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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
pilings
ALT: four stout but somewhat bent and leaning posts stick up out of water. A stream of spots float on the water like petals and then up into the sky to disappear in the clouds.
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