There was a lot of stuff I was supposed to do today. Instead, I did this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34058768/ It’s one of those “Hello, where did you come from?” things. My brain feels like elderly corduroy. Will I be allowed to paint cute hadrosaurs for an art show now? Will my brain beat me up, leave me […]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
I look out the back today and see what looks like a council of rodents–baby bunny, squirrel, and cotton rat, all sitting within a foot of each other, not bothering each other, just sitting. (Ironically, the cotton rat, half the size of either of the others, is the only adult of the bunch–the bunny is […]
They’re running a show about poetry on the radio, which drives me to share one of my favorite poems with anybody who has the misfortune to be within earshot. (Blogshot?) Inside water a water wheel turns. A star circulates with the moon. We live in the night ocean wondering What are these lights? This is […]
I am 29 today! I sort of feel as if, staring down the barrel of 30 as I am, I should arrange to have a crisis, and roam the streets moaning “But what have I achieved!? What have I done with my life?!” and then perhaps join the Peace Corps, but in fact, I feel […]
I was defending the cat from an evil jumping spider when James began calling me from the back step. “Hon! Hon! You should–you gotta see–oh man–” “What? What? THERE’S A SPIDER!” Deciding to leave the spider to its own devices, the cat and I came out to join him on the back step. “What was […]
An exhausting morning in the garden here, but a productive one. Got some astilbe and joe pye weed in the ground in the neglected damp shade bed. Then…weeding. Our neighbors across the way are dreadfully nice people and have a lovely yard, and they came over and helped us identify a lot of weeds. Pin […]
I stepped outside to look at the garden, as I do every few hours–whether waiting for something new to surprise me, or half suspecting that it will vanish when my back is turned, I’m not sure!–and I startled a hummingbird hanging in the air over the lilies. He looked at me, a bit belligerently–this was […]
Today, I went looking for the post office, to pick up a letter, which turned out to be a payment for something from Warsaw, Poland, which was kind of ironic, because I had just mailed a set of prints to an unrelated person in Warsaw an hour before, which, granted that is the sum total […]
So I’m working on a Digger cover, which will be very similiar to the happy troll and squash piece, but in a cover-friendly format, and I’m drawing this troll. And the troll doesn’t look right, and doesn’t look right, with that nagging not-quite-right-ness at the back of the brain, and the face is just not […]
Revisiting an old coloring style briefly, to bring you a happy troll in flowers, and a disgruntled squash. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33754118/