shield

ALT: crayon and ink. a heron-like bird, looking downward so that body shape appears a compact ovoid. mostly orange background, and spiky blue feathers.

eyes of the storm

ALT: water-soluble crayon, ink. it is a pair of dark eyes set in blue and purple clouds, over a field of green leaves. in reality, there is very little green under the foot of new snow where I live. but the green lives on in slumber.

pas de rage

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon, abstract, calligraphic. on a ground of blue-green wash with orange veins, two figures are scribbled in ink. maybe dancing, maybe marching.

see of green

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon, abstract. watery washes of green tinged with yellow and blue and a little purple, overlaid with a swirling tracery of black lines. I have reached the point in the cold months where I want little respites of getting lost in green.

necessary repose

ALT: water-soluble crayon and ink. An abstracted figure lies meltingly on the ground with a red, somewhat oppressive cloud cover above like a weighted blanket hovering and maybe looming.

civil discourse

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon, abstract calligraphic. it’s lots of people drawn as sort of stick figures, upside-down and upside-right (as my children used to say). they may be communicating, but it all looks pretty spiky and messy.

baking for comfort in a time of stress

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon, abstract. but it seems to show a sun in a box like an oven, maybe viewed through a window framed by a dead tree and a living vine. the colors are mainly warm yellows and oranges, so very optimistical.

webbing

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. it’s an orange capped mushroom, quite vibrant, embedded in a woven swoop of green fading to brown in sort of an infinity ribbon