Last Stand

a failed attempt at eviction

Refuge

Lab Rat Jailbreak!

Lapse into some self-indulgent humor and I had a few giggling fits in the midst of it ... Apologies to those who might have a particular attachment for the iconic character. I'll draw something nice next. Promise!

Lost Between The Shelves

My favorite place growing up in Hickory, NC was the Elbert Ivey Memorial Library. When I got to the age where I could walk into town on my own unattended by an adult, my mom would let me spend afternoons at the library on my own, after we were done home-schooling for the day.

I made so many discoveries there -- of authors and books I still read and treasure today.

It was there that I first encountered Ray Bradbury ("The Martian Chronicles"), Brian Herbert ("Dune"), Orson Scott Card ("Ender's Game") and Douglas Adams ("Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

It was also there that I also discovered real, genuine FEAR -- by way of an anthology of scary stories for children, and ABOUT children ("Young Monsters" edited by Isaac Asimov); and it was there that, barely a teen, I dared picked up Stephen King's "Night Shift" and scared myself out of my wits -- and promptly returned the following day for more.

So many fond memories of those days, spending endless summer afternoons, lost in the shelves.

This piece is a tribute to all the bookstores and libraries around the world, but most of all to that one in particular.

Overlook

Summoning the Death Metal Apocolypse

melancholy gargoyle

"Melancholy Gargoyle" (one of 2 versions). 01/02/23. 

Micron pen, digital background. 

Background photo used w/ permission by Aleksandar Pasaric (pexels.com).

NFT - version 2

NFT - version 1

Christopher Doodles - NFT's now on OpenSea

Happy New Year! I'm pleased to announce that my collection of work from this year is now available in NFT form on OpenSea, for those who collect such. I admit when the NFT craze first took off, I was rather put off by them, largely due to obnoxious crypto-bro's pumping thousands of pixelated pabulum, generated en-mass by automated script, with little or no thought except for the dominant intent to market to the masses in get-rich-quick schemes. Suffice to say it wasn't my style. In recent weeks, however, I've encountered -- largely via Twitter -- a host of really incredible and genuine ARTISTS of all kinds, specializing in all manner of genres (death metal to manga/anime to landscapes), dedicated to honing their skills in sketching, inking, painting ... and yes: displaying their work as NFT's, which inevitably prompted me to reconsider my initial distaste and investigate further how that form could be put to better use. So, anyway -- for those interested:

• Christopher Doodles' Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/blosser_doodles
• Christopher Doodles' OpenSea NFT collection, 2022:

p.s. 2022 was a difficult and challenging year for me in many respects, but I have sought solace in art and creatively learned and advanced a great deal. Just looking at my "pen and ink" drawings from a year or two ago and today seems like night and day. Credit is definitely due to the recent discovery of Micron pens. Of these works, the majority were produced in a span of 3 months!