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

keep

ALT: ink and water-soluble crayon. decorative, abstract. A figure knees holding a heart in the curl of their hands. blue flowing garments, a big foot, a long snakey neck lets the head gaze across and down toward the heart it is guarding.

pinch point

ALT: water-soluble crayon and ink, abstract. solid shapes on either side of the page seem to restrict the flow of the fluid between them. the shape on the left has a texture of plates or scales, and is a smooth curve. the shape on the right is marked with horizontal lines, and has a sharp angle right at the pinch point.

art studio speed run

ALT: crayon and gold ink. fast calligraphic doodle, looks like some being running by. I did indeed get into the studio – but only for a minute or two. So this is what you get.

pulling the string

or, “Miss Dysanthropoid and the Misanthropic Boid” (title from Jeff Colby)

ALT: crayon and ink drawing. One odd being is holding a string connected to a series of perhaps pulleys. Another stands with their arms upraised. A bird watches from above. This is all happening in a thicket of bare trees, and there’s maybe an opening or door up above where the pulleys hang.

playing with my friend the octopus

ALT: crayon and ink drawing. A sort of person faces out, arms upraised and leaning over or forward, nest to a shape that could indeed be an octopus, two or three tentacles upraised and the rest holding it up like a forest of legs. There’s another person in the background, so I think it could be at a park or something. It might be raining.