Bypassing the image

Buh! still reeling from the Roches at the Chrysler Museum last night.
And looking forward to rafting on the New River tomorrow. Don't ya just love summer?

Bright moon

A manipulated image and its original ink drawing. I'm seeing these, after so many days, as moving, changing, morphing, growing, living, moving on. Like me.

Foreground and background

This is the image that intrigues me most from this series... I hope that's not because it is the most anthropomorphic. A last anguished cry at the universe; a father regretting his spilt seed. BUT, I continue to be fascinated by the contrast between ink brush and pen tool. Foreground and background, where the important stuff happens.
Today is a lovely day, balanced between art and hard, physical work building a brick break wall in the back garden.

The other side

Okay, here's an illustration for today's business page in The Virginian- Pilot. It was fun and a rare occurrence.
What I like the most is the contrast between making art for the reader - helping to tell a story - and making art for me. This morning I was working on the big hawk wing drawing, lamenting its stiff quality, the way it was preconceived and sketched out and now is being filled in. Not what I usually do. The tension for me is between what seems to be static and what is ephemeral.
All things are temporary, here for just a short while.