Posted in Everyday Sketches on June 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I harvested just one lavender plant this morning and there’s enough fragrance for dozens of sachets! And the plums!! Last year we got not more than 12 plums from the tree I planted three years ago. This year I pick a big basketful of plums each day. The Matilija Poppies (Fried [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Back to a memory of the Harmony Festival. We had sought shade and a place to sit down and rest in the Peace Dome (or some such name, an enormous white dome tent where Gabriel Cousins was speaking). This young father with the blond dreadlocks holding his baby, meditated in a crouched position [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on June 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This model was so young and willowy, like a sapling. Something about this 5 minute sketch and its unfinished-ness, looks like she’s either clothed in white dance tights or alternately, exceedingly naked.
Charcoal and pastel on sketch paper
Posted in Figure studio sketches on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I went to Thursday night figure studio with some acrylic abstracts I’d painted onto the back of old watercolor paintings. Since it was our last meeting before summer vacation we did a lot of eating, drinking and talking and not as much drawing. But the model was superb and I got these two [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Feeling fractured, torn in a million small pieces I placed a call to the inner artist to help me understand or at least express the impossibility of being all the different people I’m trying to be. And here was the answer.
Sumi ink, irridescent acrylic, Sharpee pen on Llama Li sketchbook paper
a fossilized creature oozing [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
So much going on lately, from graduation events and birthday parties to a family member gravely ill in the hospital. Joy and pain colliding in each successive moment. Time to sit down and do some art!
Watercolor, paper collage on 140 lb. watercolor paper
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on June 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This piece came on a day when I connected up uncomfortably with one of my fatal flaws. I won’t go into details. I assume we all have them, although on the days when you connect with your own, it does seem like you’re the only one in the world with. . . The [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on June 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Bob and I went to the Harmony Festival yesterday and partook of the 1001 New Age ways to become healthy and enlightened. By the end of three hours I was exhausted with the effort, but it was thoroughly fascinating! Not many places to sit down without being in a meditation spot or some [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on June 10, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My brother-in-law and friend, Chris Thorsen, asked me to illustrate some of his Haiku. I picked this one about a goldfinch first because I spend a lot of time watching them in my garden. They particularly like to bathe in our fountain. Chris has books worth of these Haiku and will hopefully [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on June 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sumi ink, watercolor, Sharpee pen on Llama Li sketchbook paper
I closed my eyes and saw circles of different sizes, and then this question popped into my head. There are so many things to notice in each moment. Which ones do we tune into? And can we tune ourselves to a higher vibration [...]
