Encre Noire

New Sketches

2009-09-28T09:06:00.000-07:00

The following are some of the sketches I worked on last night:

Dead Fish Sketch.
pencil & paper

Fennel Sketch.
pencil& paper

Kabocha Squash Sketch.
pencil& paper

Sphinx In The Making

2009-09-16T13:54:00.000-07:00

So, today I'm working on two things:

1. a piece of the mythological creature Sphinx

2. a pot roast

The Sphinx is for my baby room (baby due in November). I haven't tried to do anything in color for nearly a year. Let's just say I'm having a little rediscovery of technique...

Last night I made the color paper (which I do by making a rubbing with pastel), and as I went to get my ink pens, I felt something was missing... hairspray!! Hairspray? Yep, hairspray.

I learned in an art class many, many years ago, to spray pastel work lightly with a setting spray to keep it from smudging. I figured that if I used this technique I could ink over pastel without screwing up my super-expensive ink pens. One day I ran out of the also-expensive-setting-spray, and resorted to using Aqua Net. It works even better than the fancy ass art stuff!

Though last night I ran into another problem: I quit using hairspray months ago, so no dice. I had to collect quarters to procure my Aqua Net for not my hair, but an inking of a Sphinx...

The pot roast; however, is coming along nicely. My whole house smells like steak and onions, which is making for a very hungry, pastel and ink covered pregnant lady...

For Mitch

2009-02-24T16:30:00.001-08:00

"I Love You"
ink & paper
not for sale

Bone Cook

2009-02-24T16:27:00.000-08:00

"Bone Cook"
ink & paper

Stag Root

2009-02-24T16:20:00.000-08:00

Wrote this one today to the sound of a locomotive. It's the basis of a new song.

Give him a sharp shoot.
Give him a stag root.
Give him a chance to understand.
Thinking over,
Thought it a number,
Times equivalent to the plan.

Hold the Vatican,
Hold the Vatican,
Hold the Vatican,
Upright, Sam.
Douse him under,
Shift the cover,
Better make sure
That Vatican is a man.

Give him a stout boot.
Give him a strong flute.
Give a chance to understand.
Big bellow thunder.
Striking the plunder,
Times equivalent to the plan.

Under the baseboard,
Under the baseboard,
Under the baseboard,
We'll take our time.
Poised for glory,
They'll tell this story,
After we're sure,
We've split the side.

Give him a hope.
Give him a rope.
Give him a chance to understand.
Down with the galley,
Supping up Sally,
Times equivalent to the plan

Give him a sharp shoot.
Give him a stag root.
Give him a chance to understand.
Thinking it over,
Thought it a number,
Times equivalent to the plan.

B&W

2009-01-31T22:44:00.000-08:00

"He's Big In Japan"
Portrait of Tom Waits
ink on paper

"Lyndsey & John"
ink on paper
(not for sale)

"Kaati"
ink on paper
(not for sale)

"Double Love"
Portrait of PJ Harvey and Nick Cave
ink on paper

"Ana & Giovanni"
ink on paper
(not for sale)

"Aria"
ink on paper
(not for sale)

Color

2009-01-31T21:52:00.001-08:00

"Feather"
pastel & ink
(sold)

"Self Portrait in Bathroom"
pastel&ink

"Prayer"
pastel & ink
(sold)

"Great Fang Work!"
pastel& ink
(auctioned)

"3"
pastel&ink

"Devil Girl From Mars" (poster remake)
pastel & ink
(auctioned)

Une Mort Vague Au Monde

2009-01-31T18:00:00.000-08:00

Leaves crunch on the ground
scratchin the belly of this town
dark eyes
sweat stance
The summer sun is blown
into red clouds and in browns
a ghost
a glance
The path is strewn with cars
All parked near neon bars
quick gulps
stained glass
The land's lost all the power
over those who suck in glamor
and hell
slinks past

Ah, me

Tigers to the prowl
massive hungry beasts and fowl
all bared
sharp teeth
as grass supplies the plows
the terrific beast endows
A fear
"All's clear!"
The winter's wind is early
Engulfing water with a surly
slight jeer
"Don't Test"
A scattered many tribes
Start to weave a way with rhymes
To speak
"All's clear!"

Ah, me

Malice in the night
gives a brilliance to the light
thats bitter
blinding
calloused hands all bare
are squelching out the air
I breathe
ah, me
witness to the sound
that shook towers to the ground
in the late
evening
like the falling leaves that float
a dreamy chance at hope
is deafly
sighing

Ah, me

The Heart Blood

2009-01-31T17:30:00.000-08:00

The heart blood
The heart fist
Plumping-out all bare
Like a fast-growing cyst
Has wrapped a vine
A timid mind-grind
Rolling over
And Over
Unblessed,
So why should this grow?
When a heart can't know
The timing and seasons
We've missed,
And rage from the belly
Feeds a fat-bleeding jelly
A selfish thing shoved in the chest.

