Heavy posts and lintels number1

Cell

Just some guy I saw today on his cell phone...not too many drawings today.

Lovely waters

So I was really really pleased after I finished working last night. I think these are some of the best watercolors I have done. My starting point was the fat lady from yesterdays post. I was just wondering about her life, and got started on these.

mompopop

Funny, I had a dream this morning where I was presented with a series of overalls which would also appear on a lion sitting on a hill. Each one was a different color. And later today I saw five people in the same area wearing blue jean overalls. It's sleepover saturday and the boys are happy with their games, but it makes working a little trying.

endsong

some of these folks are from the tonights xmas concert, some i saw around today. so i have an albino ive seen around sometimes, shes just a highschool girl, then a man with a head unfortunately shaped like big egg, a mom and her little boy, some fat lady who was ahead of me in line at the toysrus who kept regarding her little niece with such condescencion and yet continued pestering the girl about how she doesnt like her anymore, and the little girl kept trying to hide under the back of her mothers shorts, and then the man i saw at the bank bragging about how he has to spoonfeed all his underlings. im really glad that was the last concert, i love watching my son perform, but everything else is just long and tedious, especially when all the chattery fidgety grownups seem to have the same short attention spans as the nine year olds.

watercolor wind

so i stole the title of this blog from laura viers, my apologies to her, but it fits for today, and i really i like her music. i make watercolors everyday but i don't always feel very good about them, actually i really struggle with the medium every time i work them, but occasionally i do things i don't mind showing, theres this great pile of them on my drawing table which looks like a paper tower. but these i felt were strong. i met this very friendly gentleman at the burger joint yesterday, and although i suck at small talk and he must have thought me a little weird and kind of rude, he left a positive impression with me and that was the starting point for these watercolors. as far as the song the blog title was taken from, that song could also have easily been about him. (its the year of meteors album, the song is rialto)

Holiday sack

So the holidays are here and have taken over my usual routines, but hopefully in the next few days I can get back to my normal schedule. There have been an unusual number of synchronicities in the last couple of weeks and have centered on the reccurence of lemurs in my dreams. Cheers.

Little bit...

Didn't do any work in the sketchbook today, just one painting, cheers to y'all...

Ugly Monuments

My son's elementary school has some of the ugliest public art I've ever seen at a public school. The best ones I've seen let the kids design clay tiles and install mosaics on the walls, which works well, because it lets the kids have a dominant voice in how the project works, and it's almost always cheerful and colorful. It also reflects the very communal nature of public school, and I think it lets kids feel that they have somehow sidestepped the authority figures. But this school, yuck, there's this big black bronze boogie man mounted on lava rocks out in the recess yard, and it pretty much looks the thing in my drawing here. I'm not really exaggerating. The bronze figure is only about five feet high and on the stone pedestal it's only about another two or three feet, so it isn't very imposing either. One of my son's teachers told me that it's supposed to be a respresentation of a character from a Hawaiian petroglyph, which is fine, but I've seen those petroglyphs, and their beautiful. This thing is just a sloppy, ugly hunk of bronze, and I can't say the casting was well done either. It's head looks like a football with a hole torn open for the mouth. There's also this beaten wallmounted copper thing over by the office which is much worse, and it's the color of shit. It's supposed to be an american flag with the hands of children somehow pushing up under the material, and a combat helmet sticking out of the upper left corner, the thing is ridged along the stripes of the flag but the welds along the top of the ridges are big and gloppy and it doesnt look like the artist put much of an effort to grind down those welds. The hands are beaten out from the other side, but when you're beating a metal you have to keep heating it as it hardens from all that hammering, otherwise it just becomes unworkable, and they look like she stopped halfway through all of them probably realizing that the piece of copper she was working with was too thick for that idea. The end result is four or five tiny warty frog hands randomly placed around the edges of the sculpture. Just yucky...

mallmiasma

The cats are going crazy fighting the mice ghosts inside the bathroom, but the music is nice and aquatic, Loscil's Submers. Malls make me tired, ugh tired. My son had his second concert at one of the local malls tonight. We killed some time walking around trying to goof around in the stores, but that got old quickly. I think malls need nappy rooms. I drew some folks walking around, but they got boring, even the pretty girls were boring. bleh...

xmas concert part 2

I'll probably have another post like this tomorrow with lots of drawings, my sons part of the school choir and the holiday concerts have started. This one was an outdoor tree lighting affair.

Xmas concert folks

big posts today, heres part one...