sunshine
ALT: crayon drawing of a sunflower being, something like a friendly caterpillar being? and a tree with no leaves.
I have a solitary volunteer sunflower in my garden. It is taller than me, with a single bloom bigger than my head. Every day I visit, so see if any bumblebees are napping or collecting there, and to admire its magnificence. As the summer winds down, I love the shout of life this green one is making, and it pushes to form seeds for another one to grow next year.
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.
norns
Alt: acrylic and crayon drawing, abstract. You could see three figures passing along a red thread, from spindle to shears. Green on the left, red-orange at center, purple on the right (yes, I was raised in the culture that reads from left to right on the page, and I did not think about that compositional idiom until just now)
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.
tubby stickleback bird
ALT: acrylic and crayon drawing featuring a red bird-like creature, as described in the caption. It has some blue feather details, and a very large eyeball.
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.
guard what matters
ALT: crayon drawing, abstract. There’s a rather large egg shape in the lower right quadrant. maybe sitting in water, or blue shadow. A purple shape stands over or beside it; could be a bird (if so, pretty small relative to the egg), or a swirl of heavy smoke? Anyway, it’s all before a backdrop of blue and green, with a sort of shadowy tree thing in the distance, above the egg .
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.
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