So we were headed to my signing yesterday, and we passed the place with the giant metal chicken. Their LAST metal chicken. Oh god! What if I went to the book signing and returned and they were giant chickenless? What if some clever bastard got to the chicken before me? "Look!" I said. "We’re running early. I NEED THAT CHICKEN." Kevin looked […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
So much of birding is luck…I glanced out the window and saw, from the exact right angle, a bird shape on the edge of the garden. It was exactly the same color as the ground, a gray brown shade, and it could just as easily have been an optical illusion, like the one hummock that […]
The snow melted away to nothing. I found myself prowling the garden section of Lowes Tuesday, fighting the mad urge to throw twenty bags of dirt in the back of the Vibe and taking them home to set up the bed that I plan to put in this spring. (Last year was the central island bed–this […]
In what can only be described as a meteorological Dick Move, yesterday’s sixty degree weather has been followed with a forecast of snow. Meanwhile, I’ve been obsessed with rabbits in plague-doctor masks for a couple days now. Weird how these things go…something about them seems familiar, but I don’t know if somebody else is doing rabbits in […]
I am so very, very ready for spring. Generally I’m fine with winter. Ten years in Minnesota has inured me to it–that spring could arrive in February is so laughably soon that it usually surprises me. This year, however, I am feeling a serious jones for spring. There’s a whole flock of chipping sparrows on the feeder, […]
There was a crazy mixed media moment somewhere behind this… Gorman’s Rabbit II Also! SongCoyote! If you are reading this, please send me an e-mail! I have your sketchbook, but there is no e-mail address in it, and I want to make sure I draw the right thing in it!
Still fooling around with gel medium. And rabbits. Verdigris Rabbit I thought this one was a companion piece to the Wolf-Ate-Them rabbit–I started them at the same time–but it’s incredible how much the difference between the shiny transparent surface and the opaque matte one changed my perception of the piece. So I guess it’s related. I’d […]
KEVIN: So the piece you declared was an abject failure and you hated it…people are asking if you’re auctioning it and writing stories about it?URSULA: Yes.KEVIN: Here I am, sweating and bitching and going nuts trying to write this thing for church, and your abject failures are wildly successful?URSULA: Apparently so. KEVIN: Gynnnaaaaah!URSULA: But for perspective, […]
Grah. This one only barely works in reality–it doesn’t work at all in the scan, since the super-shiny glassy-metallic bits that break up the composition got lost completely. Bugger. The Wolf Ate Them Oh well, at least I managed to get the bird beak out of the rabbit’s butt…
The first of my experiments with psuedo-encaustic…this one turned out too glossy and too obviously acrylic for my taste, but the results are still kinda interesting… Curious Quail And some little ACEO-sized sketches of rabbits I was fooling around with last night… Rabbit 1Rabbit 2Rabbit 3 I used to draw a lot of rabbits as a […]