The only frame of reference I’ve had for Malibu, until just recently, was Malibu Barbie. I had a cool Barbie house that opened flat to become a beach house, or doubled up on top of itself to become Barbie’s ski chalet. My significant’s parents live there, and when a parent fell, broke ribs, and punctured […]
March
06
Musing
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#oneweek100people 2017 drawing challenge starts tomorrow. That’s daunting, but I thought I’d give it a whirl. Inspired by the writing challenge, NaNoWriMo, Urban Sketchers Marc Taro Holmes and Liz Steel created a challenge to draw more from life. I find myself in coffee shops a lot these days anyway. I also have a journal-notebook-paper-products-in-general stash (A.K.A. […]
January
31
Circe
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I think Circe is next. That’s what I wrote in a May 20th, 2014 post of a Romare Bearden study of Poseidon. And she was. But after the difficult figure was on paper – the simplicity and elegance of his execution with paper cutting is deceiving – I stalled out – for over two and […]
January
25
Backwards
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Everything about this effort was backwards. It began with lazily copying a flower motif from a throw pillow onto craft paper in my sketchbook: low effort, low attachment. I counterintuitively added the cat after and behind the flowers. I then began my descent into art supply free fall. Darkening it with peerless water colors, then […]
December
08
Avatar Dog
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A friend visited last weekend and we went to the Apple Store and cooed over the iPad Pro. The drawing apps and pencil were really amazing. I’ve wanted an iPad off-and-on for years, but couldn’t really justify it. Still can’t, actually. Not for awhile anyway. I decided I didn’t need it to do “looser, painterly’ […]
December
04
What?
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In the original photo by Scott Shuman (of The Sartorialist), this man is clearly laughing at something. Hopefully that translates. Throughout this study I felt he was yawning – politely trudging along with me for the two-plus-months’ journey of lunch hours, stolen moments, and problematic-hand-abandonment. I finished it tonight sitting in front of a fireplace […]
November
12
Mr. President?
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Quick and dirty is showing. Mine and Donald’s. Based on a sticker on the back of my notebook that was, well, unflattering to begin with, I have created the Pig Man. I drew directly with a set of gradient gray Pitt markers onto the craft paper in my Midori Traveler’s Notebook. This grotesque lunch hour […]
October
28
Amoeba Church
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Immaculate Heart of the Protozoa. Holy Order of the Microbial. There’s enough of a stained-glass-teeming-with-tiny-life vibe to this fancy doodle for a very, very small scale Dan Brown novel. It was a good morning meditation piece from Creative Bug TV. Lisa Congdon has a series of materials and sketchbook explorations on CBTV that I’ve followed […]
September
11
Westward
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It was time to go home. I am not made to sleep upright. I envy people who can immediately power down anywhere, anytime, and for any duration. When I’m abandoned by such people on long-ish flights, audiobooks and doodling are the paths through sleep-deprived resentment. I would draw them, but somatic geniuses always want the […]
September
07
Peru & Chicago
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The flight from the west coast to Chicago is about four hours. The timeless “right brain” state feels good, shuts down the mental chatter, and transforms long trips into wine and pretzel blips. I finished one of my earlier Scott Schuman fashion portraits with some Derwent Inktense blocksticks that I’ve been keeping in a pouch […]
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