written snapshots
A motley collection of pieces I ve shared on social media. Since I ve spent more time on books and less time online, there s only a few left unless things switch up again. We ll see. , Whenever I get a new tool, I start with the (super creative) word test. In this case, it was a big fat [ ]
I was hesitant about returning to pencil so soon after kilo, but mike wanted to be sharp. , , , , , Two months ago, a family of Hawaiians moved into the neighborhood—dad, mom, two sisters, six and three, and the little brother. They quickly joined the kids playing in our cul-de-sac. After school ended, [ ]
Raw was done with a wide hake brush on 12 18 sulfite paper. I used a light grey muddy wash and pushed the color to blue in the computer. , I love how the rough ruling pen meets the sharp flat brush on Libra. , Jumping with Roman Capitals and popups , I often have trouble [ ]
I adore writing each of these letters in cursive—L, i, m, a. But this piece wanted to be rough after trying some elegant versions. , , , , , paper slinkies months ago, we saw slinkies at walmartbut we have too many toys recently he got into origami(pulling up videos on youtube and asking me [ ]
, Early this year, an acquaintance asked me to graph this line from a patient who had passed. She and her family were just lovely, and she was an intelligent woman and quite particular with her verbiage. There was a phrase that she used to say all the time and we (the hospice team) loved [ ]
I had a lot of fun with a pencil for graphing a graffiti style versal. The pencil lets me fly around with light lines to find the right shapes, but I can still erase or crank up the density and line weights to sculpt the shape to my liking. Either way, it s less stressful than [ ]
Last month, we watched the girl play Door #2 at the middle school.A small bit, accentuated with clearing table of the mad tea party.Like all the parents in the theater, my heart was on that stage for three nights. , , Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy [ ]
This feels properly swoopy with a nice plum accent for this lovely word. , , , , , He started wobbly, paused constantly, tumbled a couple of times, but in an hour he was peddling down the straight away and making wide looping turns! between bike sessions we went to the playground.he s always passive on [ ]
I found a children s book of Robert Frost and graphed a few short poems. Each of these fit on a single sheet, though the crop was expanded in the computer and colors were tweaked. Questioning Faces and The Rose Family are both public domain, but The Secret Sits remains under copyright (1936). , Questioning Faces [ ]
Along with my current gothic scripty kick and the standby pointed brush cursive, this chunky wide brush has been consistently satisfying, especially when pushed to the extreme. , , , , , He taped a red jar cap to the wall and pressed the button each time he headed out to school. The boy tripped [ ]