All posts by eyespider

17 April 2025

choose your weapons carefully

ALT: ink painting. A gray mountain under a dark purple-blue sky with polkadot stars. And also one big yellow poorly drawn star and a round yellow and red thing that I guess could be a moon. For some reason there’s a sort of vase on top of the mountain, empty but with a coupld of flowers drawn on it that are shedding petals. Under the mountain sits a creature with antennas and claws and snake-like eyes. It’s grasping a thing that looks like an old rooftop antenna. there are a bunch of little red triangles floating around it. I don’t know, that’s just how it came out.

16 April 2025

we live in houses (unfinished)

ALT: line drawing of three characters that seem to be partly buildings. The left-most one (biggest) has two legs, boots with windows, also face windows and a balcony bill like a duck. The middle one is cat-shaped, with a chimney tail, window in its closest ear, and maybe a doorway between its front legs. The right-most one is sort of like a peg or furniture ornament, but with some kind of angular fins coming out of its head, and about 6 legs like smaller pegs, that are each sitting in a bucket. The whole thing is just outlined; if I have time and inclination I might paint in some colors and more details.

15 April 2025

wake up. it’s spring.

ALT – ink painting of two bulbous roots with faces that look sleepy or surly. The one in front also has a hand for some reason, and it’s reaching toward a mushroom. Both of the plant folk have leaves coming up out of their heads like plumes of hair. There’s a blue and gray sky above, and they’re imbedded in earth that has scribbles in it that I guess stand in for the compost and other dirt critters.

12 April 2025

free of the thicket

ALT: acrylic painting, abstract sort-of landscape. The sky and ground layer of the painting is a warm reddish yellow. There’s tangled foliage, dense on the lower left side, somewhat more open in the right, with something vertical growing up, I guess it could be tree trunks. The upper left corner is above all the tangle, and there are two red birds flying up there.

10 April 2025

walking through the garden

ALT: Watercolor background which is mostly an exploration of textures and colors, green foliage, blue and purple shadows, yellow and orange flowers. It’s kind of a bit of lawn with maybe a hedge above and drifts of blooms from the right side. On that ground, as if in a different reality, there are 3 odd calligraphic stick figures, apparently a couple and one more trailing behind. The garden just wanted to be inhabited, I thought.