Moods

Brief sketch of a truck I saw on the freeway. I was more interested in the symetry of the lines created by the light poles. I am obsessed with streets and light poles. I have been taking a few notes here and there. Mostly ideas for cartoons. But I have had little motivation to do any serious drawing. It ebbs and flows with my inner dialogues and subsequent moods. Every where I go, I only notice colours, patterns, shapes, contrasts, compositions. They never translate into anything good. I notice the bottoming out of my mood in a half assed effort like this, followed by a flurry of intense activity.

Autumn

Adolescent Cherubs at the Birth of Venus

OK. I know this is completely inappropriate in many ways but after seeing this, I couldnt resist.

If you read my main blog SUPERMARKETMONKEY, you will have noticed that I have been posting a couple of pretty rough looking cartoons of late. I have recently developed an interest in this medium, and so have been working at some more polished pieces. They always look unpolished to me, no matter how hard I try to polish them. Its not exactly biting satire, but its a start.

Keep an eye out for a blog of my cartoons in the next few months.

Trees

Pencil on Paper

I heard a successful Australian landscape artist say that art comes from the gut. Theres got to be a balance between the discipline of training and practice and the mysterious thing that is the creative impulse. I think I will spend the rest of my life trying to figure those two things out.

Powerpole

Powerpole

Coloured Pencil on paper

Garden Hose

Garden Hose

Pencil on paper

Road with Trees

Road with Trees

Pencil on Paper

More Pencil

Panel Beater On the Corner

Pencil on Paper

Front Yard

Front Yard

Pencil on Paper

Pencil Sketch

Pencil Sketch

This is the actual scene I tried to capture from memory a couple of posts back in "50." Done in pencil, it has a softer feel. I have been looking at some modernist Canadian Landscape painting on a weekly basis in a waiting room recently. Stuff I have never seen before that interpreted the rugged Canadian landscape in a unique way. This, plus a couple of articles on the Chris O'Doherty exhibition have been feeding the need to try streetscapes again. This may become a painting.

Self Portrait with Blue(s)

Self Portrait with Blue(s)

Pen on Paper

As a child, drawing was an escape and provided relief from intolerable emotional pain and worthlessness. As an adult, it is no longer an escape from pain but a way of integrating it.

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