connecting the heart from the inside out

                                                                     new illustration

This guy is fast, but I'm not

wouldn't it be fun to be faster than a zebra driving a fancy car, or how about just being friends with a zebra. I love zebras. I love saying the word zebra. Collage above revisited today!

tell me a story

some drawing collage happening here

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               today I finally felt it. the air has shifted and I am ready to soak it all in---------Spring!

Silkscreen

I did a silkscreen class this weekend. This is the image I worked on.

Learned lots and lots, especially since I was the only one in the class.

One thing is silkscreen, well atleast mulitcolor silkscreen is not so easy.

No, no, no. There are all kinds of technical mishaps, alignment issues, 

things called kiss marks which sounds like something you would want but not when it

comes to ink on your beautiful paper.

I am a messy maker and not sure if silkscreen is for me or not.

Will have to ponder that for a second or two more.

hmmmmmm.

this image below is the one I worked on in photoshop before the class.

Beyond Imagination

When I go to sit and create something without an idea for what I want to create but instead with a feeling, I am always joyously surprised with what arrives. I love these moments. I could have never imagined this drawing before I sat down to draw in my sketchbook. The drawing made it, not me or my imagining what to draw. When I get stuck creatively I think of these glorious moments and invite them to shower my life, flow through my hands, appear like an easy river dance. Yep, yep, yep, Did I mention I  love these moments. They are my reminders, my guidelines, my thank you very much universe, I will accept that gift you just gave to me because it is awesomely beyond anything I could have ever imagined on my own.

new illustration

                                                 collage then photoshop -whale boy

Brrrrrrrrrr

  
  Man oh man oh wooooo, it is brrrrrrrr today. Fine hour to sip tea, play with some collage, and voila!

Focus Pose

Playing with Color

 Brain Storm

I found these images yesterday and had fun adding more contrast with brighter colors and texture.

From a Drawer, Watch Dog

I love our big dog. He is away for a few days while we go away,

 and today I found myself staring at this old sketch. I must miss him already. 

Green Eyes

                          Playing with this image last night, green eyed figure growing more green eyes

Doggie Dreams

Have been wondering about dogs and their dreams. hmmm, I wonder what this is one is dreaming about

snow, definitely dreaming snowballs

This is Ferdinand a French Bull dog having  

a flying flipper dream.

                                                        dreaming that the power in his tail can open doors.

Brain Storm

Have been thinking a lot about ideas recently, not really where they come from but what to do with them when they arrive. I think I have a tendency to live in this idea making place, you know ("dwell in possibility"). I am working on bridging the idea making stage to the reality building one. I just need to learn how to pick the sturdy ones. While I was brain storming the actions in brain storming, this image rained. hmmmmmm.....(Have been reading Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky) which certainly explains this little blurb...

Something to Ponder

3d collage

Recently I have noticed I really like the word CORRIDOR. I like saying it. The more I say it the more I like it.
Corridor, Corridor, Corridor.
It is starting to sound like car door. Corridor evokes mystery in me. As if traveling through or by corridor has the ability to create a deep experience, a deeper one than traveling through hall, a hall.  A hall sounds like work or requires a certain dress code. It has sides that wall. A hall connects two or more rooms through straight movement.
A hall has point a and point b or c or d. I do not lose or discover any long songs in a hall.
A corridor echos.
If I travel by corridor it could take days, months, years to ever arrive beneath a door.
I can meet an unnamed you in a corridor,
and we can eat something blue, answer questions with ribbons as tongues,
 from heart to mind and back through again.
Corridor or Hall? Something to ponder

New Collage

Crazy Bird

                                                  Yesterday I felt a bit like this....
                                                  It must be the influence of a bird I keep hearing sing
                                                  its most beautiful clear whistle tune at 4:30 am inside my pillow.
                                                  Who knew there were such crazy birds singing in Brooklyn?
                                                    

Collages

                            

                                    These collages were made from the NY Times Design Section.

                           The first is a book cover for a pretend novel titled: Color Me Way Nightly.

Tree Peeps

          
                                                            a growing I see I see tree
                                                                walks through me
                                                                  to see see seeing
                                                                an I see I see tree
                                                          
                                                        
                                                        

                                                            
                                                             water me water me water me tree

playing 3d, in process

This is the same image posted a bit ago but now I am playing around with putting him in a 3d setting.

It was strange but a gust of wind game through my studio and blew this little fellas hair just perfect.