I love my mom, most people do. She is 84 years old and adopted me as her own in her early 60s and worked hard to provide for me. She sacrificed a lot for me, even though she did not give birth. I needed a mother as an infant and she was the one willing to step in and assume that role.
My mother has worked hard all her life. She grew up poor in rural Alabama and learned a hard day’s work before her teens. She would pick coton for a nickel an hour, with no shoes. Her parents were tough and wa…Continue Reading
So I drew this pretty picture for my girlfriend’s birthday. We have this inside joke where I tease her for looking like a puffed up bird when she’s upset. She thought it was cute and sweet but was confused on who was the bird and who was her. The strange thing is that she is both the bird and the girl holding the bird, which is really supposed to be me.
The picture illustrates Rinik, my girlfriend, stuck in a time loop in an alternate dimension where she is playing the role of both me and he…Continue Reading
So . . . I’m really excited. Can I tell you why? My sweater is finished!
Remember the knitting pattern I posted a few weeks ago? Well, my mom has been tireless knitting it in her free time and has produced this beautiful sweater for me. You can download the original pattern here. (It’s a PDF)
I have been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica recently and was inspired to draw an image of a spaceship with another exploding in the background. The image I saw in my head greatly reminded me of “Wham!” by Roy Lichtenstein, that famous pop artist guy form the 1950s-on. Lichtenstein controversially knocked off a bunch of comic strips and claimed his copies to be altered enough to present a new context and meaning. Roy really didn’t do much more than make the paintings really big, whic…Continue Reading
So my project this last weekend was to turn the chicken from that book I did last year, Margaret, into a knitting pattern. For Christmas my mom made a sweater vest for my close friend Henry Jardim that had an image of a frog knitted into the front. She had a lot of fun making it and Henry has had a lot of fun wearing it. When she finished the sweater she told me that she would like to do one for me and asked me what I wanted. I’ve never been very picky on what gifts I receive – I alwa…Continue Reading
Here are a couple of sketches that I did of my two cousins over this past week. They were visiting while their aunt was away at a wedding in Maryland.
Bill’s on the left. He loves sports and is very smart. Sarah Beth is his sister and she likes to pout. She’s also very smart and knows a lot about dinosaurs – more than anyone I know (Except, maybe, my baby brother, Oliver).
I know I said in a previous post that I would post art I made as Christmas presents, but I only really made one thin…Continue Reading
