Silly art and serious thoughts

Snowman in the Hood is a little rough, but I couldn't help myself...I was thinking instead of all these cutsy country snowmen, how 'bout selling Gangsta snowman, snowman from the hood, etc. Not pretty but surely a wonderful conversation piece...



But the serious thoughts I had or rather a philosophy revelation came to me while i was listening to someone at the crafts fair talking to one of the artists about God and art and creating stuff [ i can't remember the conversation but it was loud enough for me to hear it a table away]. and as i couldn't help but listen, the revelation was that Christians seem to want to talk to everyone about their prayer and what they feel about God, while the Asian religions are more introspective and silent, as in their meditation practices. Quite a subjective but somewhat academic comparison on my part.

more craft show musings and doodles

I tried as best I could to practice catching people in their natural or un-natural poses and habitat, really trying to concentrate on perspective and foreshortening and dimensional drawing in stead of my cartoons looking like they stepped out of "Flatland'.

But alas, my sillyness did get the better of me....

Crafts fair

I spent the weekend sitting at my table at a local crafts fair...did ok, money wise but of course not what i put into it. Pairing down the 'crafts' stuff now and re-focusing on the art and the creative process to express my soul and thoughts.
There was a lady across from me who had scads of stuff - country snowmen, little jewelry, wreaths, stuff like that. and looking at the snowmen, i had some strange ideas..aka this 'homeless' snowman..will post the one i did ' snowman from the hood' latter.

work frustrations

the scribbles tell it all.....

meeting mania

more woof with MS Paint...what else would you do sitting in a meeting, with your laptop on your lap [lol], your PPT briefing finished, and no internet or LAN connection so you can send hate mail out and about? Why create art, silly! What else.

Ruby sits thru more meetings

what better way to practice your craft than to draw people in meetings!

Hair rage

I thought of this on the way to work as i sat behind a car in traffic with some shaved heads in it. And I was thinking that now you see shaved heads on lots of guys...black, white, young , old. Lots of guys do this to look cool, many just to avoid looking like a guy who is losing his hair. Got me thinking to the good old days of the comb over, still prevalent on some older gents, and how it was the rage [along with copious quantities of hair spray!] - and it just struck me - what if some guy with a comb over was walking down the street into a strong wind, and really didn't know what the wind was doing?

it just seemed funny to me...

Disperate drawings..

but yes, all the same, they are weird