Illustration Friday - Alphabets

Because of darkness we can see light

Wish you were here :-)

I'm off for a few days to the beautiful mountains and lakes in central Idaho. Be back soon, promise!

Pictured: Goat Lake, in the Sawtooth Mountains.

Illustration Friday - Visitors

They are coming, and they will help me. ;-)

Hi Mom.

Still thinking about you. In honor of my mom, who passed away August 21, 2003. :-)

3 ladders

Ladders are a favorite (or favourite, if you're from some strange place like down under) subject, as some of you remember from this post. This painting/collage is also a favorite, and is creative volley number 24 with Jen. :-)

Illustration Friday - Captain

Captain of my own dreams.

Famous in 31 days

So I was teaching a class in Syracuse last week, and while there I meet fellow blogger Leigh (murphy girl) for coffee. Next thing we know we are being interviewed by this wacky (and very funny) guy who is making a movie so he can become famous in 31 days. And the interview with us is now on his site! Click here for the interview, and here for his site, which explains the whole thing. He's completely nuts!

Illustration Friday - Emergency

now

"it is not death that a man should fear, but he
should fear never beginning to live."

---- Marcus Aurelius

my brother tim

Illustration Friday - Missing

Is something missing?
Some days it seems like it...

Tanya reads

Ed has magic hands

This is the drawing that inspired the painting of the same name. Ed and I went to the Dallas Museum of Art, and did some drawings of each other. This was my favorite.

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

-- H. Jackson Brown Jr., author

Illustration Friday - Moon

A painting entitled "Hang on, it's almost over."
(If you look closely, you'll see that he's mooning you.) :-)

hanging

Just wasting ink

Illustration Friday - Poem

A poem and a picture, both about boogers.

A ski trip long ago...

What are you afraid of?

Illustration Friday - Discovery

The most important discovery of all.

At the DMA

Illustration Friday - Geeky

High Sierra!

Tomorrow I will be going to the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, CA. It's becoming a 4th of July tradition. To all you Americans, have a great holiday, and to those of you in other countries, have a great Wednesday! :-)

Glorious Cheetah

"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else
is more important than fear."

-- Ambrose Redmoon

Illustration Friday - Twist

Here's the twist: this painting is called Not Inspired Again (click it to see it larger). Why is it when I'm not inspired, that inspires me?

Creativity is a funny animal. :-)

Why I like pink.

Another creative volley with Jen. :-)

Me and a large clothespin

Illustration Friday - Camouflage

So I'm in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (I'm wearing camouflage shorts) and a small, mean woman who works there tells me I'm not allowed to use a pen in the museum. When she wasn't looking I finished the drawing (which is below, of a Picasso and a Matisse on top of each other), then I went outside where I drew the top sketch, and put devil horns on her head. I felt better immediately. ;-)

Parked in front of a 7-11

Am I worthy?

Illustration Friday - Rejection

"We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

How far down?

"Where would I go, if I could go,
who would I be, if I could be,
what would I say, if I had a voice,
who says this, saying it's me?"

-Samuel Beckett
Stories and Texts for Nothing

Jess

It's all different now

"If there is no struggle,
there is no progress."

-Frederick Douglass

Ciao Italia, Ciao Sopranos, Hello JFC

This drawing was done on the way back from Italy some years ago. It seemed appropriate for the day after the Sopranos final episode. I liked the final episode, loved the way it ended. And I also liked the premier of John From Cincinatti (is it just me or does anyone else think that JFC also stands for Jesus F. Christ, which was said toward the end of the episode?) :-)

Jeff and the sun

Illustration Friday - Suit

Being lost just doesn't suit me any more.
Am I lost? Still working on that one.

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
- Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Just deluding ourselves

and no, I'm not afraid of salt. :-)

Illustration Friday - Your Paradise

Hello, my name is Willie, and I'm a Penaholic. :-)

All i want is to understand...

How about you?

"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe
Impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the
Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an
hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast."

--Lewis Carroll

In honor of Memorial Day

Although I did this drawing shortly after 9/11, it makes sense for today. Hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day!

Illustration Friday - Cars

Traffic jam. As usual.

Rain rain go away

my day

Illustration Friday - Signs

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

Looking in the rearview mirror

Self. Another creative volley with Jen. :-)