Ancient Flight

i go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.
--Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings

 

the Ghooric Zone

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"The human species is too young to have beliefs; we need to stick with the questions." -- Anne Strieber

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Mournful Congregation_The Waterless Streams

Megan's Ghost
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Edgar Valle

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Up! And On!

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Up! And On!
To ever greater
heights of
aimless wandering

Krups Baby, Starbucks Man

Dig It Daddy-o

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Stego '78

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Old pencil sketch in 11"x8.5" sketchbook, cropped. From way back, and way off, out there, somewhere...

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Avenue Du Dr. Onimus

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Pareidoodle

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My Hat

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6x8" technical pen, probably a Faber Castell UniBall, over pencil on bristol board. The background is from a photo I took of the Post Office in Jonesboro AR. The hat is from life, one of mine. The rest is made up. Why I did this escapes me, but I really enjoyed it.

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East P'gould

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"I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost."
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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Speaking of fantasy...

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 Some old drawings and one painting:

This is ballpoint in a small sketchpad. I was driving back from Dallas to Garland one day, stopped at an intersection when a shadow crossed the windshield, I looked up and...!!!  If you google "pterodactyls in Texas" you'll find people who would believe that. THAT'S a true story.

Deep in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pelucidar series.

Dreaming of flight...

...a study for the above figure.

Alas it never became a painting. Yet.

Snort

Mainline

Jungle Queen. My pencil after The Master Frank Frazetta's painting.

Mushroom Fairy, 24x18" oil on canvas. I used a photo by a friend--which had a frog on the toadstool--and a figure from a book of action photos for artists.

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Some fantasy, some reality...

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 5 more in more or less chronological order from the mid 80's

This first one, one of my few acrylic pieces, 12x16" on canvas, was derived from my own black and white photo of the mausoleum at Linwood, with a little fantasy color thrown in for... feeling.

I think this is a 12x16 as well, oil on canvas panel. Limited palette study--burnt umber, pthalocyanine green and titanium white. only, from a photo I took down 8th ave.

From a black and white drawing by the French comics Master Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.

24x30" oil on canvas from my photo.

20x24" oil on canvas, from photos and sketches of a street corner in Jonesboro. Apparently I was too far up into somebody's yard while doing the sketches as they called the cops and had me run off. True story.

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