Seed Orders, Angry Birds & Angry Drunks

Other things I do when I'm sick: order spring garden seeds, yay! Wonder what's all the fuss over Angry Birds. I also read inconsequential magazines... in which I spied an article about people's varied reactions to overconsumption. Am I an angry drunk? Nope. A friendly drunk? Well, sort of, but I'm friendly when I'm sober. Munchy-then-sleepy drunk? BINGO :-) ...and I can barely remember that, since I haven't been more than just "tipsy" in oh, 13 years or so? HA!

Abstracts for Anders (Round 2)

I think I finally did something completely abstract! I started with a blank page & blank mind (that's a first). I made... wavy lines of some kind? I'm not sure the time expended on this outcome was worthwhile to me. But the neat thing was that producing this degree of flowing visual repetition gave me a kind of hallucinogenic experience. Really! Black pen, then acrylic washes, then white Prismacolor pencil... and that's that.

Beers for Aya (Round 2 Collab)

Hey Aya, have a beer with me? If you don't like beer, no worries, I'll drink yours... but please enjoy drawing something on this page first ;-)

Sketchbook Fever: Ash Sends Anders to Heidi

On Thursday, just before I got knocked down by a nasty cold & flu bug, Anders' book popped into my mailbox. Here it is, laying within easy reach on my sick bed, near Eddie, also laying within easy reach on my sick bed :-) Ash drew these fun images & I'm posting them to share, because they lead up to a very fun "collab" effort between us. Ash had no idea how appropriate "blaaahh!" would be when this book arrived, HA! I will try to photograph my artistic response later... right now, I need a nap. Sketch, nap. Hot tea, nap. Draw, nap. Cough piteously, nap. Life becomes quite simple when we are sick.

Raindrops, Spider, and Lemons

Whew! I've been so busy at work, I just come home and drop to sleep. In the middle of the IT Crowd and everything! But I finally had a chance to see which of my photos were focused (hardly any) and post them.

I have a sort of an idea brewing, but none of these represent the whole idea. These are various stages of the idea, and variations it went through. In the end, I thought featuring the parts would make an interesting series. These are very inspired by the spring weather around these parts.






(In the lemon tree? Why would I do that?)