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Monday, July 30, 2012

Hail, Hail, Fredonia, Land of the Brave and Free

 

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Schwai’s

 

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Thanks for opening up on a Monday to sell me brats, Mike!

 

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“Just pull around to the back so nobody thinks we’re open, okay?”

 

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Across the street (W3940 County Hwy H)

 

Schwai's mural

Mural & Antique Store

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Packing & Shipping (?)

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Y.O.B.S

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Fishing Trip to Pewaukee Lake

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Djeneba getting some reading done at Smokey’s Muskie Shop.

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Andy Pilots the boat.  He took over from me after I killed the engine and couldn’t figure out how to get it started back up. Andy read the directions. Started the engine.
Show-off.

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Andy musters the gear.

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Bruce hauls in the anchor. About a bale of seaweed, and several pounds of rich fragrant Pewaukee mud.  Catch of the day. Photo by dj-bor.

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Djeneba indicates the diameter of the cold, hate-filled eyeball of the dread Pewaukee Lake Kolossal Kraken we outwitted by making it laugh (knock knock, who’s there?, yo momma, yo momma who?, yo momma has suckered tentacles and a propulsion siphon) and then, mid-guffaw, propping open its evil voracious beak with our oars. Better luck next time, you despicable, spineless (invertebrate) chromatophore-laden cephalopod.

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Back safely on terra firma. Great trip.

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…now this.  A painting of a dog in a sombrero. At Seesters in Pewaukee. ¡Olé!

Late July, Early August Daily Drawings

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The kid in the window seat on my SFO-CHI flight drew something like this.  I copied it, all surreptitious-like.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Wisconsin

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Squall at MKE. Exiting the Bardo (for now).

 

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Badger

 

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Djeneba dancing with a badger. 

Warm golden Wisconsin evening on the lake.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Calamine and Bandaids

 

Calamine & Bandaids

Watercolor, ink, calamine, brown paper, off-brand bandaids & glue on 9 x 12” watercolor paper

Calamine and Bandaids 2

Cropped

 

calamine and bandaids inscription

Inscribed for Cathy 10/24/12

Gonna Need a Bigger Bowl

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B&W Freddie

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Yellow on Blue on White

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Watercolor on paper 7/22/12

Go sh

arks

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ATTACK EAT OUR BUB8LE

Robo-Nanny on a Hot Day

Chirp chirp tweet. 

Oriole on Hummingbird Feeder

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I think it’s a Hooded Oriole. Thanks for the new hummingbird feeder, MJF!

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Development of sketch of dream scene

Sketch of dream scene

Sketch of dream scene scanned, tidied inPS, printed

Sketch of dream scene scanned, redrawn, scanned hires copy

Sketch of dream scene scanned, redrawn, scanned hires copy matted 1

Sketch of dream scene scanned, redrawn, scanned hires copy 2

 

One of those theta-wave images that you get when you’re drifting off to sleep. I had a good time passing this back and forth from my mind to paper to digital, back to paper, then scan that, color in photoshop, round & round

 

Sketch of dream scene scanned, tidied inPS, printed copy, original squiggle grafted in

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Tumbler

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From the Refracted Light series.  More here.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Green Photons

Salty

Saline

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

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