I’m just posting these b/c I like the way they look all in a batch. Look back at my 22 June post to see the template for these little ink puddles.
I might start making 9 at a time, just so I can have an even grid.
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Category Archives: studio blog
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.
24 April 2025
here are those flowers again, with even more colors. Still not finished, I don’t think.
ALT: the three flowers under a flower sun picture again, but now all the white areas are filled in, and the “sun” is a rather lurid blue and orange ring. Not sure I love the color balance yet.
4 April 2025
I did not get to my studio today because preparing and hosting the opening reception for my little show, which was lovely. I did get to practice flower arranging.
I submit Proof of Cake
and also proof of Kate, with Rose Watson, my Harmony Collective cake fairy
here are some pictures of the art I’m showing. It’s all from before my daily art practice, the late ’80s to the ’90’s. It has mostly lived in folders in drawers since then.
26 March 2025
I think it’s finished now.
below are the two previous posted versions
ALT: pop art tabby cat, copper with blue stripes and a white bib, two large floating flower blossoms, and a butterfly. The version directly below it has the colors but now shading, and the original post on 3/21/24 was a black and white line drawing.
24 March 2025
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.
20 March 2025
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.
10 March 2025
the truth.
this is probably my last collage for this time around, I have the supplies mostly sorted and ready to store for next year. Thanks to Stephanie Luck Coïc for sending me an inspirational packet of materials, and to all the friends and relations that participate in my annual collage get-together. It never fails to surprise and motivate me.
2 March 2025 – Collage Party Time!
The February collage party came a little late this year, but it came nevertheless. Here’s the one piece I managed to finish during the party, but expect more to come in the next few days as I sort paper and tidy the studio up again. Thanks to the late George Thomas, from whose studio archives I got the tracing of a perspective study which forms the basis for the collage.
Here is the Group Collage that came out of this year’s party. Nine people contributed to this effort. Plus a few more that were there in spirit.
1 March 2025
No drawing for today, but I finished painting and hanging new street signs. So I submit these photos as proof of studio time.
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