Detail peek...
Nasty, squirming, squirrely, insatiably hungry Rudi cats. They give me the creeps.
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January 2009
January 30, 2009
January 27, 2009
a note
I'll be disappearing into the studio for a while, getting ready for my solo in the Project Room at Thinkspace. I'll poke my head out now and then with some sketches and previews of works. Tschao until then!
January 19, 2009
The Aukle Dinner.
4.5 x 6.5 oval gouache on illustration board. Click for larger.
Oh! Thanks to the Not-God, whose beneficence did
Not give us this meal we eat:
He has Not bade us eat, for our multiplication
Is really No interest of His.
From Jubilate! And other hymns to Not-God, Vol I.
A note on the work: it's surprising how the in-outs of creating everyday can make you lose self-evident guidelines... what I mean to say, really, is that I've gotten into a bad habit of not spending enough time with my ideas in my sketchbooks before going straight to painting them (I just get too excited), and I think my work has suffered somewhat because of that. I'm working very hard on my sketchbooks right now, and this is the first product of that-- all these fellows have been showing up a lot lately. This piece was furthermore a bit of an experiment in that I moved away from reliance upon graphite outlining-- it was surprising, actually, how much more I read the way the forms interacted without knowing that I would be grinding in an outline after painting it. Anyway, I'm thankful for this piece because I've been a little rut-stuck and this feels like my first shovelful out.
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January 14, 2009
Jack & Jill
10 x 8 gouache on illustration board. Click for larger.
"Just five minutes longer, dear..."
The curious containment...
January 07, 2009
Creature of the Night.
8 x 10 graphite on bristol board. Click for larger.
I heard him singing, but he stopped as I approached...
January 06, 2009
The Birders.
10 x 8 gouache on illustration board. Click for larger.
O, the winged warbling cacophony
The damnable Birders bring
The mess, the noise, the pluckéd branch
Hide thee when you hear them sing...
—from The Collected Complaints of Har-tha-Nooght, Volume XIV
Details: click for larger.
January 05, 2009
Henrietta
3 x 4.5 graphite on bristol board in a vintage paper frame. Click for larger.
Husbandry never goes out of style... here's to all our friendly, delicious friends.
January 02, 2009
practical joke.
4.5 x 3 gouache on illustration board. Click for larger.
Resolved to wait all day, if he has to...
