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December 14th, 2014

12/14/2014

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At the M. C. Escher exhibit...
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shimo bashira

12/8/2014

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Fascinated with the columns of ice that rise from the dirt of these woods. Amazed at the beauty of the Japanese term for them, shimo bashira.
霜柱 shimo bashira (Ice Needles)

Water specks
each triad a protosoul
traveling alone
and in concert
with sibling souls
enshrouded in soils warm as the blood of earth
traveling upward
to emerge
adhered to one another
in clear cold air
entwined as brittle rope
carrying specks like kayayo girls packing wellwater
over dryly frozen mud cracks
far below the woods floor
of my own earth.


-December 8, 2014

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More from the Selfie Sketchbook

11/29/2014

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Old Sturbridge Village

11/12/2014

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Second day of Indian Summer.
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Blacksmith...those "things" are rusty barrel hoops.
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Grain Mill
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Bixley House under oaks
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Grain barrel in Freeman barn, sleeping swine.
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SW Monthly Gig

11/10/2014

 
Well, I need to up the output here....twenty days to go and I'm not halfway there. Unlike poems, I can crank out lots of drawings in a day but, like poems, I can only do one really nice one in the course of a day. Just about every drawing is a single sitting's worth, sometimes one more visit to tidy things up.
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pixelovely.com - best quick-fix drawing resource

11/8/2014

 
Ended up in another ER Friday night. By Saturday morning I was again a prisoner of the health care system, which is less about care than about systems. I had my nook tablet, though, and went to pixelovely.com, which offers timed image sequences for a fast fix. Ball point pen on Health Proxy paper.
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Day Six

11/6/2014

 
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Fifty Drawings in Thirty Days

11/4/2014

 

...a Facebook Challenge on "SW Monthly Gig"

If you use Facebook, look up SW Monthly Gig and "SW Monthly Fifty Laura Helen" for the album. These are the first for November. Comments are closed here on moxiesquirrel because I get lots of racy offers in my email through this site, mostly Belarusan women looking to marry me. But you can comment on Facebook.
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Northampton

10/28/2014

 
Waiting around...what a place full of unfinished drawings!
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....this last one (below) was supposed to be the dog waiting outside a liquor store, but the owner came out. He stood around with his pint for a bit, watching me, then moved on uneasily. Without the dog or the man it's a pretty dull sketch.
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Great Rock Alpacas, Barre, Massachusetts

10/26/2014

 
I bought a pair of fingerless Alpaca gloves here a few years back. They're truly fingerless now after hard use and I was looking to replace them, but since Kate Lathrop didn't have any in her stock, I bought a couple pounds of fleece instead. That was really not in the plan. Drawing was in the plan, though, and Kate brought me all about the barns and animal enclosures.
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It started to rain on my watercolor pencil drawing (above) so I finished it quickly with a brush...and felt a presence to my left.....(below)
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Kate attempting to remove an Poplar leaf from this Alpaca's eye. It looked like a jaunty pirate's eye patch. On the right, the Alpaca whose fleece is now on my kitchen table.
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Great Rock Alpacas, Kate and Jack Winthrop, 280 Hardwick Road, Barre, MA    Great Rock Alpacas.com
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