Labor Day – make a noise
ALT: crayon drawing. Three beings in front of a green hill, one is dancing, one is yelling and carrying a flag, one is holding a sign high. No realism in evidence. Everyone is purple and blue, and the middle one has big boots.
bag of shadows
ALT: big pinkish red bag on a gray-blue background. The bag, I imagine, is lit from within, and shadows are cast of scraggly foliage, a flying bird, something like a dragon head, and maybe a weird shaped log. Actually I went to see “Feral”, a puppet and actor theater thing by Sandglass Theater, and they did something very like this in their production, where a tent-shaped prop became a huge bell skirt for a masked actor, a stage for puppetry, and a screen for shadow work. Brilliant stuff.
hopeful harpy
ALT: crayon drawing, a bird-like person (or person-like bird) swoops in from the upper right corner of the page. Beak and bird-legs are yellow, feathers and hair are blue. Maybe they’re smiling?
f**k it, let’s dance
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. A humanoid, a dog-like, and a bird or bug-like skeletal beings dance by a river in a field of flowers. There might be flames rising in the distance.
weekend vacation
–I’ve been on the road, traveling and visiting. It was great, but I’m pretty happy to be back home and in my artspace.
ALT: crayon drawing of a cartooney personage striding and waving their hands, stepping out in one direction and looking back in the other. Lots of colors and curved shapes.
wind harvest
ALT: crayon drawing. A stalk of grain silhouetted against a pink/purple sun, over blue and yellow fields. A blue-gray arc slices in from the bottom left, and there’s something that might have started out as a pine tree sort of floating beyond it on the left, I’m really not sure what it’s doing there, or what it’s trying to be.
friends a long time.
I just spent the weekend with three people I’ve been friends with since highschool, so 50 years now. This is not a portrait of us really, it’s more like a tribute.
ALT: crayon and ink drawing showing a group of four women. Just faces and torsos, I didn’t draw any hands. The words “Friends a long time” are written diagonally across the page.
waiting in your garden
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. A spring onion supports a butterfly in the upper left corner; a cartooney rabbit critter casts a wary eye toward a sort of spider. Some random lines of pale green triangles provide a sort of structure for the extra space in the drawing.
flock of arcs
ALT: crayon drawing. A swarm of green fish shapes, seen from above, swim through a series of interlaced circles and arcs. The fish actually started out as leaves, that’s probably why they’re green.
hang the night on a janky scaffold
ALT: ink and graphite drawing, abstract. Some fat dark lines structure the page. There are shapes that could be sky, wires, stars and moon on the upper sections, and scribbly lines below that could be the energy of the town’s streets at night. Color is mostly blue, with yellow highlights.
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