Day 142

November 22, 2015 in gouache, drawing, adrawingaday, creature like, brain, watercolor, skull, color pencil, illustration, bones

Skulls and lulls.

Day 126

September 25, 2015 in adrawingaday, bones, brain, color pencil, creature like, drawing, gouache, heart, illustration, ink, skeleton

A year ago I started combining the brain and heart to create a singular organ. I'm sure this has been interpreted in one way or another many times, but I've grown attached to the image and its symbolism for my own reasons. Mainly I'm drawn to the balance we struggle with between reason and emotion, logic and madness, love as something magical and intangible while at once being something practical and controlled by chemicals in our brain. I'm still exploring this and am excited to see what bubbles up.

Day 123

September 17, 2015 in ink, gouache, hill, adrawingaday, otherland, drawing, bones, watercolor, environment, skull, desert

Starting to get carried away with excuses on why I shouldn't publish drawings I've done, I stopped myself today and snapped a picture of this drawing watercolor as it is. As a whole I'm not liking it. But I enjoy elements of it on their own.

Day 113

July 01, 2015 in color pencil, adrawingaday, skull, bird, illustration, brain, crow, heart, drawing, skeleton, bones, ink, creature like

I don't know why I felt like combining these bones and organs together today but here they are. To me it looks like a skeleton cheer leader. :)

Day 106

June 16, 2015 in adrawingaday, bones, brain, bursts, creature like, drawing, gouache, heart, illustration, skeleton, skull, spine, splash, voyage, watercolor, wanderer

Started thinking about nurture versus nature and emotions versus logic. Sometimes it feels like we push one out of the way in order to attain an intangible desire.

Day 105

June 15, 2015 in bones, drawing, creature like, skeleton, illustration, adrawingaday, gouache, bursts, watercolor, ink

Playful rendition of skeletons, including a conehead.

Day 102

June 11, 2015 in adrawingaday, bones, bubbles, drawing, gouache, illustration, splash, skull, skeleton, watercolor

Bought a new gouache yesterday and couldn't wait to use it! Took to illustrating a skull from memory and continued on with cosmic dots.

Day 93

March 26, 2015 in adrawingaday, bones, bursts, drawing, gouache, ink, pencil, splash, watercolor, wolves, wolf, attack, feeding

After watching Lulu Miller's Creative Morning's talk I decided to take on some of her tips. You can say this is my brain yodeling to the paper and I'm glad it happened. When I started the drawing I was too attached to the original photograph I had found. Now you can see traces of this initial drawing but it's more like a trail a mouse would leave in the snow.

Day 73

November 11, 2014 in adrawingaday, color pencil, drawing, ink, pencil, bones

From thinking of the new Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, I remembered visiting the Bone Church in Kutná Hora when I was in college. I was happy to find some pictures I took from that visit. It's amazing to see the ornate nature we create with ideas of death.