Tuesday, October 31, 2006

"It's Halloween, the time is here!"



I won't have any Halloween critters in my drawings until I hit the drawing table later tonight, these are just more school folks passing me while waiting for Devin to finish choir practice. Sometimes these people see me drawing but they never say anything to me, and most of them do their best to ignore me. Makes me feel invisible, el hombre invisible, but sometimes a little lonely, everyone in the hard nutshells of their lives, and me on the outside making my quiet notes.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Signs




Boy with bag, first a girl started telling me about a mark on the sidewalk that had been there "FOREVER", then a boy leaps off the bench showing me his handpainted art paper sack, and of course I put this together to mean "cover your stain!", then I saw the stone worm woman, which is self explanatory. Another day in the microcosm...

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Watch the birdie

Just a girl being uplifted by something silly and beautiful...

saturn's day



A cat, and a girl and her toxins...

Friday, October 27, 2006

Megapositive ions and my dirty, stinky sock soul




The world is ON ON ON today and I just want to shut off and crawl under my eyelids.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Waiting



Just some folks waiting for stuff...

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

dreamers





A teacher's aide in the hallway, my son the dreamer, the fair maiden from my iraqi hotel dream, and the hellocopter.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

school day


Devin's teacher and a fragment of a dream....

Monday, October 23, 2006

woman



The same woman, two drawings, the top one captures better what shes like inside, these dark spots inside her, shes just some woman who lives next to me, plain not pretty or anything, always seems like life has her by the heels, I think she's from Missouri, has two kids, and of course Dad's gone fighting the good fight. There's a really large rabbit hutch in the dining room of their house, no table or chairs, just this big white animal cage with a pink base, in the backyard a dead garden that the family was so excited about planting when they first moved in, makes me think about that Tom Waits song about a rose on another man's vine, except there are no roses, just rabbits and dead tomato plants.

stuff



This is just some stuff on my drawing table.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

After the rain...






This is the kind of thing I do after I finish working in the painting studio, usually just to unwind, but I also like to get lots of ideas down, quickly, sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Mostly they just get added to the great pile of stuff on my drawing table.

Friday, October 20, 2006

women





a curly headed lady who had a lot of dingle dangles in her pockets, a woman at the customer service desk of the department store, and another woman i saw at my son's school. it was raining, i was sitting on a bench, and i looked up just as she looked at me, a weird moment, we just sort of floated there in the moment for a second before she walked away. i really liked the way the drawing turned out.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

ants


The night after the earthquake my downstairs bathroom was invaded by thousands of ants. I walked in and every part of the walls was covered in ants. Took me hours to clean the damn things up. I think the earthquake must have done something to their nest and they came into my bathroom. My cat had caught several of the winged males and held them prisoner between his paws.

assortments






Just some random people, the biggest news around here was Sunday's earthquake, which as you can tell from my drawing wasn't as exciting as CNN made it out to be. Our power was out for the day, that was about it, the bed shook, my son said "that was the coolest thing ever!" but I read Murakami all day and griped to my cats about not being able to have coffee.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

some fastfood people




just some fastfood folks, i hate fastfood but the restaurants are great for watching people.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006



devin at burger king with a tasty beverage, and the amazing tv goggles kid who gave me and my friend a wonderful performance of the augustus gloop song from charlie and the chocolate factory. he did the whole song from start to finish and would have done more if we hadn't fled the mcdonald's.

so, im using this website to post my watercolors and drawings until my other website goes up. probably photos too, i don't really know at this point. we'll see where it goes.