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.
song to a windblown leaf
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. A dry yellow leaf, as from a beech or chestnut tree, on the left side of the page from bottom to top. A blue curve and spiral intersect it from the right. There’s a blue horizon line a bit above the halfway point.
three gray sisters
ALT: ink and crayon, abstract. Blue, purple and red organic lines and patches, woven through with the stylized images of three heron-like birds.
we make some harmonies
ALT: crayon and ink drawing, abstract sort of landscape. There are something like rolling hills in the background (blue, and purple striped) and maybe the edge of a lake in the foreground (blue-green). Growing up from the edge on the right side of the page are 5 tall skinny things (purple-brownish) like cattails or carrot roots. On the left side of the page, hanging down from the top are 4 things of similar shape but blue-greenish. The sky is orangish, like sunset. I don’t know where this came from, but I was just home from an absolutely lovely several hours of trading songs and stories with local friends at a pub sing and the after-sing gathering. Everything is somehow wound through with music.
nerve endings
ALT: ink and crayon drawing. Weaving and winding black lines, with some pale purples and greens filling in some of the spaces. One way you could look at it, you might see the end of a bone, with some nerve endings (or bare trees, or river tributaries) touching it and nearby. If you see something else, that’s also correct.
hello friend
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. Colorful abstract wax crayon background, with a black ink drawing on it. It depicts a cartooney bird with a big beak and round eye, wearing a heart shape on its breast. There is some scratchboard work for texture in the legs and feathers. I think the bird’s expression is both wary and hopeful.
the voice of experience
ALT: ink drawing. two sweet round little rodents have their backs to us, and face a BIG creature of the same ilk, who has three sharp teeth, crazed eyes and a manic expression. But cute ears. The littles are blue and green; the big one is purple.
a big tent
ALT: ink drawing. a stylized sun with black and yellow rays shines below a blue roof or sky made of swoopy curves. Some streaks that could be birds spangle the sky-web. The drawing also works with the sun at the top, but this is the orientation I had it while drawing.
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.
we’re hiding down here
ALT: ink drawing. A person and a squid behind a sort of curtain of kelp and bubbles
eyespider 