The Dream Crushers – Number 2
the idea: a meat tenderizer
(pen and gouache)
- please note: despite the vague resemblance, that man head is not el husbando.
Posts published in July 2013
The Dream Crushers – Number 1
the idea: a dream crusher + storage unit like ghostbusters
(pen and gouache)
What I Read This Week: July 26, 2013
About What I Read This Week: I read a lot. All the time. Too much. I’d like to be held accountable. During my day-to-day, I keep a Google doc that I update with an article name, URL, and a quote of everything I read or watch. I blog the list every Friday.
Finally, it’s here! A week I didn’t over-read. I get very tired. And this was a reaction to having one week to myself after much disruption over the month. Also all that extra reading time went into watching the bear cam. Amazing nature!
Real, Actual Books
- Learning from: Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
- Forgot this at camp and missing: The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
- Fantastico: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Slow going: The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
- Makes for bleak dreams: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
On The Internets
- Analog Desk Inspiration from The Note Passer
- In Their Words: Edna Glaze
- Part 2: There Will Be A Space by Jillian West
- Honey, It’s America. You Can Do Whatever the Fuck You Want by Jillian West
- On hamtini – quote from Rick Webb
- JUROR SAYS SHE OWES MARTIN’S PARENTS APOLOGY
- Grim Sleeper Returns: He’s Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA
- Contemplating Friday: Your office, the café
- Forty Days of Dating (a handful of the entries)
- Netflix’s No-Name Show Beating “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development”
- Watched: Natasha Lyonne Opens Up About Her Heroin Use – The Rosie Show
- NYT Reporter’s Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue
- Trainwreck trailblazer Natasha Lyonne’s new shot at the spotlight
- Raster graphics on Wikipedia
- Vectorization (image tracing) on Wikipedia
- Listened: Girl Talk mashes Daft Punk & Michael Jackson, Kanye West & Marilyn Manson
- Snoopy’s Wikipedia page – Doghouse, “One strip ascribed Snoopy’s ability to sleep there to his ears, which—like the feet of a perching bird – “lock” him to the top so that he doesn’t fall. How his typewriter balances there (let alone other neighbourhood kids) is never explained.”
- When Bigotry Came to My Book Reading: A Muslim Feminist’s Love Letter to Cambridge
- Cartoonist Wendy MacNaughton has a Sunny Outlook on Never Under Dressed
- Travis Morrison’s Favorite Things To Sing At Choir
- The Dismemberment Plan Open Up on New Album ‘Uncanney Valley’ on Rolling Stone, “”I hate to say it, but it’s like that line from Tropic Thunder about ‘Never go full retard.’ That segment is amazing – they should show it in every art school and in Julliard. You just want to do it; you want to be so ‘this’ and so ‘that.’ So much so that the end product is over-thought.”
- Watched: VHS, This Woman Really Loves Sponges
- Watched (for way too long): brooks falls – brown bear & salmon cam
- It’s Rare That The Daily Show Slips Out Of Satire And Into Anger. This Is One Of Those Times.
- Watched: Obama: ‘Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago’
A Few Favorite Watercolor Donuts
I don’t share many of my watercolor donuts. Not sure why that is, especially since I started with donuts, so the not-sharing changes now. Here are some of my absolute favorite donut watercolors. I won’t sell the originals, but I’m working on prints right now.
This is the first glazed yeast donut that I ever really loved. And no, not the anemic top donut, just the bottom one.
And then a really fun old fashioned beneath an OK one.
And finally, a cruller and its shadow. And yeah, not 100% correct, but I enjoy it. This one is pretty new on the donut-creation timeline.
It seems strange that each of these donuts are brown, and not just a little—they are muy brown! Not a sprinkle in sight. Perhaps that’s why I like them so much. The other colors of the rainbow appear when you know where to look. They’re brown, but then again, not really.
(Would you like a donut of your own? Check my etsy store—April’s Magical Donut Galleria.)
Playing with Gouache: Ring Pops and a Banner
I learn new things every day, every week. It’s unavoidable. For example, I now know that you cannot scan flourescent gouache. Fun!
Just like the donuts, I felt to paint ring pops. Started with a sketch.
Moved on to over-do-it city. Restraint is not a strong suit. See the wishy-washy black edges? I drew everything with a Tombow marker first, which melts with water. An unintended effect!
And then a final, solitary Ring Pop… of DOOOOOM. I rather like this little fellow.
Another idea that manifested itself in my brain—a mexi-banner. Which is awesome, except for that terrible script. Ah, one day! I see more of these banners in my future.
And I look forward to the day that I reflect on these blog posts and see how woefully deficient I was in my skills. Cannot wait. I am aware that this rough, hairy on the edges. It needs loving care, and the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing. I’m not that person… yet.
In the meantime, I keep sharing, practicing, trying new things. One day, oh one day, I’ll be nothing but proud.
