Category: My Drawings & Paintings

This is a giant chair that I saw in a dream in the mid 2010’s. It’s pretty minimalist, but I felt it represented something important at the time.

This is yet another of that series of obsessions with implausible architecture from the late 1980’s.

I think I published this on my blog before. It was from a dream I had, I think around 2011. I can’t find it on the blog. But here it is. A freaky dream.

This is something I drew around 1995. I messed around with crayons a lot – because that’s when Jeffrey had a lot of crayons around, and I would join him and Michelle in drawing sessions. This is just random daydreams and objects, but I like the “Mayan television” motif.

This is another of that whimsical architectural series from the late 1980’s.

I did this ink drawing of the house I grew up in, in Arcata – typically known among family and friends as the “A Street House” – because it’s on A Street. That’s why, when someone asks, “What street did you grow up on?” I can say with a high degree of specificity that I grew up on a street.
The drawing is not from life, but rather from a photograph. Further, it’s a quite old photograph. My recollection is that the photograph was taken in the 1940’s or 1950’s, before my parents bought the house in 1965, and probably before their predecessors bought it too. The house was built in 1909 or 1911 (I can’t remember which) by a man named Cosmo Stiglich, one of the many Croatian-Americans to settle in East Arcata before WW2. My understanding is that the house stayed in the Stiglich family until the 1950’s, when the Hendrickson’s bought it, who later sold it to my parents.
Anyway, I guess that would be one of the Stiglichs’ little Model A Coupe in front of the house.

This is a cartoony skeleton I drew, possibly in 2014 or so. But I have been drawing weird skeletons and skeletonish objects since high school, when I used to embed tiny skeletons in the neglected corners of drawings I did for my mechanical drawing classes at Arcata High School.

This is a self portrait (from photograph) I attempted in 2012. I don’t feel it was particularly successful.

This is a sketch of the famous “Green Mosque” – a postmodern architectural wonder in the imaginary city of Temisa (written تَمسا in the Bofobundan language), also known as Lagartópolis.

This is another collage from around 1992, inspired by the style of Georges Braque.

This is a still life I drew around 1994 – I can date it based on the footwear shown – they are running shoes and an old army boot, on top of a woven throw rug I got in Mexico in 1989.

I drew this in 2015.

I drew this in that 1992 art class. I believe it’s a direct portrait of a fellow student in that class.

This is art. I drew it in maybe 2014.

I drew this in 2012, I think.

I’m not sure what’s going on in this picture. It looks like that person is getting electrocuted. I drew it when I had that art class in 1992 when I was in Pasadena.

I drew this old man from a photograph in a magazine in 1993. Michelle liked this one. For a while it was framed and on the wall, but something happened to the frame – it broke, maybe. So it’s unframed.

I drew this University of Minnesota Transit System bus in 1989. Sorry it’s kind of hard to see – it’s in pencil. It’s the 13W Como Avenue North bus, which I took to my job at the University Press book factory that was located off-campus in Northeast Minneapolis. That’s where I had a job making books. Not writing them… making them. It was actually a pretty interesting job, though it could get very monotonous, running some machine on a bunch of books, one by one, going by on a conveyor.

I drew this empty-looking room in 1992. It’s tilted intentionally – the scan is cropped close to the edges of the paper.

This is a drawing of a character in a story I was making, about my imaginary country, Ardesfera. Her name is Victoria Persson, she was a 19th century military persona. I think I drew this about 2 years ago.

This is a still-life of my breakfast table in 1992, living inside the old San Marino house, which my great-grandfather had bought in 1909, I think.

This is art I drew in maybe 2011. I think it was when I was living in Yeonggwang. It looks like a 1970’s album cover.

I drew this in around 2014, I think. I’m pretty sure I shared it on my blog, back then, but I can’t find it at the moment, and anyway, this series is supposed to be a (completely unordered) complete collection. I could see it as the cover for a sci-fi book or something.

This is one of my first laptop computers – it was a 386 – with a houseplant named Curtis. I believe I drew this in 1993.

This is pastel from around 1988, I’m guessing. Possibly a still life but just as likely from a photo or my imagination.

I made this collage in my art class in 1992. It’s an imitation, I think, of Georges Braque, an early cubist.

This is another one of the architectural series from around 1989. The description at the bottom is in an imaginary language, I guess. I think of this building as being in my imaginary country, Mahhal.

I drew this around 1992. I expect it’s a still life of some props from an art class I took around that time.

This is an incomplete sketch in pastels from around 1993. I was working from an old photograph. The people in the picture are my sister, our baby sitter Joe T., and myself, probably around 1970.

This is a spaceship I drew in 1980.

This ink drawing is of the fountain in the backyard of my paternal ancestors’ old home in San Marino, on California Boulevard. I drew this when living there in 1992. The house was torn down a few years later.

This is one of my many vaguely architectural drawings. I think I drew a whole series of these “imaginary modernist churches” in around 1989 or so. The titles were often quite whimsical: this one is called “Sunshine Sect Church of the Renewable Love of God (Reformed Church of Contractual Christianity of the USA.)”. Note the “future date” I attached to these at the time of composition, which is now in the past.

This is a pastel drawing of Michelle that I drew in 1994. It is somewhat stylized. It has some water damage in the center left.