July 28, 2011

    Yes, yes... not much change, but some...

July 27, 2011

     I'm going to be going in a few days for a few days to Woods Hole (what a great name), so I've been busy with things I have to do before then. In the interest of keeping up my sketch a day commitment, but not spending more time than I can afford to on it, I decided to limit myself to about a half an hour. I could do a very simple sketch in 30 minutes, or I could do an installment on a more involved one. I chose to put in the first 30 minutes on a drawing I've been wanting to do, based on a photo I took of a deer skull I found by the shore and placed on a stump with vegetation arching over it almost protectively.

June 7, 2011

        This is a magenta vegetable brush with black nylon bristles. From the front he's a remarkably friendly looking fellow, but wants to lay on his side. Of course, this image file is named "skull brush" which brings to mind strange images...

June 1, 2011

    Being very tired, I'll end tonight's catch-up postings with this one. I probably spent the most time on it of the three posted tonight... 
    It's my favourite of the three, and only partly because I took my time with it. Partly it's simply because I am so fond of this little leather change purse. The little pink bow and playing-card heart features really make it! 
    Mainly though, it's because I am always so tickled when a sketch just serendipitously turns out to seem to have some subtle message or symbolic contrast... more so than when I deliberately attempt to include something of the sort. It just feels like a little gift! The change next to the unzipped skull was intended to "square out" the composition and provide some other circular shapes in other sizes, but during the sketching I realised I liked the many associations one could come up with around the images.  

Jan 7th, 2011

    We found this skull, which we thought might be a baby beaver skull due to the location, the teeth and the size.