Where are my sunglasses?

I once spent a summer in southern Italy at a graphic design workshop. Paul Rand (you may remember his IBM logo, below) was teaching and said to us more than once that "yellow needs white." Somehow I forgot that here ... he's right.

Again, George Tussing's river bank

No idea

But I love the clothesline and the bee.

Getting a little figurative

I don't know how this happened. It reminds me of some of my undergrad paintings (late '90s). I'll attach one or two. The scale is hugely different. This ink drawing is 8 inches x 8 inches. The paintings are about 7 or 8 feet x 5 feet. It's always about the negative spaces for me.

Boo

What I'm thinking about when I'm not thinking

When would I ever use pink for anything?

Just here.

A la George Tussing

Hal gave me a painting for our anniversary a few years ago, a beautiful landscape of black trees on a riverbank, by our friend and teacher George Tussing. I sat with it for a time, idly sketching. As usual, mine is a drawing of its negative spaces. 

It's cold, it's dark

A note about the collage and the ink drawings, if you haven't been with me from the start: They are all included in dedicated 8" x8" sketchbooks. My sources are mostly old National Geographic, some Red Bulletin and Sierra magazines. The ink drawings are made with a simple black ball point pen (I favor Papermate, 10 for about $3.

Zen spirals

Most of my ink drawings are about just drawing, not thinking.

I'm a little afraid of this color

My friend Emma gave me a block (rabbit skin glue?) and a silver stylus

And I wish I'd used it for this ... it's just ink on paper (a Papermate pen). 

Line

Here I discovered how to draw with paper lines. I'll find many uses for this.

In the waiting room

Float

In meditation

Whale thoughts float into the clear sky, and then float out again, leaving no trace.