Playing With Light

My stab at paper cutting.

Two Elders

Bone sketch

Sketchy V

Laundry

I watched an ad for laundry detergent in which the smell made the lady weak in the knees. If this is the case, why is there no Gain scented deodorant? Or did it make her knees quiver because the chemicals were dissolving her neural matter, upsetting her equilibrium and rendering her a feckless heap of repugnant refuse?

Bad Medicine

I read the book "Bad Medicine" by John Reilly today. The book is a bit of an autobiography of judge John Reilly's brave move to address corruption, therefore violence, depression, suicide etc in the First Nations of Morley, Alberta and nationwide. It was highly enlightening about how our outdated, racist system continues to oppress people within our own borders while attention is diverted elsewhere. Great book, I hope people have the sense to read it a care about human rights.
It is published by Rocky Mountain Books 2010. www.rmbooks.com

Why? Why? Why?

Edmonton. -20

Nanaimo

I am on the ferry to Vancouver from Nanaimo. What a beautiful day!! It's warm, sunny. I'm sitting by the window like an old cat soaking in the rays.

Comox marina

Vancouver island has been relaxing as usual. There's something about the smell of the ocean that makes it so. Smelling salts that bring you from your day to day daze.

Eagle food

Six eagles were squabbling over this. The fish, not my sister.

Winter Wonder

Ah! R & R for RR

Portable Art Toolkit

1. Sketchbook. This should be small enough to fit into a pocket. Obviously the summer months will allow only smaller books. Don't buy a moleskin unless you want to look like a pretentious tit. That look is very fashionable this spring so I went for it.
2. Pen. This is completely open. I hate drawing with pens as they are as unforgiving as Palestine and Israel.
3. Pencil. Not shown as it was so forgiving the pope canonized it the day of the photo.
4. Conte. I love this stuff! I bought this neat little four color kit that comes in a padded cardboard container the size of a matchbox. The only disadvantage is that if you want to exhibit more advanced techniques with conte you will have to use your thumb or bring your favorite smudging tool along. And if you bring that well you might as well bring the paints and easel and the whole kaboodle and that defeats the purpose of discrete portability.

On Literature

Herman Melville is the crown king of run-on sentences.

Sketchy IV

Fourth installment. I'll leave you with the tribesperson. That's it for today.

Sketchy III

I don't understand the weird light on this one.

Sketchy II

I'm bored on the down time so I'm doing more sketches. This is on recommendation of a friend that suggested that my sketchbook not my iPhone should be an extension of my personality. I hope I got the quote right! Well I have a book full of nat geo pictures I need to interpret since, well, the only living model in the vicinity is me.

Sketchy

Today I pay homage to the finest; Leonardo Da Vinci. What a guy. He has inspired me to pick up the conte and copy his flat-nosed old man sketch.