Drawing Club 78

Fustigate: to criticize harshly

Drawing Club 77

Occlusion: the state of being closed up or blocked off

 

This DC entry inspired a larger 20" x 30" inch painting going in The Arts Center's annual Fence Show at the end of this month.  Which is May.

Micron Penorosity

I've always been a pretty simple creature when it comes to supplies.  I have an idea and I move on it, my impulsivity keeping the tools on my drawing table sparse.  This has led to a fierce loyalty to those few tools I have at hand-- it's us against the world! Kind of like Thelma and Louise, if Thelma didn't have any real friends and the resulting loneliness led to an anthropomorphization of a pen to share an amazing road trip with that ultimately ends in a vehicular swan dive.

I've used Micron pens religiously since I was about twelve years old.  That's closing in on twenty years of using this one product! Two thirds of my life! Exclamation points!  I have tried other pens in the interim, but it always just ends up with my Microns and I excluding them and whispering maliciously while shooting them furtive glances.  I decided to reach out to Sakura, the company responsible for my inanimate soul mates, and share this with them.  A primo representative by the name of Leslie promptly got back to me, and with a refreshingly non-form letter at that. Just yesterday I recieved a supremely generous care package courtesy of Leslie and Sakura which I thought I'd share with you fine folks.

So the moral of the story is, there are several morals to this story.  The first being that the non-existant chance that I would one day switch pen brands has now been immolated in a sacrificial fire.  The second is that Sakura is as nice a company as you could hope to be behind a product you like.  The third is that Micron and I are eloping.  And the fourth and final moral of the story: drop your keys, get a bad dream.

Drawing Club 76

De rigueur: prescribed or required by fashion, etiquette, or custom

Sketchbook Project 2012

I stumbled across my entry into the Arthouse Co-op's Sketchbook Project back in 2012.  Artists were sent a blank sketchbook and given a list of themes to pick from.  The artist would then fill the sketchbook with their interpretation of said theme.

I chose "Jackets, Blankets, and Sheets" because I wanted to explore the act of covering something up and the reasons behind it.  For warmth?  To hide? To forget?

View my minimalist entry in its entirety here.

Draing Club 75

Indoctrinate: to instruct especially in fundamentals and rudiments

Drawing Club 74

Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time