July 16, 2009

outside:



inside:

July 10, 2009

From a while ago, on a plane, heading west.

June 23, 2009

From the waiting room at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital's emergency room.

June 15, 2009

five from utah.
one en route and four from the road.
one more from the return soon to come.

southwest airlines, OAK to SLC:


off kane county road, moab:


down hole in the rock road, escalante:


perched on a hill at kiva, escalante:


from the sand, coral dunes:

June 5, 2009

an unsuccessful departure, overthought and overworked (a reoccurring theme, it seems) - but movement none the less.


i'll be in southern utah all next week so no posts till after that. but plenty of red rock upon return. i promise.

June 2, 2009

top three are "what ifs" (living by a word), then the latter five are par for the course, save for one of plants from a stop on the road (if only we could sit and paint flowers without being elderly or insane all would be all right).

sorry it's not much, but it's all i have for you:

May 19, 2009

I promised i would post last weekend. i failed.
thank god someone else picked up my slack:

http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/entry.php?entryID=1272

(thanks, OKAT)

April 22, 2009

all this from a little book created a few months back containing observations made on a business trip to Virginia.

which is, of course, for lovers.

April 7, 2009

March 27, 2009

tough week.

March 22, 2008

one of the typical vein, giving credit where is credit is due (though credit still outstands), and three scratchboards inversed for an illustration gig, with two on the way, mine but not, like stepkids. yes, come thursday, i too am due to be a mom.

March 7, 2009

speechless.







and an old one, previously unreleased.

March 4, 2009

and now for something completely different:
scratchboard illustration, positive and negative.

March 2, 2009

a momentary detour.

February 22, 2009

i can't say i am entirely pleased to be posting everything below, but a promise is a promise, and ten is ten. so there you go. some forced, some fleeting - and a few, as always, with a risk of regret.

February 5, 2008

January 16, 2009

oakland, of course.

January 15, 2008

from the small letters on your left shoulder, a better view.

January 13, 2009

yes, yes, i know. been a while. i beat myself up more than you ever could, though not as much as i wish you would.

December 15, 2008

There's a first for everything.

November 26, 2008

November 23, 2008 (con't)

a couple more.

November 23, 2008

a few from a few months ago and it's probably obvious which ones those are but i just got round to painting them in and for want of time on a train i suppose it will have to do. driving to work again tomorrow... our trappings do just that, don't they.

they do.

November 1, 2008

October 31, 2008

Another Friday with friends (plus two from the commute).

October 28, 2008

I know, I know.






But,

October 16, 2008

The Middle Seat.

October 3, 2008

first four from the plane. last three from before - waiting for words, but they never came - and to be honest the blabbering in the first few seems a little forced, but given my travel schedule over the past 6 days, i am not going to beat myself or anyone else up for it.

August 21, 2008 (next day)

a handful of nickel drawings (5 second portraits of people walking outside the BART station)

August 21, 2008

August 17, 2008

The below from last night's Progressive Reading Series (http://progressivereadingseries.blogspot.com/).

Apparently, I am not the only person who lies about reading The Corrections.

August 15, 2008

August 12, 2008

if anyone has any suggestions on how to maintain the color/light of a drawing like this and the third one from yesterday's post when scanning, please advise. with simple pen drawings (meaning no added color to provide contrast) the image gets terribly washed out and i cannot maintain the hue of the paper (brown) - same paper as seen in the drawings from august 10.
i am working on an HP consumer model scanner. i know, i know, but it's what i've got.
much obliged.

August 11, 2008

top three things learned this weekend:
1. rapidograph over gouache is cut butter
2. hard edge bubble letters are a useful but spent trope
3. watch the road



cut butter:

August 10, 2008

a few days of brown paper, coffee shops and jews.

p.s. my scanner is acting up.

August 5, 2006

a risk. a few of these are experiments, in progress, and are well on the road to failure. but. learning a thing or two about failure recently, i've decided to keep trying. if not for the final product, for the process.

July 14, 2008

a month or so ago, in bob hope airport, on a plane trip from la to oakland, i lost a moleskin. as i remember it, it contained some of the best sketches to date. more likely it contained maybe 3 or 4 warbly attempts at neck napes and a couple thoughts on narcissism. the airport lost and found claimed they had it, and sent it to me. but what i got in the mail was not mine. it was a lined moleskin containing classroom notes on two things:
art history and sexual reproduction.
judging by the handwriting and equal focus on both topics, i am going to assume this moleskin was owned by a female.
if this is your moleskin, please let me know.
if you have my moleskin, please let me know.
we can trade back.
i promise, i only tore out the good parts.



nonies everywhere, and i suppose everyone has one:



the J:



kira on a plane from DC to NYC, reading, and silently judging the inadequacies of current air commuters:

May 31, 2008

a map of privately maintained public space in downtown SF:



personal addendum:

May 4, 2008

Dear Al,
Anticipation makes the heart grow fonder. (Thank you for your patience.)
All the below are in the mail.
Your friend,
w

April 9, 2008

March 31, 2008

March 29, 2008

March 28, 2008

March 26, 2008

March 12, 2008

Five from the commute, and one escaping it (revealing the inaccuracies of my depictions).

March 4, 2008

commuting to and from another laundromat, a brief lay-over in the bar.

A momentary departure from the commute: WASHATERIA, Guererro Street

Teresa Geary (who everyone should be lucky enough to know) asked me to be in a show she curated with Intersection for the Arts. Here are shots from the 3 hour long drawing marathon in which i drew, erased, drew, and erased portaits of people currently incarcerated on the window of the most famous laundomat in the Mission, Washateria. Thanks Mary and Katka for the photos.

February 29, 2008

a repeat, with relevant color:

February 26, 2008