Another 8" square, A Fractured Wing, acrylic and salvaged chocolate bar wrapper I mean, sophisticated gold-tone metal foil, on canvas. Available, 200. UPDATE: SOLD.

First time in two years I've painted these, since last year I kind of got diagnosed with lung cancer just before they started blooming. In the Pink, 16" x 22" oil on linen, sold before I even finished it! Click the image to enlarge; it's a fairly big file, so may take a moment to load.

So this is an 8x8" acrylic on canvas, with foil collage from the usual source, meaning ... fine, yes, it's the wrapper of a very nice dark chocolate bar, okay? Something something, suffer for my art, you know how it is.

I'm painting peonies tonight so I will keep this short, but in brief:

1. Yes, I am in the Twin Cities. No, my neighborhood isn't near the "unrest" and I feel very safe here.

2. Most recent CT scan results were one week ago and they were freaking fantastic. I'm not "NED" (No Evidence of Disease) yet. But when oncologists say, "Your scans are amazing" and "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it," those are very good things.

3. Coronavirus at this point is tougher on me than anything else has been. Too much isolation. Oh yeah and I'm getting tested on 6/24, not for active infection (have had three of those since 4/22, all negative) but for antibodies, because v. possible I already had this thing. Which would be ... interesting if true.

4. I will refrain from offering Whitey McWhitelady's Thoughts on Yaoi American Racism, but will state for the record that I am on the side of FINALLY, YES. It's the huge gaping crack in the foundation of this nation.

4a. A lot of people, most of them white, have been caught on camera setting fire to buildings here, and the ATF would like to speak with them. The damage isn't all opportunistic attacks by neo-Nazis, but available evidence is that a large percentage is that. Especially the arson.

And, as it's a beautiful evening here, I am about to go out for a walk.

Pictures when I get back, maybe. My mental ability to Do The Things is ... limited, lately. Mostly because being on lockdown, I think.

<3 y'all.

Or, you know. Not. :-D

This is another 5x7", one of the ongoing Tiny Goldfish Series. It might be titled Colorful Curves but IDK, that sounds ... a little cheesy. Anyway, I got bolder and looser with the brushwork this time, and I like the results a lot.



This one is still available but I've found these guys go pretty fast. $125 US, possibly a bit extra to ship depending where it needs to go.

This is a rough sketch in vine charcoal and a little white pastel pencil. The photo somehow loses the true “shadowy” quality and overexposes it a bit, but whatever. This is meant as a preliminary study rather than a finished work.



Unsurprisingly, the part that gave me the most trouble was his mouth.

I’m likely to create a couple more like this before moving on to the actual portrait, which is for a friend of mine and will be done in oil or maybe acrylic. Garak being who he is, I’m thinking of using a black ground for the portrait and letting a lot of it just stay black. Not that he’s evil, he’s just so very elegant and dramatic.

So, fighting a nasty sinus infection today, on meds and in pjs all day, bleah.

But I am not so sick that I will just sit on the sofa and watch the Spock’s Brain episode.


ETA: yes, another sinus infection, apparently contracted in Chicago on New Year’s Eve. Re: the more serious shit, I continue to heal at a rapid pace.

Because the last drawing I made of her showed her tremendous attitude, here’s one from 11/30, where we see the more cuddly aspect of Leela.

Luna drawings will be forthcoming, I promise. :-)

Been a while, hasn’t it?

I have much to do today, and also have a sinus infection which I got pills for last night (HUGE PILLS, GUYS. SO BIG). The doctor and the pharmacist both said they’re seeing a lot of people with this thing right now, so it’s, well, a thing. I’ve had it for like 3 weeks but didn’t realize what it was. I thought SINUS INFECTION meant being 100% miserable, whereas mostly I’ve been Annoyed As Shit.

In other news, I killed my desktop computer (more precisely, broke a couple connectors on the motherboard) while trying to give it a shiny new brain. I have all my stuff backed up so this is not a tragedy, and on advice of Very Cool Repair Dude, I bought a used computer identical to mine — a mid-2010 Mac Mini, $130 — off eBay, and will have Repair Dude install the new solid state hard drive (“brain”) and also the shiny new RAM I bought. Since, you know, I already have those.

Partly this project is because I don’t wanna spend what it would cost for a new machine, but also: I am sick of the cycle of tech obsolescence and I want to hit the brakes on that. It’s so wasteful. If I can upgrade an older machine for a fraction of the price of a new one, and do the things I need to do, that’s pretty cool.

... but I don’t really love Tumblr.

Except when I do. Today it brought me a string quartet cover of Thrift Shop. I’m off to iTunes to buy this now. We needs it, precious.

https://clockwork-mockingbird.tumblr.com/post/102261850667/push-play-and-just-trust-me