pair o’ tykes
ALT: graphite and crayon drawing of two toddlers. One is standing, in profile, with one hand on the head of the other, who sits grinning and facing you. Sketch taken from a couple favorite photos of my sons when they were but wee things.
minding the tender shoot
ALT: crayon drawing. A person hovering low over a seed with a little root and three green leaves. They’re just observing, not doing any actions, but I tried to show a certain tenderness in their gaze.
there’s no going back – there never was.
ALT: imaginary landscape in water-soluble crayon, orange/gold and violet. Watery stuff in the foreground, misty gold fields in the middle distance, tall peaks on the horizon, under a purple sky.
S-curve
ALT: crayon drawing of a heron, neck bent in an ess shape, standing in water in a marsh. It’s not very realistic.
dancing in a very small space
ALT: crayon drawing of a person absolutely squished into the confines of the page but still smiling and making a dancerly gesture
concrete toebeans
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. Could be a pile of rocks, mostly green and purple, set against a peach colored sky.
time spiral
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. a spiral shape, connected with a reflection below so that it forms a sort of cylinder-scroll, colored purple and pale green. There’s calligraphic imaginary writing on the upper edge of the scroll. The right side of the page has a vertical border like mosaic or stained glass.
the tiny bells that ring out the summer
ALT: crayon and ink drawing of a cricket in the grass, under a full moon. the cricket song is represented by series of dots streaming up to the sky.
I put on my happy hat
ALT: crayon drawing of a big yellow hat with a bright flower and purple band around the crown. I have a hat like that, and wore it to the outdoor concert I went to this evening.
a sheaf of summer
ALT: crayon drawing of a little bundle of grassy plants under a crescent moon, with a swirly pastel background of orange, pink and blue.
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