Mysterious Tea

A baboon and a Bentley

Two batches of sketches, very light pencil and very dark pencil:

You can see that some of these crossed the gutter in my sketchbook(s).

So Remiss...

More sketches, I'm adding more to my back-log of scans, so expect more updates soon, as well as some posts on my current projects which include album covers, Noh inspired jewelry, and big paintings.

Pencil sketches

sketch post: wagner time

Another batch of sketches from old and current sketchbooks, this time pen and ink. Sammy, the cat, is likely to appear in most of these sketch posts as he is always around to pose and I see him so much that I can draw him from memory fairly easily.

King of Infinite Spaces

This image ultimately stemmed from the reflections of the sky on the water of the small pond in front of this father and son. The feeling of a vast elongation of the world through the mirroring of water and sky laid out before the two of them made me think of one of the defining books of my childhood, Sophie's World, one of the messages of which that a child (and, ideally philosophers) have an endless capacity for wonder and discovery. For that little boy, there was no break between the solid world in front of him and the untouchable mystery of the blue sky, only an infinite world of possibility.

Some sketches and....

the niftiest music video I've ever seen. I'm sad that Google doesn't have enough photos of my childhood home, but the rest of you might be luckier. My brother recently played the new Arcade Fire album for me, specifically the song "Rococo", which he correctly assumed I'd like. It reminds me uncannily of my high school Art History class.

I've been culling drawings from some of my more recent sketchbooks so as to have some filler for in between posts of finished pieces. I've been dividing them up by media, and black and white verses color, but the years are all mixed in, although unless I grab my older sketchbooks from my parents' house, none of these will be from earlier than 2008.