There are some things that are best left unsaid if nothing else will sprout from it. But it's nice to take a new meaning and make it your own. Happy Thursday!
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This is Pickles at play. Happy Sunday fun day!
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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.
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Playful rendition of skeletons, including a conehead.
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I got this idea for a portrait with peppers stuffed in someone's mouth while riding the train yesterday and starting off into space. Only now while browsing did I realize it's reminiscent (but not really) of Matthew Barney's Cremaster. It's interesting how most ideas are not original at all. We share a collective memory of a collective life.
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A minimalist drawing sprouted a pig and a brain. I'd like to say I know why. In any case, happy Friday!
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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.
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I started this watercolor in a different direction and ended with the California Northern Flicker. I love how patterns are so therapeutic to create.
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Watercolors are certainly becoming my favorite medium especially on days like today. A dribbling heart poised in mind.
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I found this beautiful photograph by Matthieu Paley of a man drinking salty yak milk tea. This is my illustrative take on the image.
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I want to start building more environments in my drawings so here goes my first take.
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I used an imprint from the previous drawing as a base here. Since I have felt pretty restrained by my head as of late I'm leaning toward more brusque strokes. Inspired by constellations I drew with my eyes closed, voyages I dream of taking, and colors I yearn for this Spring. Happy Friday!
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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.
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I had an impromptu drawing session today, drawing on my friend, Kirsten's journal cover. It's a portrait of her dog, Bailey. Turns out he dislocated a disc so it's especially meaningful today. Wishing a quick recovery for this cute pup!
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I call this "Cat Interrogated." :)
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A friend gave me a field guide book to the birds of California not too long ago, and I've been discovering so much in the book. Here's my more colorful re-interpretation of the American White Pelican.
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An imagined landscape that convinces me I need to visit the Southwest soon.
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I decided to exaggerate the eyes, thinking of Modigliani and Frida Kahlo's technique.
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I started off by thinking of an MTA illustration by artist Marcos Chin. I've seen it on the train a bunch of times and I really enjoy it. You can check it out here. His use of lines to define all of the characters' contours is lovely and I wanted to play with that idea. But then I started listening to Radiolab and a story on the fight to conserve a bird called the Kirtland’s warbler and at some point I evidently thought of "The Red Balloon." There's also some 80's rock hairdo going on here. I went with it all.
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