Tuesday, October 17, 2017

REVERIE


A state of being pleasantly lost in ones thoughts; a fanciful or impractical idea or theory; an instrumental piece suggesting dreamy or musing state.
I started drawing this piece the weekend Harvey hit, which was also the week after the Solar Eclipse. I was supposed to go home and visit my parents but the trip got cancelled due to the anticipated rain. So Plan B happened - which was really a non plan of wine, musing, and music. Solar Eclipse, Hurricane, Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind. All things outside of the normal repertoire.  I think I see a little of all of those things in this so that's my best guess as to where it came from. Convergent and divergent things happening at once - fascinating to a degree, and something else to another degree. I don't quite know what that something else is, but it looks like my pens were trying to zoom in and see. I do know it's a peaceful pattern that merges with a manner that doesn't offend.

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

NCB

No Chance Band - cover art.

19" x 24"

SOLD

RAINMAKER

Kind of looks like lightings, and kind of looks like rain.  Kind of looks like a dried creek path and kind of looks like rushing water. It is for certain, a page of blue - so I'll just call it the Rainmaker.

5" x 7"

UMPQUA I


Thundering water, dancing water, along with the trees.  I started this thinking about how we feed each other by the things we give, or how we 'disrupt' another's path by the things we give (or don't give). Those things can feel like a thunder storm enclosing or a graceful dance ensuing.  Then you look and see the reflection of those things, realizing that you have become your surroundings.  In this umpua-ness situation, it is a beautiful and unintentional symmetry. 

5" x 7" 

Sunday, July 30, 2017

UMPQUA III

I had a season of blues, reds, and branches.  I know it was a time of me seeking out what was next.  I ran across a song "Umpqua Rushing" by Blind Pilot.  I was drawn to it from the first listen, for unknown reason initially, then I actually stop to listen into what I am drawn to.  It's always the yearn and seek sort of song that gets me, has been since I was a tot that had no reason to relate to a lost love song.  Makes me laugh in retro, and weepy in present.  However, Umpqua.   What does that word mean?  I'd never seen or heard it before.  Enter...Google.  Thunder Water...bring across water...dancing water.  I had drawn these before i looked the word up so it was a somewhat kismet moment to read what the word meant in relation to what I'd drawn from the feeling of the song. From the song, for this drawing specifically, "Your blackened branches drifting through my water...I saw my own water rushing back to me"

3" x 5" 
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