Skulls and lulls.
Read MoreDay 126
A year ago I started combining the brain and heart to create a singular organ. I'm sure this has been interpreted in one way or another many times, but I've grown attached to the image and its symbolism for my own reasons. Mainly I'm drawn to the balance we struggle with between reason and emotion, logic and madness, love as something magical and intangible while at once being something practical and controlled by chemicals in our brain. I'm still exploring this and am excited to see what bubbles up.
Read MoreDay 123
Starting to get carried away with excuses on why I shouldn't publish drawings I've done, I stopped myself today and snapped a picture of this drawing watercolor as it is. As a whole I'm not liking it. But I enjoy elements of it on their own.
Read MoreDay 113
I don't know why I felt like combining these bones and organs together today but here they are. To me it looks like a skeleton cheer leader. :)
Read MoreDay 106
Started thinking about nurture versus nature and emotions versus logic. Sometimes it feels like we push one out of the way in order to attain an intangible desire.
Read MoreDay 105
Playful rendition of skeletons, including a conehead.
Read MoreDay 102
Bought a new gouache yesterday and couldn't wait to use it! Took to illustrating a skull from memory and continued on with cosmic dots.
Read MoreDay 93
After watching Lulu Miller's Creative Morning's talk I decided to take on some of her tips. You can say this is my brain yodeling to the paper and I'm glad it happened. When I started the drawing I was too attached to the original photograph I had found. Now you can see traces of this initial drawing but it's more like a trail a mouse would leave in the snow.
Read MoreDay 73
From thinking of the new Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, I remembered visiting the Bone Church in Kutná Hora when I was in college. I was happy to find some pictures I took from that visit. It's amazing to see the ornate nature we create with ideas of death.
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