sun of flowers (unfinished)
ALT: ink painting of three flowers shaped sort of like daisies, but pink and purple, and having faces in their centers. The top one is smiling open-mouthed, just under is one that looks sort of skeptical, and the third stands apart looking a bit zoned out. Not yet colored in there’s a fairly normal looking dandelion and a marigold. The sky is filled with a sun that is really just another big flowers with petals that cover the whole background of the picture.
hold your fire
ALT: water soluble crayon drawing, abstract. There’s a shape like a bent bow with the string pulled to outside the left edge of the picture, but not really any apparent arrow. Also, the stylized, calligraphic shape that might be a person is not in the correct orientation to even be pulling the bowstring. So I’m not sure what the heck is going on there, but the shapes seemed to call to each other for me.
hard time waking up
ALT: Ink drawing in blue lines with red and yellow background. You might see it as a being of some sort propped up in bed looking very grumpy and disheveled. There’s definitely a sort of eye, and spiky hair. Goodness knows what the rest of it is all about. Lots of dots and squiggles.
dancing willows, sway and bend
ALT: ink drawing showing two willow shoots cavorting in front of two egg-shaped, sky-colored openings in a dark purple ground. One of the shoots has just 3 leaves, and exposed roots, the other coming up from below has all of 5 leaves, and you can’t tell if it’s in the earth or not. Oh, and there’s something like a full moon in the upper sky-hole.
my ah-ther-itis is acting up
ALT: ink drawing mostly in blues and purple, of an angular figure with red anger spots in the hips and knees, and lots of slashing exclamatory lines. pale gray letters near the head say ow ow ow ow. Hands are on face, eyes are big and hair is standing straight up. Sigh. Yes, I took an advil, and slept pretty well after all. And I don’t like to complain, but pain really does suck.
choose your weapons carefully
ALT: ink painting. A gray mountain under a dark purple-blue sky with polkadot stars. And also one big yellow poorly drawn star and a round yellow and red thing that I guess could be a moon. For some reason there’s a sort of vase on top of the mountain, empty but with a coupld of flowers drawn on it that are shedding petals. Under the mountain sits a creature with antennas and claws and snake-like eyes. It’s grasping a thing that looks like an old rooftop antenna. there are a bunch of little red triangles floating around it. I don’t know, that’s just how it came out.
we live in houses (unfinished)
ALT: line drawing of three characters that seem to be partly buildings. The left-most one (biggest) has two legs, boots with windows, also face windows and a balcony bill like a duck. The middle one is cat-shaped, with a chimney tail, window in its closest ear, and maybe a doorway between its front legs. The right-most one is sort of like a peg or furniture ornament, but with some kind of angular fins coming out of its head, and about 6 legs like smaller pegs, that are each sitting in a bucket. The whole thing is just outlined; if I have time and inclination I might paint in some colors and more details.
wake up. it’s spring.
ALT – ink painting of two bulbous roots with faces that look sleepy or surly. The one in front also has a hand for some reason, and it’s reaching toward a mushroom. Both of the plant folk have leaves coming up out of their heads like plumes of hair. There’s a blue and gray sky above, and they’re imbedded in earth that has scribbles in it that I guess stand in for the compost and other dirt critters.
birthday blues
ALT: acrylic painting of an orange vase with a sad face on it, holding some wilting flowers that seem to have already shed some petals. The background has a light blue orb, I have no idea what that’s about, maybe a window or clear open space. Around the bottom, left, and top edges is a bunch of calligraphic writing in an imaginary alphabet.
on a mission
ALT: sort of Thurber-esque ink painting of a wizard going someplace accompanied by a cat at his feet and a flying owl. A crescent moon and a single star overhead. The wizard is of course identifiable by his pointy hat, blue robes, and flowing beard. And red socks.
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