The November Wind

The November wind

The November wind tests a stalwart soul. 

A man kicks dry brown leaves which swirl and flutter in the selfish wind.

His thoughts, like hopeful green leaves now drained of color and urgency, roam and fidget never to be completed or understood.

11-09-15
watercolor, pencil

Toussaint

I study the faces of Nature and look for my ancestors

As the leaves fall, birds' nests are revealed

Beckoning scratchy bowls 

11-1-2012
ink, watercolor, colored pencil, crayon

Leaf Animals

An Autumn Castle

"10-13-10a" mixed media 8.5 x 11"

Some blogs are newsy little things with lots of links from a blogger trying be helpful and get you to linger for a few minutes at their site. But a lot of artists' blogs are just pictures too. Maybe a caption. As the season progresses and it gets too cold to draw outside, I'll be showing this kind of stuff more: just pictures from my studio and a little text. Hope you like it.



This picture started out with heavy marker outlines and color. I made the pink sky area and just stopped in my tracks. The autumn trees got added next and then I figured out how to make the marker lines less massive so they even trembled or shimmered a bit. The scumbled-on clouds rounded out the formula. Not very interesting but pretty to look at and satisfying to make. If you're new to this thing, I call these "Crystal Cities" and I have a lot more posted here.

Gathering Nuts

"Red Squirrel, Lake Waban" colored pencil

Red Squirrel, le lac Waban" crayon de couleur

Fall is definitely here. And we are harvesting different things:

Some sort of flying circus

Une sorte de Flying Circus

Fearless Fox

Le renard intrépide

Birds in flying machines

Les oiseaux dans des machines volantes

We're having a good time over here. I hope you are too.