dream visitors
ALT: crayon and ink drawing, mostly blue with yellow lights. There’s a sleeping person on the bottom left, they only look a little worried. Floating around on the rest of the page are a number of characters: a fat bird, something with a very pointy face, a couple of people one older, one younger. Child-like stars drawn above, three of them. Lots of windy, floaty lines hanging it al together.
respite roses
ALT: crayon drawing, it’s just a pretty picture of three flowers simplified to spiraling cone shapes, with narrow leaves, and a couple of spiral blue wave shapes that the flowers sort of rise from. I needed a break from the news.
the scrolling of doom
ALT: mixed media drawing, abstract. Lots of black agitated fat lines over a lot of darker blues and purples, and a bit of orange. Some white calligraphic lines over all. There was a big face to start, and maybe you can still see it there.
seeking isles of clarity
ALT: crayon drawing, blues and orange/yellows, abstract. there are stripes that could be flames, things that could be spikes or reaching fingers, and birds flying. Also a few bubbles that have clearer interiors. As I seek respite from news of the advancing Turd Reich.
at its foundation there was always the dance
ALT: mixed media (acrylic, ink, crayon), abstract. There is a lot of imaginary writing, in black, gold, and red, drifting in lines across the page in all directions. There is some transparent blue, purple, green light shining through in the spaces between. You could maybe see a pair of stick figure dancing in the black and white lines. They echo the original compositional lines that I laid down when I started this one.
under
ALT: acrylic and crayon. It looks like a grumpy tortoise parked beneath a pile of boulders. Not clear if they’re balanced on its shell, or suspended above it. The whole picture is in various grays, the tortoise thing has some muted yellows that distinguish it from the rocks. And yes, I’m trying to do more than I’m really capable of, and I’m dropping balls, and I don’t like it.
who are we are who we are
ALT: crayon drawing. Three beings, abstracted and in robes (green, red, and purple/blue) float in front of something that could be a moon or the tail of a fat dinosaur, who can say. It does look like nighttime though.
sunshine
ALT: crayon drawing of a sunflower being, something like a friendly caterpillar being? and a tree with no leaves.
I have a solitary volunteer sunflower in my garden. It is taller than me, with a single bloom bigger than my head. Every day I visit, so see if any bumblebees are napping or collecting there, and to admire its magnificence. As the summer winds down, I love the shout of life this green one is making, and it pushes to form seeds for another one to grow next year.
song to a windblown leaf
ALT: crayon and ink drawing. A dry yellow leaf, as from a beech or chestnut tree, on the left side of the page from bottom to top. A blue curve and spiral intersect it from the right. There’s a blue horizon line a bit above the halfway point.
norns
Alt: acrylic and crayon drawing, abstract. You could see three figures passing along a red thread, from spindle to shears. Green on the left, red-orange at center, purple on the right (yes, I was raised in the culture that reads from left to right on the page, and I did not think about that compositional idiom until just now)
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