Well, it’s the end of my month off from the dailies, and I kind of missed them. But I’ve been busy making other art, never fear! I made a ridiculous number of little collages in the past week, which I will share with you here.
The two above are on 9″ x 12″ paper. I love how collage can engage playful intuition. I work on several at the same time, and think that I’m just responding to line and color, but then often find that they have drawn forth a little story or vignette.
This and the ones that follow are all smaller, about 4″ x 5″. They feel like curious little peeks into dreams or half-baked ideas.
I hope you found these enjoyable. I return to daily drawings tomorrow, if all goes as planned! Happy March!
February break continues. I’m not even painting lately, because it’s time for the February collage break. I should be able to post a few of those soon, they’re still in progress.
Meanwhile, here’s another character from the family DnD game. Meet Gertie Sable, a rock gnome with magical abilities. She’s irrepressibly curious and outgoing, and stowed away on the ill-fated voyage with the help of Demanda, who saw her as a potential friend and willing minion.
I really don’t enjoy making art digitally; I already spend too much time sitting at a computer. But for these game tokens, I’ve started filling in the backgrounds with fast and crappy digital brushwork. It’s possible I’ll learn how to use some of these tools just out of convenience!
The original post of this one was 30 July 2020. I think I’m finished with it, but not completely sure. Anyway, done enough to show and put aside for now.
The original post was 8 November 2020. Fire dancing. Our little fire pit is now buried in snow, with more on the way. But the sun is already stronger, and the days are getting longer in leaps and bounds!
In the absence of daily drawings, here’s a sample of what I’ve been playing with. These are portraits of characters in my current Dungeons and Dragons campaign. The above, Balance, is a Tiefling mercenary. Below, my character Demanda Cooper, a half orc barbarian, raised by her human mother who was determined that she would be a proper society lady.
There are a lot of people making great renderings of DnD characters, I am rather in awe of the art that’s out there. I present my efforts in the spirit of humble amusement.
The original post was 8 September 2020. In this case, I think the extra work didn’t necessarily improve the painting, but it got me to where I’m ok with letting it go.
I posted the original version of this as 8&9 July 2020, a line drawing doodle. Couldn’t figure out where it was trying to go for a long time. Still not sure what’s up with it, but I’m OK being done with it now.
Original post was 28 December 2020. I finished another one! It really feels good to be taking the time to keep working on paintings that I didn’t feel done with.
Update 4/11/21: I guess I wasn’t really done. See 11 April 2021 for yet another revision, although I’m not sure I went the right direction. Maybe I’ll just have to start over again another day.
It’s actually an update of 13 September 2020, you can go into the archive to see what it looked like when I originally posted it.
I am painting every day still, but it is taking some time to finish things out to my satisfaction. But it’s interesting to me to see what happens when I take the time to push them further. Where is the line between ‘done’ and ‘overworked’? The line between ‘fresh’ and ‘lazy’?
Oh and I’m taking studio time to also do non-painting projects. Maybe I’ll post some of those on the days between finished paintings…stand by!
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