Group Journal Project

A few Art folks and I cast about for ways to break a few old art habits while no one is watching, and to try to do something ‘different’ to get over our creative blocks, and maybe to have some shared laughs, always a great way to get motivated. “Them that suffer together with friends, still suffer. Together. Mightily.” I think that’s a rough translation of an old Viking saying.

We’re scattered across our continent of North America but we get together often at the events we all love, and have a meal, and show off our wretched portfolios or gnarly sketch books. We are a varied lot of Makers, a collective mix of medias, with high toleration for the humans in the human condition we all swim in… Maybe that’s a repetition. Maybe I ended a sentence in a preposition. That’s one part and why we get along so well. We ‘get it’ most of the time.

So, enter a third-party instigator Keri Smith. Wreck This Journal (WTJ) is a self-contained, universal, and just wacky enough to entice harried Artists with a love of fun that can yield other serious benefits. Together.

I am not sponsored by the creator of WTJ or any of the outlets that offer the book for sale.

Here are a few of my pages. The instructions are clear (no Narrator voice-over) so see for yourself if fun is or isn’t my goal. More later, probably.

Dowser of Lost Things

“Dowser of Lost Things”, an automatic drawing

Graphite on paper, ~23 x 30.5cm, ~ 9 x 12 in. 

Thanks for hanging out. 

c. 2023

No NFT’s.

No commissions.

See profile for freelance contact  info.

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#expressiveartist #expressiveart #figurativeart #figurativeartist #characterdesign#characterdesigner #gesturalart #surrealism #pencilart #pencilartist #surrealart #surreal #surrealartist#surrealartists #intuitiveart #intuitiveartis t#intuitiveartists

“Sol”, an Intuitive Drawing

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“Sol”, an automatic drawing

Graphite on paper, ~23 x 30.5cm, ~ 9 x 12 in. 

Thanks for hanging out. 

c. 2023

No NFT’s.

No commissions.

See profile for freelance contact  info.

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#expressiveartist #expressiveart #figurativeart #figurativeartist #caricature #caricatureartist #characterdesign #characterdesigner #gesturalart #surrealism #pencilart #pencilartist #surrealart #surreal #surrealartist #surrealartists #intuitiveart #intuitiveartis t#intuitiveartists

MerMay 2023, No. 1 “Harpy of the Sea, Side B”

“MerMay, No. 1”, Harpy of the Sea, Side “B”.

Mixed media, 9 x12 in., 23 x 30.5 cm., 160gsm, 110lb. watercolor paper.

c. 2023

Many thanks for hanging out here. 

No NFT’s. No commissions available at this time.

#mermay #mermay2023 #mermaid #mermaids #merfolk #kaiju #kaijuart #alienlife #alienlifeforms #creaturedesign#creaturedesigner #mythology #seamonsters #mythologicalseacreatures #figurativedrawing #surrealdrawing #monsterdesign #gesturaldrawing

MerMay 2023

Mermaid No. 1, “Harpy of the Sea”

“MerMay, No. 1”, Harpy of the Sea.

Water color & pigment ink, 9 x12 in.,  23 x 30.5 cm.,  160gsm, 110lb. watercolor paper.

c. 2023

Many thanks for hanging out here. 

No NFT’s. No commissions available at this time.

#mermay #mermaid #mermaids #merfolk #kaiju #kaijuart  #creaturedesign #creaturedesigner #mermay2023 #figurativedrawing #surrealdrawing #monsterdesign #popsurrealism #mythologycreatures 

 

 

Serial Number 02052023.11, List Poem

I got time for…

other people.

baby animals.

saturday morning cereal & cartoons.

that scent of new school supplies on the last day of summer break

love found & lost at a summer camp & found & lost at school…found again, then lost once more.

baseball games on am radio.

reading, art, & cooking material.

fresh sheets on my bed.

fench fries at the bottom of my bag & cheese paper from the burger wrapper.

sharing last night’s pizza.

beer from a pitcher with friends.

muscle cars and vw bugs.

bicycles and skateboards.

clean water.

some clothes.

the am radio frequencies.

a nice, well-stocked first aid kit.

hand tools and fasteners.

a place to hang my hat & overalls.

LP records and cool stereo rigs.

crickets’ droning in the dark as the car whizzes off into the night on back roads.

the smell of rain.

a cluster of dictionaries & word books.

the last glory of sun at dusk.

tree frogs, owls, & whip-poor-wills.

swiss army knife.

rain, mist, fog, storms, winds, calm, bright, 10,000 foot ceiling &10 miles visibility.

magnet & magnifying glass.

the moon in its phases.

the first snow, the last snow, and springtime.

your lists too.