Resurrecting Mrs. Swift

   Every year, there is a show in Chicago about motherhood that I'd like to enter, but some of the pieces I have with that theme aren't in a presentable shape, or I don't have possession of them. The Scaffold painting I've been working on is one of them, and this is another. I just ordered a big mat board from Dick Blick, so that I can adhere these small panels onto a larger substrate. Then, my plan is to adjust the values so that it has higher contrast. The two panels that are missing have an error in size (I could explain why, but chalk it up to grad school and having to make-do on a schedule) and have to be re-drawn. Part of today's work involved cutting the new paper for those drawings. 

    This image started out as a very small drawing and then bloomed into an image for one of the paper quilts I made for my thesis show, titled, Mrs. Swift Learns to Speak Boy. The problem with the quilt and it's sister, Dreamer in Training, is that they are too fragile to enter in any competition where they would have to endure any amount of handling. I recently found the drawings that I used to make the prints for the quilts, and thought I should try to get them into a more presentable form. I hope I can do it.

A Murder of Crows

For IF: The crows swarmed around the door, which was a portal to the other dimension.

Vacant

I did this little drawing as the back for an artist trading card. Since it is merely decorative, I am submitting it for IF's topic this week, vacant.

New Growth

Punchline

IF: How do you confuse a guitar player? Put a piece of sheet music in front of him!

Kappa

For IF's challenge: packed.
A kappa is a pretty disgusting creature in Japanese literature, whose head is hollow like a bowl on top. It attacks human beings in a rather rude way and has a fondness for cucumbers. One can trick it by bowing to it; when it returns the bow, it spills the water in the bowl that is its head, and therefore loses its power and becomes harmless. This kappa has had even more bad luck and lost its body entirely. His head is now used for storing light. This drawing was made with graphite on coquille paper.

Family Portrait

For IF's topic this week: similar


This is a drawing about grafted families. It was done with graphite on coquille paper.

Administrative Oni

Oni are figures from Japanese folk literature and are like ogres in Western stories. There are some administrators who would eat tender victims rather than compromise their bottom line. This is a picture of how I imagine them.