random drawings

Katie allowed me to draw her - this isn't her, but it captures something about her. And she requested a ruff, after I said I'd made her look like a young Shakespearean actor.

San Francisco, and its patron saint, have been on my mind.

People in water.

the power of music

alexander workshop

animals

last seen...?

blue chickadees

I've been having some trouble recently with a project I am working on for a friend. Trouble is inevitable; in some ways I think it is indicative of a good, real, working process. Still, it is not fun. Not at the moment, anyway.

The trouble is that my first draft is by far my friend's favorite, but I can't use it, for silly technical reasons. And because I can't see it the way she does, I can't recreate it. I am trying.

But that in itself is a futile endeavor. I have to instead create the new something that will capture the spirit of the first, but be its own thing. 

And I have to realize: we are not always the best judge of our own work.

two horns, and the unification of Germany

I've been practicing rhinos for a project for a friend of mine. Somehow, Otto von Bismarck snuck in there too. And lo and behold, he looks a little like a rhino, too!

cup, tonight

apple time

I spent some time yesterday sitting on the grass between two lines of apple trees.

sunday evening

These impressions from the weekend remain. 

prussian blue

I think Prussian blue is a Favorite Color. Here is a silver tea strainer and spoon.