I did not make a drawing this day. Instead I’ll show you what was going on in my workspaces, some days lately I let this be enough to allow a holiday from the dailies.
One more collage emerging, I think this might be the last one for this year. It has quite a way to go, but I do like the nun with flower angel wings and knife upraised into the painted sky. And I’ve mined the backdrop Bosch painting for years, I don’t even remember where I got the original from. The animals are from a National Geographic article about someone documenting endangered wildlife in gorgeous portrait photos.
when I got tired of that I did this:
neither project arrived at a state of completion before I was ready to retire for the evening. hopefully seeing some of the process will enhance your enjoyment of the eventually completed pieces!
I mostly worked on collages this day. Here is a gallery of where the 2026 batch is at.
2026 collage #2 : current state nearly done.2026 collage #2: in progress, nothing glued down yet.2026 collage #3: current state – nothing glued down yet, but I think the layout is nearly done2026 collage #3: earlier phase. A bit of collage #1 visible to the left.2026 collage #4 in progress. Early stage of collage #1 on the right.2026 collage #4 current state. This might be done but for the gluing.2026 collage #1, just in case you missed my post a couple days ago. This one is all done and ready to mount or frame.
ALT: crayon. four horizontal lines, with brown blocks between them like spacers. each line is being grasped by robot or insect-like arms and pincers. they appear tangled, but are staying out of each others’ way.
And what is being woven? In my studio, it’s more of these darn stars.
ALT: water-soluble crayon, abstract. orange, purple and green stripey background, black lines form something that could be seen as a person holding a pet, or maybe a smaller person. who can say. maybe I watched that beaver kit reel too many times.
Meanwhile, if you’re wondering why all my drawings lately look like I spent 15 minutes or less on them, it’s because I’m spending most of my studio time on these. more darn stars, they seem to be my art-making comfort food at the moment. I’m rolling with it.
ALT: six flower shapes made of yarn and embroidery floss woven around pipe cleaner frames.
ALT: water-soluble crayon and pencil, abstract, basically a bunch of squiggly lines in green, orange and purple. they resemble string or something organic.
And also, part of why my drawings of late have been so fast and loose is that I’ve given in to my frequent wintertime passion for tying knots. Here’s a bit of what I’ve been doing at my table, instead of drawing or painting.
ALT: five stars made with pipe-cleaners, and woven and sewn yarn. a variety of color and stitch patterns. Two are 5-pointed, the rest with six points. I call them “darn stars” as they use various techniques for mending holes in clothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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