Black and White for No Reason

DeKooning Meets Mad Magazine; They Both Have Their Eyes Closed

And Chaos Ensues

In the Dark Room

Heat Wave: Morning Light

Sometimes I Almost Get It

Sanity is Over-rated

Be Afraid, Very Afraid

I can look at a de Kooning and make these sort of interesting images that don't actually look like de Koonings. But if I look at myself, or at nothing, and try to make a similar drawing - well, it doesn't work. I can see what he drew, and how it relates to reality. But when I look at reality, I can't see what he might have drawn. And I can't see what I might draw in response to what he might have drawn... Never mind, this is getting too complicated.

de Kooning Week Continues

Still Crazy After All These Years

(Left-handed De Kooning)

iDraw: Still Relaxed After a Few Days Off

Seussical!

A friend is involved in a performance of Seussical but I'm not going to be able to make it to Boston to see the show. If you're closer to Boston, please check it out! Meanwhile, the invitation inspired me to imagine myself as The Cat in the Hat - fits right in with all my other hatted portraits!

Scrunch-face

Color My World

And That's All I Have to Say About That!

Self-Portrait as a Dancing Swirly Girl

My goal was to draw a face using the Doodle Top Dottie gave Ann, however something else happened, no doubt influenced by this morning's perusal of David Friedheim's Scribble & Wiggle

Wooly Julia

The latest little ap we've downloaded to my iPod touch is Wooly Willy, which allows you to draw 'magnetic shaving' mustaches and other hair on either the traditional Wooly Willy image or any image of your own. Here Ann and I have collaborated in giving a previous portrait some additional facial hair. The truth is my eyebrows are a little wild and getting wilder as I get older - so this may not be so far from some future truth. As Picasso famously replied when told Gertrude Stein did not look like his portrait of her "She will...".

This image also seems apropos of printmaker printmaker Ruth Paesch & my attempt to see the Frida Kahlo show at SFMoMA today... I can't say I was directly influenced by the show, however, because the museum was having a power outage and we went to Ocean Beach instead.

Ann says as long as I'm mentioning such fabulous women as Ruth, Gertrude and Frida, let's not forget Patti Smith.

OK, bed time...

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

I cut up an old landscape watercolor painting, planning to draw portraits on the back. However, I was drawn to the front and drew right over the old attempt at trees.

Portrait of the Artist Dreaming of Bed...

This Weekend, it's All About Doing Taxes

Look Ma, No Brushes!

Painted left-handed with magic markers and wet socks dipped in watercolour pans.

How'd It Get So Late?

Tomorrow, I'm Flying to Boston

To see the twins. I'll still be drawing every day but I may not post until I get back early next week.

Monday Night

Ghost Shadow

Yes, yes, my hand, drawing this very picture...

Post-Modern

Also known as 'Self-Portrait with Cow Eating Grass.' Don't expect this explanation to be funny if you are older than five...

Overworked

Well, I don't always have time to redo them when they fail - so here's a view of one that should have been a reject...

The Whole Kit 'N Kaboodle

Or at least almost every color in my 6 jars of Tombo markers.

Magic, Protective, Houdini Hat

With a tip 'o the hat and thanks to my Aunt Dottie, who knit this hat for me.

Statuesque

No Time, No Hat

Pom Pom Pom

Can You Bear It? (The Silliest Hat)

WW I Flying Ace (Grown Woman in a Silly Hat)

Carrot-Top, the Morning After

Batgirl's Secret Smile

Gottta Get This Done