heavy thoughts
ALT: ballpoint pen drawing of a floofy bird sitting with its feet out front and head down, under something that looks like a comic book thought bubble made of rock. there’s an anatomically compromised humanoid propping or stabililizing the top rocks in the bubble.
sleepy gull
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. the head of a bird that does somewhat resemble a gull looks sleepy, and is somewhat obscured by scribblings of graphite that has shapes of fish and shells. there might be a moon above.
picnic on green
ALT: ink and watercolor. two beings that could be bugs seem to be sharing beverages and company on a ground of leaves and blue swooshes.
bracken reflection
ALT: watercolor based on a photo of ferns reflected in still lake water. the painting is very loose and sketchy, and I don’t think the actual reflections came off clearly, so I put in an extra dragonfly to make up for it.
blue bird of harpiness
ALT: crayon and ink. a purple winged critter with some resemblance to a pterodactyl possibly threatens a couple of small golden quadrupeds, one of which is hiding behind some green plant thing. gold spots dot the field, and also dot the sky.
night beats
ALT: water soluble crayon, abstract. Crescent moon shape on a blue ground. superimposed are a series of black curved lines descending, like ribs or claws, and a series of red sticks not quite matching up to the pointed ends of the curves. I spent the evening at a concert by EMEFE, a NYC band featuring a boss horn section and many playfully interlaced rhythms.
atop rattlesnake
I think I must paint this tree every year, or at least take a photo. I like the way watercolors do what they want, and I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about it. (surely more serious artists have a lot more control of the medium, but I enjoy its spontaneity)
ALT: watercolor depicting a tree on a rocky ground, with a mountain range in the background (old New England mountains, not the jagged forbidding kind) if you look closely there’s a person standing by the tree, almost transparent.
looking for lake
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon, abstract landscape. mostly horizontal drifting lines across the page; blue below, as if rippled water, and orange above as if sunset in a periwinkle sky, with purple hills between.
hopeseed
ALT: ink and crayon drawing, an egg (brown) with a loosely tied green ribbon looped around it, on an orange stripe that sits upon blue lines like water
what we keep, and what we cannot
ALT: water soluble graphite and crayon. a coiled nest of brambles, and a line of 5 winged red shapes below, within, and escaping into the clear air above. just learned of an old friend gone into hospice, and at my age I guess I’d better start getting used to hearing this kind of news. sigh.
