If you can draw a stick figure, you can do a page like this…eventually.
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Figures!
In these parts, if you say “Figures!” it means “Obviously, that was going to happen!” But in Artland, Figures are human forms represented by some sort of expressive medium as pencil or paint.
I love to do sketches of the human from in various attitudes. It figures that on my day off, I would relax by doing this.
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murk in progress
A long time ago, Gahan Wilson drew a cartoon of two Asian monks or lamas hovering over a cauldron of stew. One has just tasted with a ladle. He says, “Enough yin. More yang.”
Similarly, the idle sketcher will start with a doodle and then the two sides of the brain wrestle over it. “Enough intuition. More logic.” Suddenly it is no longer a doodle but a start on something more. All too often for the impatient or attention-deficited, it doesn’t amount to anything.
I have stacks and stacks of such, and much more has been discarded. This one is on the bubble:
Next post will either have a completed version of this, or something completely different, or both. Depends on whether I run out of yang. [yinnish grin]
My own private Salon des Refusés (Part One)
Today I was looking for an unfinished page I’d undone-edly done on Sally Ride. The Science Channel just showed a terrific movie about Richard Feynman’s involvement in the commission investigating the Challenger disaster, and watching it I learned that Sally Ride was the one who’d indirectly pointed Feynman to the O-Rings as the probable cause.
Alas, I’ve thus far not found the Sally Ride page. What I did find was a boatload of abandoned works. Either my enthusiasm for the idea had dimmed, or it was worthy but a lot of work to finish, or I was stumped for a rhyme or an image completion, or the drawing had gone sour, or Other. But all of the ones I’m posting here make me wish I could devote more time to them.
Addled Wit Sharpener
Some day there’ll be a pharmacological solution to addled wits. Were this the day, I’d be a customer.
Poetry As Motion
This is well started, but the figure depicted is the last of what would be several poetically posed–and moving–figures.
Ultimate Gargoyle
I want to sculpt some imposing gargoyles before I die. (I have other plans for after I die. [smiles]) Here is a try at gargoyle design.
3Deified
Intended as a quasi-discussion on the trend toward 3d in movies. But ulteriorly I wanted to immortalize yet another bad pun.
Sixto Rodriguez/Sugarman Finder
This would have been a love song to the film SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN and its subject. I put it off because I would need a lot of time to do it right.
Revolver Resolved
Earlier this year I was invited to participate in an art show entitled “Children and Guns.” I got this far with my would-have-been contribution before the pain of the subject compelled me to stop.
(End of Part One)
Derail Stress
Destiny just HALF-awaits
Eternity oft slows a gait
Recipes for amped career
Asperity unspoken here
Inner peace remembers this
Lucidity precursors bliss
One with Clay, Image and Text 