2000 Drawings

I haven't done too much art in the last few days, but I want to keep posting things regularly, so I can make a habit of it, and so you don't forget about me. :)

Today I'm going to post some stuff from my college years-- about 2000. I took a figure drawing class where (you guessed it) we drew nudes. A comment on nudity, quick: a lot of non-artists think of nudity as just a bunch of naked people. A sexual, crude sight. In art, they're not "naked," they're "nude," meaning that it isn't sexual or crude, it's a graceful form. My drawings don't show anything "R" rated, but even drawings that do are often not focused on the sexuality of the human form, but the grace and beauty of nature (and you'll know when it's about sex-- it's a whole different creature). Think of nudes as still-life. Forget the fact that it's a human you're looking at, and enjoy the beauty of shape. That said, here are the drawings. I hope you enjoy them.

Peter Piper

I'm currently working on illustrating a book... I got the idea in college when I had to illustrate a story, and I did "Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle..." and I thought, nobody knows their nursury rhymes any more, and it could be darn fun to illustrate them. So I created Peter Piper, who lives in a town where I hope several other nursury rhyme characters will soon reside. This is Peter, in a layout I made into a T-shirt for my mom. Haven't the slightest idea when I'll actually finish the illustrations, and even less idea if I can actually get it published, but I can always hope, and have fun in the process! :)

You may think it odd, but I had to name all the species that live in the town. Peter is a tullebork. Some other creatures in the town are toadsquirrels (the itchy guy), and mice (creative name, right?).

Then there are beakmice (splashing), ghilahorn pigs (that's the busdriver), and hooflers (there's a young one in the green shorts).

Hope you enjoy these few little guys, and someday maybe we'll have a whole book to enjoy!

2000 Healing Touch Scratchboard

I took a printing class my second year of college at CVA (College of Visual Arts, St Paul, MN). One of our projects was a tryptic showcasing three printing processes. I chose to do the theme of healing. This was a rough draft for a linoleum print. Probably the best work that came out of the class... I'm afraid the actual prints weren't so beautiful.

2004 Hedgehog Pen & Ink

This hedgehog is one of several pen & inks I did in 2004.

The series also includes a baby asian elephant, a daubenton's bat,

a leopard, a barred owl, a ring tailed lemur, and a senegal bush baby.