collage #4, maybe finished.
ALT: magazine picture collage featuring a reclining nude lady and a resurrected Christ, on a backdrop of stonework and macroscopically photographed jellyfish. It’s very red and brown.
5 May 2026
springs
ALT: crayon drawing with a cluster of fiddleheads rising from dead leaves, superimposed on several spiral shapes floating on the page, all the coiled potential energy of the season
4 May 2026
hankies up, it’s May
ALT: water-soluble graphite and crayon. two stylized figures dance facing each other, arms upraised.
Just came from watching friends of mine Morris dancing down by the closed bridge and the railroad tracks. followed by some singing and storytelling and general socializing to round out the day.
3 May 2026
coil
ALT: water-soluble crayon, decorative abstract. two fat spiral shapes lean back to back, purple green and blue with orang-red accents, contrast with brown and black at the edges. pretty swirls, I was thinking of sea cucumbers, shells and such.
2 May 2026
monkey rat dancing
ALT: water-soluble graphite and crayon. It’s more or less a gray squirrel, on tippytoes, on a branch, with its tail high up in the air and a very slight smile on its face.
I had spent some time at daybreak on May Day morning watching a squirrel collect branches to build a nest in a maple tree, such wonderfully athletic acrobats.
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