“Flutter,” 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink

Well, it feels like it has been forever since I’ve been on this blog! So many business things are taking precedence over the actual making of art (and blogging about it), but yesterday, I vowed that I would make time.

After a drive on the highway this morning to take care of some business (the actual business of setting up a legitimate art business), I came home with the image of a group of birds turning and fluttering above me on the road. Isn’t it amazing how a group will fly in tandem, doing all sorts of whirling tricks?

The drawing above, “Flutter,” is loosely inspired by this minor miracle! It’s for sale over in my shop.

Have you witnessed any minor or major miracles these days?

I’ve been thinking more about squares, rectangles actually. I started seeing rectangles in my head, all lined up like a cityscape. Somewhat unrelatedly, I also started thinking of the e.e. cummings poem that starts:

my love is building a building
around you,a frail slippery
house,a strong fragile house

These drawing have nothing to do with love, but it is interesting to see what comes up in your mind— a million little flashes of connections. These two cityscapes are now available for purchase in my shop.

“Cityscape 1″ 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink/marker

“Cityscape 2″ 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink/marker

I’m playing with squares over here in Davis, CA on this hot Wednesday [Fall is my favorite season, and it just can't come fast enough]. While I would have to say that triangles are a favorite of mine, squares don’t fall far behind. When it comes to the equal-four-sided, symmetrical version that I call the classic square, I can fall in love with that little chunk of space that the four lines hold together.

I started thinking about building some compositions around a white square, kind of like a cell, a couple of days ago. Here is what I came up with when I put pen to paper. These three original pen and ink drawings are now available in my shop– check it out, out, out.

“One,” 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink

“Two,” 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink

“Three,” 5 x 7 inches, pen and ink

Just a little messing around with triangles here. I started out with the white triangle, and ended up with a rocket, which cried out for the expression “Blast Off” next to it.

Have I told you before about my love for triangles? A lot of my abstract drawings start from those simple three-lined shapes. Triangles are very interesting to me–I think because of the odd number of points, and the possibility of making the shape look so different just by changing the length of the sides. Also, triangles are pretty much arrows, which can point any number of ways.