Down In The Gallows

2009-01-31T17:01:00.000-08:00

Down in the Gallows
There's a sweet talking man
With southern-bread accent
And a cigar in his hand.
His flesh ain't quite the color
Of most human skin,
But you can tell by his eyeballs
Just where he has been.
He twists up the course cord
'Cause there can't be no slack
'Fore down in Gallows
There ain't no coming back.

Oh up on a highchair
With the wind rollin by
Prayin and a whimperin
From the dread deep inside
Strung up to the wood-rot
'Neath a boiling hot sun
Down in the Gallows
A celebration's begun.

Hold up your right hand
If you want to be next
Dead sin is grinnin
For a victim-complex
It's not quite so bloody
As most death's can be
But a quick little hangin
Can't give too much misery
So give him your money
Step up to the line
Forget your trangressions
And we'll have a good time.

Seether-sith

2009-01-31T17:00:00.000-08:00

Seether-sith.
A moor to the mist,
In a caption less
Film
In a theater with
The lights dim low
As the dark doth glow
In the absence
Of all
That is lit.

Social scene
Killer
Quick to the end.
Back of the bearer
Dying to defend.

Down on the ground
Roll
Clankity-clank.
Whistle and swish
The glass,
The sound,
And the break,
Whilst the eye ducts water
When the mood starts to
Shift.

Meal over Miami
Thick air streams over jet
Sparkle grows to nausea
And the night's plans
Are set.

Zeal,
Lust,
And fervor,
Plus a few lines of blow,
Give the highlife
It' glamour
And the Moonlight
It's show.

Seether-sith
A fast-growing fish
Set to tether
And hold up to the
Weather
As the guppies
Race to the dish.

Oh balder bee
You incessant steed
Stamping the boys
In the hitch
Helping the hep
To fall in step
Like a good-fellow
Beatnik bitch.

No Season For Passion

2009-01-31T16:30:00.000-08:00

Wither in the winter
A snail can't mate in this weather
And beauty lapses to disease
Even unseen
He senses the condition
Such an ackward position
The freak-o-nature-glance
Why can't he give a girl a chance?

Head so heavy
Burden-o-things,
Spring,
So many
Hear the symptoms of love
And strap on a thick glove
'Cause something so pretty
Somthing somebody's had
Can't be too rokcy
Can't be that bad.

Hot like a ember
Straight out of slumber
Twisting and tumbling
Fingers all fumbling
Unaware
O-the-danger there
Wrapped-up all neat
Within a soiled summer sheet.

Oh, snakey skin shawl
Unsheath this child-o-fall
Let her bathe in crisp air
Unscathed, raw, and bare
And dance in the glory
Finding vereve in the most holy
Date-o-the-doomed
Harvest-sister's spoon.

Past Shows

2009-01-31T16:00:00.000-08:00

"Obscenely Unseen 3" / Space Studio / Dallas, TX / Group show / Aug. 2nd, 2008

"The Art Of Skateboarding" / Janette Kennedy Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition benefiting both the Texas Scottish Rite Children's Hospital. and St. Philip's School and Community Center / June 5, 2008

"Existance Is Elsewhere" / Avenue Arts Venue / Dallas, TX / Group show / May 31st, 2008

"Spring Cleaning 2008" / Kettle Art Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition / May 10th, 2008

"Boob Tube Saturday" / The Soda Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition with cartoon theme / April 19, 2008

"Nancy, George, and Bess" / The Blue Building / Dallas, TX / Female group exhibition /April 3rd, 2008

"ArtNow Fair" / Miami, FL / Group exhibition with Kettle Art Gallery / March, 2008

"INK" / The Meridian Room / Dallas, TX / 3 person exhibition / Feb. 11th, 2008

"Obscenely Unseen 2" / Space Studio / Dallas, TX / Group show / Feb. 2nd, 2008

"Clockwork Fling" / Studio Fling / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition / Jan. 26th, 2008

"Holiday Presence 3" / Kettle Art Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition / Dec. 15th, 2007

"Art Conspiricy 3" / The Door / Dallas, TX / Group show benefiting St. Anthony's Community Center / Dec. 9th, 2007

"Horrors Of The Enchanted Wasteland" / Pawn Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group show benefiting the Texas Campaign for the Environment / Oct. 27th, 2007

"Collaboration" / Kettle Art Gallery / Dallas, TX / Group exhibition of collaborated pieces (two artists per piece) / Oct. 13th, 2007

"Another Little Piece Of My Art"/ Kettle Art Gallery / Dallas, TX / All female exhibition / Sept. 15th, 2007

"Female Form Show - Breast Cancer Benefit" / Studio Fling / Dallas, TX / All female exhibition benefiting breast cancer / Aug. 31st, 2007

"Obscenely Unseen"/ Space Studio / Dallas, Tx / Group show / Aug. 25th, 2007