Sunday, August 18, 2024

xenomorph / aliens / romulus tribute

Drawn in celebration of the release of "Alien: Romulus",
the latest in my favorite 45 year old sci-fi horror franchise.





 

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Stephen King, "Night Shift" [tribute]

"And the rats - huge ones that made those on third look like dwarfs. God knew what they were eating down here. They were continually overturning boards and bags to reveal huge nests of shredded newspaper, watching with atavistic loathing as the pups fled into the cracks and crannies, their eyes huge and blind with the continuous darkness..."

- #stephenking, "Graveyard Shift"


 

Star Wars - Battle of Hoth


I have only very vague recollections of seeing the first Star Wars film in the theater; 
it was “The Empire Strikes Back” that had a significant impression on me, 
especially the "battle of Hoth". I'll never forget the first time I saw 
those towering AT-AT walkers appear on the horizon, and the chill of fear. 
(Now THOSE were some FX, before the age of CGI ...)

I devoted many a moment recreating that scene as a kid -- it's been a few decades, 
but thought I'd try it again. Of course, I had to throw in the Imperial Droid as well. 


 

Sunday, July 28, 2024

"every walk with nature..."

“In every walk with Nature 
one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir, 1877. 

 

Sunday, June 30, 2024

"I went out for a walk..."


“I only went out for a walk,
and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found,
was really going in.”
— John Muir, 1938

 

Sunday, June 23, 2024

the poetry of the sea

"But where, after all, 
would be the poetry of the sea 
were there no wild waves?” 
— Joshua Slocum



 

Monday, March 18, 2024

bloodflowers

'bloodflowers' 8.5x11" pen and ink. “Bloodflowers” - loosely motivated by memories of a certain infamous conversation between a Ukrainian civilian and a Russian soldier during the early days of the 2022 invasion and a welcome gift of sunflower seeds…


 

Sunday, February 18, 2024

fun fair

Doodle word-prompt: “funfair”,
(with a little dark twist of my own,
creatively speaking)


 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

"content creator"


(a wry reflection on how participating in social media 
can devolve into an  obsession/compulsion to produce “content” 
in a perpetual, if fleeting, search for attention … 
and not without some irony, sharing on social media. go figure!)

 

Thursday, January 25, 2024

"Rest is not idleness..." -- John Lubbock

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

Thursday, December 21, 2023