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static electricity
Happy autumnal equinox, everyone! Though it was a beautiful day here with clear blue skies, something compelled me to start thinking about lightning. I look at it from time to time because it’s...
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snowy painting
The weather here has taken a turn for the wet-and-rainy, and the first brisk hint of autumn is rapidly giving way to the first dips below the freezing point. Pumpkins of various types have recently...
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Is it really december?
I’m back! Here’s a little sketch from home. (I was too busy dozing in front of that woodstove with that cat on my lap to get much done in the last few weeks, but now I’m back at it.) Also while I was...
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2010 calendar preview
I couldn’t decide on a font, so I did everything by hand. (This is also handy for me, because if I write anything on the calendar it will look just like part of the design. The handwriting will match!)...
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The Bear God
To the Ainu, every creature was also a god, and shape-shifting was commonplace. The Bear God, “Chira-Mante-Kamui,” was considered the head of the mountain gods. The Ainu would capture bears, and...
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IF theme: "adrift"
Whew! Barely got this one done in time. There was just too much happening this week. I decided to go a different route with this than I was originally thinking. More of what it means to me to feel...
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IF theme: Brave
This week I’ve been reading Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” (an excellent book by the way,) and thinking of all the countless stories where the hero must go out into the unknown and...
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IF theme: “Expired”
This one goes out to all those who hate to clean out the refrigerator. (Like me.) Here’s a sketch of the mold monster that I came up with first. It was smaller and cuter then: The post IF theme:...
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Illustration Friday: “Journey”
This is page 31 from the upcoming book, Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth (to be released in May.) I thought it was appropriate for this week’s Illustration Friday theme of “Journey.” Read more about...
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The Chinese street market
At long last, I have finished my latest painting. I reinvented it about five times over the last few days, scanning and copying and adding bits of paper collage and copying and repainting… until I...
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