Category: Some Daily Art

This still life complements the same one done in more garish color (#61), done in 1992.

I drew this ink still life in my 1992 art class I think – something the teacher had set up.

In 2015, I drew this incomplete and rather bad portrait of a fictional character, Victoria Persson, who lives in my imaginary country, Ardisphere. She was a war hero in their civil war, in an era resembling the 1840’s.

It would be stretching the definition to call this art. But what else is it? When I was an elementary-school-aged kid, I liked drawing mazes. I haven’t run across any until this one. It’s incomplete. I’d been using these scraps of large billboard paper with fragments of lettering as a kind of background for my mazes. I’m guessing this is from around 1974.

I remember this being a series of quick sketches from photos projected on a screen in my 1988 art class. Each sketch had a two minute time limit or something like that, and we were told a particular style to try to use ahead of time.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km]

This abstraction feels like I did it around 2006. I’m not sure though. It might be earlier or later. There were several periods when I messed with watercolors.

These bowls were drawn in pastels in about 1993, along with those cups, previously posted.

I made this ink sketch in around 2011 I think. A quixotic fight against an alligator, per my teaching methods of the period.

I think I did this abstract thingy in around 2009. I can’t remember.

I drew this sketch while in high school, I’m pretty sure. Maybe 1982.

Yet another shoe, drawn in pencil in around 1992. Shoes are hard to draw.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

This abstraction was created using techniques I learned while working at the University of Minnesota’s Library Book Bindery in 1988. It is how custom end-papers are produced for custom-made books. I made several blank books while working there, using hand-stitching and custom papers.

In 2015, I drew this portrait of the Arbarongan Chief Quichago (a rebel during the early colonial period in the imaginary country of Ardesfera).

I drew my shoe in 1992.

I adapted this 1995 pastel from a photograph I took at Luffenholtz Beach (Trinidad, California) in 1984.

This is an egg + apple still life drawn in pencil in 1992.

I did this ink drawing in 1992 in imitation of some famous drawing or painting, but I’m not sure at the moment which. It was preliminary to doing my own original drawing of the San Marino house’s backyard fountain.

I couldn’t decide whether to count this as a map I’d drawn, or as art. It’s kind of both, isn’t it? I think I painted this in around 1994… I’m not sure. That was the era of my watercolor phase.

I painted this using watercolors around 1998. It is meant to be the traditional monarch’s hall in the city of Piropeta, Jessitim Kingdom, Mahhal.

I drew this abstract in pastels around 1994 I think.

I painted this weird iconic dude in around 1997.

I drew these cups in pastel in 1993 I think. There is some damage on the left edge.

This cheese grater towers over the skeleton of a small creature. It is like unto a god’s icon. I drew it around 1993.

This ink sketch was done from a photograph in my 1992 art class.

This is an abstract in ink and watercolor done in around 2012 I think.

I drew this in around 2009. It’s pretty abstract. Just a long-form doodle.

I very distinctly know that this drawing, from 1992, was meant to be “Paul on the Road to Damascus.” I’m not sure, though, if it’s an original composition, or if I was imitating some famous painting. My effort to look up famous paintings on that theme don’t immediately show me any picture that looks quite like this guy. I think maybe I drew it from some advertising photograph in a magazine, but interpreting fairly freely.

I made this charcoal figure sketch in my 1988 art class in Minneapolis.

I made this still life using pastels in my 1992 art class in Pasadena.

I’m guessing I drew this abstraction in around 2002.

I drew this fleet of spaceships in 1977 or 78.

I drew this in 1992. I now realize what was going on in Art #19 – it was a study in preparation for this one.

I drew these sketch characters in ink in around 1997 I think.