Friday, November 23, 2007

Illustration Friday - The Zoo

Last October when I was in South Africa, I drew this while on the Manyeleti game reserve. These are the sounds of the bush, and it was better than being at the zoo. :-)

Friday, November 16, 2007

Illustration Friday - Superstition

Walking under a ladder is supposed to be bad luck. What about drawing ladders?

I could be in big trouble. :-)

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

I want to be free

"I believe that every single event in life happens as an opportunity to choose love over fear."

--Oprah Winfrey

Friday, November 09, 2007

Illustration Friday - Scale


Beware the garlic goblins!

They may be small but they carry a big stink! :-)

Friday, November 02, 2007

Illustration Friday - Hats

Golf IS the most pointless game on earth.
And they all wear hats. (Even the little guy driving that cart).

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five." ~John Updike

"I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser." ~Arnold Palmer

"Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic." ~Author Unknown

"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies." ~Will Rogers

"Golf is a good walk spoiled." ~Mark Twain

"Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom." ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Hello new day

Drawn while looking at the ocean in Punta Mita, Mexico. :-)

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Surprise?

Creative volley #26 with Jen.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The early bird gets the worm, but the second rat gets the cheese.


This is a drawing from a LONG time ago. For some reason I used to have a fascination with rats. Happy Halloween everybody!!

Thursday, October 25, 2007

5 objects. 7 times.

I rarely draw the same thing more than once. These drawings were for a painting assignment. The 5 objects are the same in each, though I moved around slightly to alter the viewpoint.

Special bonus points if you guess which one was used for the painting. :-)








“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding."

~ Norman Maclean - from "A River Runs Through It"

Friday, October 19, 2007

Illustration Friday - Grow


What would I do if I wasn't afraid?

"Failure seldom stops you; what stops you
is the fear of failure."

-- Jack Lemmon, (1925-2001), Actor

p.s. Tomorrow is my birthday, so leave me some
of YOUR wisdom about growing. :-)

Sunday, October 14, 2007

My path?



"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

-- Erica Jong

Friday, October 12, 2007

Illustration Friday - Extremes

My extreme fear of death motivates so many drawings. Some days (like today) I'm actually grateful for it. :-)

"Whenever he thought about it he felt terrible.
And so, at last, he came to a fateful decision.
He decided not to think about it."

-Life 101

Thursday, October 04, 2007

For Erica and Sandra

Dreaming of the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. One of my homes away from home...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Yes, it was quite grand.

Just got back from seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time. Pictures just don't do it justice. But if you'd like to see them anyway, leave me a comment and an email and I'll send you a link! :-)

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Friday, September 21, 2007

Monday, September 03, 2007

They told me it would all make sense


"Life's like a movie, write your own ending."

--Kermit the Frog, from The Muppet Movie