sproing
ALT: close-up of a pale green shoot withe scrawly dark green marks climbing all over it. The two long leaves seem to be droopy as if not enough water lately but they’re still very green and would revive. Dirt below, and behind is yellow and pale blue circle of light. The right edge of the page is night-black, but we have entered the light half of the year so it’s no longer dominant.
Originally posted for 3/19/25, now with colors. This may not be quite done, but it’s more done than it was. You can go back to the original post, print it out, and add your own colors if you wish.
ALT: The line drawing of a tree by a stream from 3/19/25, now with watercolors added. So, sunset yellows and reds in the sky, pink flower blossoms, blue stream with yellow splashes, purple hills, and the tree is shadowy purples and reddish browns. One trailing branch, which is kind of weird, and the big root up front really looks like a foot or a toe.
ring around the rosy (we all fall down)
ALT: acrylic painting in blues, orange and pinkish purple. a rose dead center, and some pretty chaotic looking personages around it facing all directions some smiling, some looking rather anxious
joyful vernal equinox to all. the daylight hours now outnumber the dark ones. may it be so in all our lives.
ALT: very slapdash acrylic painting of a large flower bud on a stem, with little shine marks over it, and a phalanx of sprouting seeds swarming toward it, I have to say a bit like sperms to an ovum.
the looming inevitable
Watching the descent of the US government into authoritarian oligarchy reminds me of the way I felt in January and February of 2020, watching the pandemic make its way to our shores while people who were in a position to take useful action instead were dismissive of the people who had information and experience. It’s horrifying.
ALT: ink brush painting of a breaking wave preceding what might be a massive wall of ocean. The colors are gray, yellow, reddish and purple. It didn’t come out looking as ominous as I was feeling it to be, but there are three little pips right under the curling breaker, and a few more surfing over the top of it.
way past my bedtime
ALT: abstract crayon and acrylic painting. There’s a blue ground that looks watery, then some kind of blue arc in what would be the ‘sky’, with sunset orange above that. Set in the ‘water’ is a purple structure of some kind, angular and open, more like a scaffold than a building. In front of that are black lines and shapes, that look a little more organic but still a scaffold of sorts. and some webs and spirals of thinner black lines traced around and through. One spot of yellow-orange peeks through from behind the purple. it really was late, and I really had no big ideas about images, just putting feelings into lines and colors.
webby wall
ALT: ink and acrylic drawing that resembles a brick wall with blue windows, black streaks that could be structure or shadow, and a lacing of white lines that could be strings like clothesline tied to several points and stretching across it all.
colorground
I thought I’d lay the ground for some linework, but only got this far. No matter; I kind of like it just as it is.
ALT: abstract rounded shapes in bright colors, water-soluble crayon and colored pencil. Yellows seem to be the background for rounded bone-like(?) shapes in red, purple and blue.
stirrings
ALT: calligraphic watercolor in pink, purple, blue and green. The green makes leafy stalks, with pink and purple flowery blobs, and breezy blue spirals between.
in praise of the dawn chorus
ALT text: acrylic painting mostly in blues, with two black birds facing each other. the backdrop is like grass and reeds and seedpods, kind of swirling and interweaving like birdsongs.
eyespider 