Category: Some Daily Art

This is the last (that I’ve been able to find) of that eccentric fantastical architecture series from the late 1980’s.

This is a weird alien dude I drew in maybe 2012.

This is an office chair I drew in 1988. I think we’re stretching the definition to call it “art,” but so it goes. If I were a very famous person, it would be worth a lot of money. So there’s that.

This is art from 2014.

This is a bad imitation of Picasso, done in ink in my 1992 art class.

I drew this “Squeakinge Lisard” in March, 2013. It was to support a wikipedia article I found.

This is some still life of unidentified objects from my 1988 art class.

This is a fractured teapot, from around 1989.

This is art from 2009.

I drew this cute cartoon llama in February of 2013. Thus this is its second appearance on this here blog. But it should be included in the enumerated art for the sake of completeness.

This is rather sketchy still life drawn in ink in 1992.

This is a very dim, rough sketch of an old, fortified island town called Castelul de Pin, located in the Ardisphere (an imaginary country). I drew the sketch in 2015.

This is another of that fantasy architectural series from 1988.

I don’t know what this is. I drew it in the mid-2010’s.

This ink and water still life dates from 1988, I think.

I drew this ink sketch in 2015.

These bottles are some kind still life from my 1992 art class.

I drew this magpie in 2013 I think. But I’m not sure – I think it was in my blog before. Sometime in there.

I drew this spaceship in 1978. I remember being pleased with the logo I’d designed for my evil space consortium.

This is a sketch done during my art class in 1988. It looks like some paper bags.

I drew this in around 2014 I think.

I think this was an exercise in my art class at the University of Minnesota from 1988. It’s a little bit Chuck Closean.

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.