story time
ALT: acrylic painting. Blue background, a sort of jackalope seems to be holiding court while two other personages pay happy attention. One is sort of humanoid, the other is more like a frog or lizard.
25 September 2025
Category Archives: acrylic
24 September 2025
deeep
here it is again, now with eel and jellyfish. Not sure I’m interested enough to push this one further, at least for now.
ALT: acrylic painting. watery blue swirls on a black background. there is indeed a jellyfish floating behind a sort of seahorse-merperson, and also an eel sort of thing. Some lines of calligraphic marks that could be imaginary writing or bubbles, and some dots that remind me of markings on shells/
23 September 2025
untitled (in progress)
ALT: acrylic painting, blue on black background. spiralling swirls of blue rise upward, there’s a trail of imaginary writing floating bottom to top. There’s some kind of seahorse/merperson creature in the midst of it all. I’m not sure where this will end up, but it’s not finished.
14 September 2025
at its foundation there was always the dance
ALT: mixed media (acrylic, ink, crayon), abstract. There is a lot of imaginary writing, in black, gold, and red, drifting in lines across the page in all directions. There is some transparent blue, purple, green light shining through in the spaces between. You could maybe see a pair of stick figure dancing in the black and white lines. They echo the original compositional lines that I laid down when I started this one.
13 September 2025
under
ALT: acrylic and crayon. It looks like a grumpy tortoise parked beneath a pile of boulders. Not clear if they’re balanced on its shell, or suspended above it. The whole picture is in various grays, the tortoise thing has some muted yellows that distinguish it from the rocks. And yes, I’m trying to do more than I’m really capable of, and I’m dropping balls, and I don’t like it.
8 September 2025
norns
Alt: acrylic and crayon drawing, abstract. You could see three figures passing along a red thread, from spindle to shears. Green on the left, red-orange at center, purple on the right (yes, I was raised in the culture that reads from left to right on the page, and I did not think about that compositional idiom until just now)
5 September 2025
tubby stickleback bird
ALT: acrylic and crayon drawing featuring a red bird-like creature, as described in the caption. It has some blue feather details, and a very large eyeball.
8 August 2025
cat quarters
ALT: acrylic painting. Four cats, three of them stencils and one the stencil template, positioned roughly in a square, with lots of spirals and dots and action lines around them.
14 April 2025
birthday blues
ALT: acrylic painting of an orange vase with a sad face on it, holding some wilting flowers that seem to have already shed some petals. The background has a light blue orb, I have no idea what that’s about, maybe a window or clear open space. Around the bottom, left, and top edges is a bunch of calligraphic writing in an imaginary alphabet.
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.
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