Families

Two families on their pods.  (Collage with bar-codes, envelope liners, and other scraps.)

Afternoon Stroll

In Honor of National Bird Day (January 5), a collage of birds.  

Two families meeting during their afternoon stroll. 

Time Together

 

The story continues.  My experimentation with Photoshop and colors too.  Next panel?  May take a few days. 

The Story Begins

 

Mrs. Aplux's story begins.  More on Monday!

Life Blows

 

Memories, part 2.

Family Portrait

 

From left to right:  Sam, Eva, David and Yael.  Done from memory.  The dog jumping in a garbage can is an inside joke that maybe Eva and Sam will remember.  I don't, but it was very funny.   (2005)

Building

 

Next drawing from my old notebook.  I was playing with different pens and pencils lying around at my mother's apartment.   I even wonder if the reddish lines were not black originally.  

Here is an oil painting exploring the same theme:  

 

Catching up

Difficulties with Blogger made me post on FB but not here.  Time to catch up with the next few images from my old notebook.

On Friday, I posted this sketch.  Done from a sculpture a few years ago at Mass Moca.  I remember a series of very realistic tigers studded with arrows.  It was quite impressive.   

Monday, I posted this early abstraction.  2 Spirals.  I went through a period of spirals and still enjoy looking at them.  Here is below a drawing I did from that sketch, in oil pastels:

Tuesday was the turn of this page:

It shows an early effort at incorporating comics and children's books.  A potential page for Mothers Can't Get Sick were I do do it again.  

And earlier tonight, I posted this sketch of a beautiful statue in Paris and sketched quickly later on from memory:  

Thanks to Google I was able to find that it is by sculptor Baltasar Lobo:

Absolutely no continuity in these images.  I am posting chronologically and they do happen in that order in the notebook.  

Peaceful World

 

I remember this as a sketch for a painting that I worked on for a while and then didn't keep.  Fun to find birds were there already.  

The Child

 

The most important person in the Queen's life.  Eliciting all kinds of feelings, from elation to exasperation to anxiety:  the Child.  

Variation on theme

 

Trying out an interpretation of yesterday's drawing.  

Motherhood again

 

In honor of my dear daughter's birthday, a Mother and child from an early Flemish painting.   The original painting is so beautiful!

Column Family

 

Good to take a long weekend off.  And good to be back too.  Here is a little variation on my columns.  Reminds me of playing with blocks!  Which was so much fun both as a child and as a parent.  

The King, the Queen and the Child

 

Glad the birds added a bit of levity to this one.  

Queen and Child

 

Trying out a different color harmony.  Should try that again sometime.  

Family Picture

 

In honor of Father's Day weekend, here comes the Green Family.  

A Walk with Dad

 

This came from the wish to draw large black shapes...  

protecting a child

 

Enormous desire to protect.  Overwhelming knowledge that one can't. 

Tree parent

 

Pen and ink and watercolor.  An Ent person.  I like to think of the small plant as the child.  

A Hug

 

Being a mother is very hard.  At least for me.  Moments like these are rarer than they used to be.  I cherish the memory.  And when they still occur.