holiday iv: happy valentine's day

disaster on demand?

My holidays were belated because I was at Thinkwell for three weeks or so making trouble with some old classmates.

So Willi, Patrick, Linda, and I are leisurely lunching (sharing old war stories, gabbing about the perils of business, and bleeding our sad little artists' hearts) and, with our patented plein air skills, taking in our surroundings (shadows and textures, interesting signage....). 

One does wonder how lucrative the earthquake business is...

I guess it'd be a bit like that Uma Thurman movie: the one where the villain's company sold weather (messing with agriculture and travel; selling ecological terrorism to the highest bidder and such). 

My color is still suffering.  I think I need to pull a Mary Blair and have a transcendent color epiphany in some exotic country....pity I hate to travel.  Must learn to make do sans transcendence, I suppose.

medium: watercolor & ink, photoshop

holidays iii: happy belated lunar new year

 *yawn

Mine!

If you want to play, you have to give it...

Happy Belated Groundhog's Day, too

medium: photoshop

sisters

What if Rapunzel had never been traded for salad and lived a happy life at home?

She would probably have siblings with long hair galore.  She and her sisters (and hippy-haired brothers?!) would prance around with an entourage of soldiers and servants, valets and grooms armed to the teeth with dustpans and brushes, hairpins and brooms.  They would gossip deep into the night while braiding each others' hair, fight over their favorite dresses, and, after terrible tantrums, threaten to snip away a lock of another's hair whilst she sleeps unaware.  Of course, they would never go through with it.  Idle, harmless little firecrackers.
Hopefully, by the fourth child, their mother will learn not to covet her neighbor's parsnips.


This week's respite was inspired by a day spent with the Shin sisters, by, of course, The Art of Tangled, and by a sentence I read in the last Harry Potter book: "It was in Godric's Hollow that, but for Voldemort, [...h]e might even have had brothers and sisters."

medium: photoshop

holiday ii: happy new year's

Isn't it funny how the day solemnized for renewed resolve in regards to health, wealth, and correcting our wayward perceptions towards the haves and have-nots of the world follows those particular holidays earmarked for excess spending, gift exchanging, and indulgent eating?  Kind of like Mardi Gras before Lent.
medium: watercolor on watercolor paper

holiday i

medium: watercolor & ink on watercolor paper, photoshop

pets i: unusual sightings

Some time in the summer, I was driving over to a friend's house when, while stopped at a red light, I saw a man walking his pony like it wasn't anybody's business.

It was even a curious-looking pony (mayhaps groomed for shows or events) and it seemed particularly interested in a nearby nursery.
It was one of those inside-out moments when I wished my imagination was as rich as reality....

A couple of months later, whilst driving once more, I saw a man walking a very large turtle, on this occasion, without a leash. I suppose one wasn't necessary as turtles aren't likely to spring away, but the man nonetheless took care to walk between it and the street.

It made me wonder about what other interesting pets a person might have and the ordeals and trials that might come with their care...
medium: gouache & watercolor on watercolor paper