Splash

Asterisks

An old calendar picture, tea wrappers, a chocolate bar wrapper and some peta materials get transformed into something new..

Friday Night nerd show

Some things are too pretty to throw away

Individually wrapped tea is one of my pet peeves. It just seems extremely wasteful to process paper and then throw it in the recycling right away, especially when you drink the amount of tea that I do. I wasn't expecting this box of tea to be individually wrapped and was dissapointed that it was, but the wrappers were so pretty that I saved them, and later ended up using them as the border for this picture which started as a little doodle with a green pen.

This painting, which I have previously featured on this blog, went missing. I have a bunch of paintings stacked on top of each other on my desk leaning against the wall, for lack of any other way to display them, and they all fell over a couple weeks ago. I put them back, and didn't notice until later that one of them wasn't there. Well, today they all fell over again, and that's when I noticed that the missing painting was stuck on the back of one of my other paintings, caught underneath the wooden frame. Mystery solved!

Purple Mountain Majesty

Cosmic Journey

Jumble of 'art', and a strawberry pineapple

Postcards from a faraway place (located within my lateral orbitofrontal cortex)

Watercolour, marker, calligraphy pen, and india ink on watercolour paper.


Watercolour and india ink on watercolour paper.


Watercolour, acrylic, and metallic pigmented ink on watercolour paper.


Watercolour and marker on watercolour paper.


Watercolour, calligraphy ink, and india ink on watercolour paper.


Watercolour on watercolour paper.


Ink on paper. This is the only one that isn't a postcard, the rest will possibly someday travel in the mail to reach some special people.

Leaf Pinwheel

Watercolour painting. I was debating cutting off the right side, as it doesn't quite fit in, but I'll leave it for now.

Sketches

Some good old fashioned nerdiness

Space robots

Robots, robots, marching from space
Fists clenched, teeth grinding, no sense of grace
Original Nintendo, 1985
Neon jackets, MCMLXXXV, greeting with high fives
Sitting in basements with Nintendo Power stacked high
Feeling no sense of this space robot jive

Robo commander, grisly fierce voice
Hidden by electric music and automated gunfire
Marching in line, original, heat map, inverted, back again
We have no sense of time.

Mini go-karts

Mixed Up

Octopus trees of the desert and blood stars of the sea travel to us from National Geographic's 1991 Engagement Calendar, titled 'The Wonders of Nature'. In the process, things got a little mixed up as the sky and ocean got confused by their own metaphor inducing names. They landed in the present in somewhat of a different form, but it would seem that it is better that way, for now.