i wish i were a bear

this blustery cold weather has me wishing i could just snuggle under blankets next to the radiator with plenty of yarn and fabric and cookies and cocoa -- and maybe not leave my house until the cold weather goes away.

deco

i've been kinda into art deco patterns lately. i've been doodling them a lot... and then did some drawings on paint chips, then mounted paper to the back and turned them into postcards.

happy surprises

happy birthday, dana!

quick sketch

hope all is going well in boston, colleen. we miss you.

leggy

yeah.

drawings

BLOODY GIRLS PART DUEX

also inspired by halloween -- more bloody girls.

feathers and feathertrees

soon after the blood fixation, i moved onto feathers. they are just as fun to draw as blood! this was all inspired by monica (of mogollon) who had the idea of a tree with feathers instead of leaves. i loved her idea so i tried it out and really quite liked it. the next step, of course, is to put a bird in one of these trees who has leaves instead of feathers...

bloody girls

so after having so much fun drawing bloody hands, i wanted to draw MORE blood. so i started looking for ladies with lots of exposed skin in magazines. and then i cut them out and made them bloody.

bloody hands

i had multiple dreams -- on two different nights -- of falling and getting glass stuck in my hand and seeing other people do the same thing. the last dream was so bloody that i woke myself up from it. well of course i thought the whole bloody-hand image was strange and couldnt help wondering what the heck it was supposed to mean. i had a hard time shaking the image, so then i started drawing bloody hands with glass stuck in them. i'm not too good at drawing hands, but i had a really good time drawing the blood.