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

Lions Lions

                                                                        a new collage

Discovering a Giant Strawberry...

                                                         ...  can make you sleepy

Old made New..updated image

This is an image posted awhile ago that I have revisited, replayed,

 and re-imagined with a new character. 

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?
                                                    

Love it!

www.monstrum.dk  One of my not so secret dreams is to build a playground sculpture. These guys are AMAZING. Who wouldn't want to climb and play and imagine all day in one of their structures. I think I may hire them to build me a house head in a tree over swirling rivers with floating window castle slides into open frog mouths. woohoo. LOVE IT, check them out.

Thank You Sendak!

I never tire of reading In the Night Kitchen. To me it is a perfect book. The words are fun to read, they sing while still telling a story. Every time I look at the images I see something new. It took me a few reads to notice the airplane above the bed, not sure how I missed that one. It is a slow quick book, meaning, I want to stay on every page but then before I know it, the book is over and I want to travel it again. This book reminds me to stay with every line, every word, every color, because in the end, they do add to something great. THANK YOU MAURICE SENDAK for your delight. You continue to inspire me.

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.

Heart Connect

  

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.

Often when it appears one is doing nothing...

actually something extraordinary is being born.

However, you just might not know what it is...

until sometime later.

These are new illustrations using collaged prints.

From a Blue-tiful World

                  

   I still believe in this little guy, and keep playing with ways to make him alive on the page.

                     These are current monotype's hot off my fingers. They portray a character named 

Bo Biddle from a picture book that is determined to be made.

Illustrations

pages from a mock up children's book in process

Still Believin'

                These are prints collaged and played with in Photoshop. They are PIPs (play in process).

    The birds are characters from a book that I put away for a bit but as of yesterday am pulling out again.

Between the pages!

 I wouldn't mind being discovered by a giant lady bug while browsing inside a giant book.

this is an old image that i am playing with again....i wonder what page she is on

 

 

Illustration

Some new illustrations made with my new friend, Photoshop. 

They combine printmaking, drawing, collage, and watercolor. 

If I were in a band

Just playing around here listening to some great music (The Head and The Heart) and wondering if I were in a band what our name would be. I would like to give the word Peghead a positive spin, with this being the name to an imaginary band and its debut cover. Now I am wondering what kind of music they would play. Something with a string instrument thrown in there and some bells and some water glass playing and an untamed voice, voices, that rise pressing into a high underneath dissolving any need for reason.

I invite a New Year