Friday Drawing

Theme: Breezy

I didn't have a chance to finish this one, and I don't think I ever will, but I thought I would put it up anyway.

Illustration Friday

Theme: Pale

Illustration Friday

Theme: Contained

St. Martin in the Fields

My older sister, also referred to as Ppp1, visited London a couple of years ago and bought these lovely pictures for me at the St. Martin Cathedral in Trafalgar Square. They are made by doing rubbings over brass reliefs. I think they are lovely and I had no way to display them until recently. But last week the German and I went to get a picture (of Smith rock up in Oregon that I had bought for his birthday a year ago!) framed and I found these cool floating frames (two pieces of glass sandwiched between the black frame). They are perfect. My favorite is the black one because it shows two little people skinny dipping together with the devil as a goat in a medieval thought bubble.


Is it a strict warning against fornication? Is it the medieval equivalent of a swingers club? Who knows! But I like it.

The place that we bought the frames was having a special buy one get one free, so we bought four. I didn't know what to do with the 4th one, but then I found these awesome postcards made from old science fiction book covers!

Fun yes?

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Past Lives

I haven't been able to get to my squid drawing yet, though I know exactly what I want to draw. That is sometimes the problem...when things are already finished in my head I lose my motivation to actually put them on paper. But I will probably get to it in the next week or so. I've become somewhat enamored with beetles and checked out a fabulous book on them. It's lovely and filled with beautiful pictures of actual beetles (most of them dead already, so it's a little creepy) and fantastic illustrations. If you have a fascination with beetles, this is the book for you.



Since I have nothing new to post, I thought it would be fun to dredge up some old sketches from the last few years. I recently found an old drawing book from when I lived in Eugene. It covers a messy and painful breakup, which I'm sure is perfectly obvious.











The next two sketches were inspired by this quote:

"Yin and Yang are highly inscrutable and man is only a temporary sojourner in them. With all the glorious prosperity of a short lived mushroom, he tumbles to ruin within a day. With all the momentary glory of a spring flower, he succumbs to frost within a week. Not even the winds blowing through high heaven or the sudden flash of lightening can move any faster. A century is to be likened to the smoke ridden by a meteor; whitening hair comes with the speed of an arrow passing by with a crack. Man appears like a perishing bamboo shoot before he has even sprouted; he meets his autumn and tumbles to pieces."

-From the autobiography of Ge Hong.