Untitiled Valentine ATC

This was for my swap with Art of Pride in February.

Proposed logo, Strength for the Journey 2007

I had actually created this last year. I'm a frustrated cartoonist! The sun and the dog are really reminiscent of the old cartoons for me. I like the pallet of colors and the laid back feeling.

Buddha Sketch

This is ATC size on cream colored stock.

We often see religious symbols in fabulous giant settings of churches and temples. But some of the most important are little cards and statuettes in the places where we work and rest.

Canidating Sunday

This is ATC size on cream colored card stock. I drew it during church service today. I know the canidate minister looks a bit like a fly-person. Her face was not as important as her stole and the heart from which she spoke.
Our settled minister looks a little more human. Glasses, nose, necktie make a quick sketch.
The ghost of a lot of things were around them: cave drawings of hunter-soldiers and a buffalo, the Venis of Willendorf, the wheel of many religions, the computer monitor, a phallic like microscope.

Classic Love

Valentine ATC
Six of these went off in trade to a couple of other artists in the Midwest. They are 2.5 x 3.5 inches and made for trading not for selling. I enjoy this "concentrated" format. I hope we get some local swapping done. They truely make for a currency of talent.

Possessiveness

Valentine ATC

Secret Admirer

Valentine ATC

Strange Bedfellows ATC

This is an ATC or Artist Trading Card which I giving in a Valentine exchange with two artists in the Mid-West. ATC's, never sold just traded, are only 2.5 by 3.5 inches in size. The best ones are unique and hand made. It is a fun challenge to make these tiny works of art.

Mandela IF Super Hero

Bottle and Bread 365DD

I'm am trying to keep up with my 365 DD by carrying a "sketch pad" with me whereever I may have time to doodle something. My pad is a 8 x10 piece of drawing paper which I fold into quarters. It provides enough support that I don't need a backing. It is flexible enough to fit into a pocket. So this sketch is on a quarter which is only 4 x 5 inches.

Girl in Museum Passage

Trying to keep my new year's resolution to create something arty every day, I snapped this view of a member of a school group at San Diego's Balboa Park. It highlights a couple of the classic and deco detail in the buildings.

The A Dees

I was a boy scout at their Jamboree in Valley Forge, PA. One night we waited in a meadow amphitheater for President Lyndon Johnson's helicopter to land. There were 50,000 boys on that hillside.
I remember when I would hear years later that 50,000 young men had died in Viet Nam that they could have been the very ones on that hillside in Pennsylvania.
Years after that I heard that the 50,000th American had died of AIDS. They could have been the same ones.
The US named AIDS in the 80s. It was already killing and had been killing for years. Rock Hudson died. And Ronald Reagan could not say the word. In the 80s.

UUMF Surf Logo

I added the flaming chalice (symbol of the UU faith) to this final copy. And some fingernails and shawdow/highlight effects.

Surf Heart Logo

Men's Renewal Weekend Logo Draft

Panels of Love

This is a 4 ft. by 4 ft. fabric piece done for a show called "A Patchwork of Life" at a gallery in San Diego in 1995. The colored panels are flat. Each heart is "stuffed" to make it 3 dimentional.

Idaho Street House

I was stuck by the crisp cut hedge complimenting the house.

These stucco bugelows are really common in San Diego neighborhoods.

I'm trying to carry around a piece of paper and pencil to keep to my 365 Daily devotions. I made a sketch of the house while waiting for some friends to arrive home. I only used the light of the street lamp. It was enough to capture the idea of the house. 365 DD 2007 Jan 6.

Buzz---Illustration Friday

Lady's Slipper

I was really taken by the bud of this orchid as much as the bloom. It is like a little flower ball ready to burst forth. 2007 Jan 04 365DD.

Don't Ask

I got my ire up this evening about gays in the military. The way so many people in our country behave toward gays and lesbian, I can't fathom who would think that they should serve in its militiary. Particularly when that military devotes so much effort to destroying the lives of gays and lesbians in uniform.

This too will pass. Ti' then it get my goat!

2007 Jan 03 365 DD