February Fun

Some pictures taken in the last few days of our February happenings.  Nate is doing well and Jack is loving to stomp around in our snowy driveway He also got to test drive one of Papa Ron's tractors.

Lens Eye Woman in Winter Trees

drawing in progress
A new drawing finished this evening.  

Camera Faced Man with Winter Trees, 2010

detail, Camera Faced Man with Trees, 2010

Hatched ink and charcoal. Inspired by a photograph I bought a while back. The tree limbs were fantastic and I had to spend some time with them. I'm now working on the next drawing along this line. Somehow these camera mechanisms sneak in as I draw, merging themselves into faces, etc. I keep coming back to the idea of the head being a camera...just a dark box imaging the world as it goes by. Being a photographer, I instinctively look at the composition of things and my drawings reflect this automatic 'camera eye.' I also see that with the convenience of digital cameras, phones, etc., people are facially connected to a lens almost constantly...recording the world in mind and machine. But what if the earliest cameras, the large and cumbersome ones had been so common in daily life? That's where I'm headed...

Go Suck on a Wet Sock

Today it arrived...that shitty part of winter that nobody likes. It's sneaky. The sun is out, and the sky is clear, but there is the most horrible icey wind. The renegade long parts of my bangs are dangling in my face because that stupid wind loosened them from the shorter ones. Jack doesn't like being indoors all day and when I let him loose outside, he dashed to the nearest puddle and came back shreiking in pain from the cold socks and shoes. I have him back in the office now and just noticed that he was sucking the water out of his wet sock like we all used to do with the wash cloth in the tub.

Ah winter with a toddler. What a change.