RELUCTANT MANIFESTO

My images are personal reflections drawn impulsively, like a nervous tick or doodling in the margin. I make this work mostly for myself. 

Subjects include figures, objects, and text which speak to personal quandaries and emotional soft spots. The  process is  additive and generally focused on drawing, bookmaking, and water-based media.  Observation, abstraction, layering, obscuring, and re-finding line are important aspects.

At the moment I'm interested in drawing antiquated  man-made objects and sequencing them through time, as a way to think about narrative and in particular, nostalgia: the feeling of rediscovering an intense long-lost earlier feeling. Layering, flip books, gifs, circular animation, and series are all possible expressions of this idea.

*old photo of us, by Aaron Farrington, I think* 

DRIPS

Experimenting with drips, edges borders. In the second image,
I randomly made a white work area that became the field of the tape. Neither image is complete.

FEATHERS TWO WAYS

Feathers two ways, in progress. Thinking about relative size, on picture plane.

WHAT WILL/CAN TEXT DO IN THESE IMAGES:

• size of text, 
• color of text (light on dark, dark on light) 
• on object only, behind object, woven
• scrapped in, drawn atop
• etc.

THINK BIG(GER)

Starting my big(ger) paintings: 11 X 14.

Arches cold press 140lb with blue and red (and gold) acrylic grounds. What next?

FLIP BOOK TUTORIAL

How to create your own flip book video, very basic tutorial.

FLIP BOOK EXAMPLE

Found this Flip book and PLAN at The Design Place. I like how it incorporates text. How to plan my own sequence of  images?

FEATHERS

Still interested in feathers as an image: old feather (above) and new(below).