reaching pine
ALT: watercolor painting of a dark pine tree with branches and needles tending upwards, with a quietly dramatic sky that echoes the motion of the tree.
23 June 2025
Category Archives: Original Art Available
22 June 2025
Moody lake vista.
I am back from vacation, but need to spend the next couple of days catching up with work. So for now I will just post the first of my vacation week arts, and will fill in the rest over the next couple of days.
ALT: ink painting, landscape. Dark, almost black hill silhouetted against stormy looking clouds and water that is raked with patterns representing ripples that didn’t come out nearly the way I wish they had. Still. I like that it’s stark bands of dark and light, and the way the ink behaved to represent clouds is pretty satisfying to me.
20 June 2025
portal to the rabbitat
ALT: ink and crayon drawing. Some kind of being with arms upraised is stepping through a flamboyantly decorated arch, onto a field where five white rabbits sit and vaguely pay attention.
18 June 2025
bubble dragon
ALT: ink drawing in vibrant yellows, oranges and blues, of something that could be a seahorse hybrid, but with legs and a sort of puppydog face. there are wavy vertical lines at its back that could be kelp, and many orange-rimmed bubbles in the open water that it faces.
16 June 2025
the Guardian, one more time. I’m posting the first two versions below the ALT text, as well as the original National Geographic photo, just to have them all in one place.
ALT: crayon drawing referencing that same photo of the elephant poacher guard leaning on a spear. It is pretty much completely abstracted in this version, with the gold robe, green and reddish ground, and a purple arc of sky. Below are the original photo reference, and the two previous drawing interpretations I’ve posted.
15 June 2025
yet tyranny looms
ALT: a very scribbly crayon and ink drawing, with black, red and white snarly tangles on a pastel blue and gold background. the aggregate shape is somewhat of an echo of yesterday’s tyrannosaurus rex, without the flag or the goofy charm.
14 June 2025
No Kings since 1776
ALT: ink sketch of a t-rex wearing a crown and holding a US flag with a background that suggests a rally like the one we just had on the Brattleboro town commons.
12 June 2025
conspiritors
ALT: ink drawing, cartoon/sketch, of a fat, satisfied looking pink bird sitting on a hassock, and a rather woebegone blue cat sitting beside it.
11 June 2025
no comment
ALT: water-soluble crayon drawing. Picturing a face in an abstract yellow/orange/green hood/ The eyes are close set and peering directly out with a concerned and tired attitude. the mouth is closed firmly with a bit of a sad or sarcastic tilt. Dark blue sky and stars in the background. The face also has something like a shadowy third eye on its forehead.
10 June 2025
paws to worry
ALT: ink drawing, abstract. there is indeed something that could be a paw on the upper right side, with claws either blunt or deeply sunk into something. the blob occupying the left and bottom of the page looks fungal or fleshy to me. Colors are brown and black with some blue-gray and pinkish stuff.
eyespider 