Here's one that's more more sartorially ornate than the previous portraits, and this woman had an intense stare as she sat for the camera.
Tag: drawing
Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for “something puffed out”.
Tuffet, pouffe or hassock are all terms for a piece of furniture used as a footstool or low seat. The names tuffet and hassock are both derived from English names for a small grassy hillock or clump of grass, in use since at least the sixteenth century. Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for… Continue reading Pouffe is a nineteenth century French import for “something puffed out”.
Tempuratures at an all-time high
Another drawing-in-progress of an old photo– Update: click to see finished drawing. Well, it's no longer winter, but this drawing remains (as yet) unfinished. In other news, more of the same: strange, unsettling dreams to accompany the busy time that is Spring. No complaints! I would add some of the dreams here, but there is… Continue reading Tempuratures at an all-time high
a pencilling in progress
ink, pencil, make shapes as instructed
the glass cage
I had a dream back in mid-February, while I was in the early stages of reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, and it was odd, but not really odd until about ten days later, when I reached a point in the book in which something so similar to a room from that dream was described in… Continue reading the glass cage
Burning the candle at both ends
February sped past, huh? I know, I'm always writing about T I M E. The graphic design business has picked up again– here i am suddenly working on about seven or eight projects at once, after the dearth of projects that was known as January. It goes this way. Additionally I have been working on… Continue reading Burning the candle at both ends
some drawings in ink
floating island of sod
Here is a drawing I did of a memory of a long-ago dream; one in which we visited a place where the people lived in huts on floating sod islands in a large river. It was a seasonal place– when the river rose during the flood season, they sailed elsewhere by pushing the islands with… Continue reading floating island of sod










