palm springs

Ansel and I went to Palm Springs to visit his grandfather. When we got there, I realized I didn't have enough pink. If you've ever been to Palm Springs, you'll know that in order to convey anything about it, you need PINK.

So we found an art store and I got some pink.

I painted everywhere. On the paper bag our bagels came in (hooray, Townies!), on the free pad of paper in our hotel, which was quite pleasingly and surprisingly close to watercolor paper, on the airplane, on the street.

palm trees :)

little drawings

From various notebooks.

A couple of pieces from a Lego Advent calendar...

Some words from a song...

Colors, floating & interlocking...

An Advent/Hannukah candle.

Happy holiday season.

Wishing everyone much love, and light in the dark.

last seen...?

evening snapshot

I was about to reach for my camera (otherwise known as a hand-me-down iPhone) when I realized I could DRAW this scene instead!

sunday: time to play!

Yesterday I was trying out my gouache on different surfaces. I chose this yellow bird as my subject. The painting above is done on some glossy-ish brown paper. Here he is on acrylic paper: 

wild yeast

They ride the air, in search of fruit and honey water. Winged and fanged, they are irrepressible, unstoppable, the original rebels.

We've been making mead.

bad day bird

Bad things happened today. Or rather, things I felt were bad, but probably won't be bad, in the long run. Anyway, I sat down to paint and out came this bird, contemplating the abyss.