His Holiness the XIth Mindrolling Trichen

His Holiness passed last week and today is the lunar eclipse and so very auspicious day for big karmic returns on practice. The attached song is a prayer to Padmasambavha of whom HH Mindrolling was an emanation. May it be of use.



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Now playing: Lama Surya Das & Steven Halpern - The Seven Line Prayer
via FoxyTunes

Wolverine Hand

Drawergeeks are doing wolverine this week, since I was doing a study of a hand, here is my version.

Older photos of canvasses

This is what I did when I rediscovered oil painting last year......




I also realized that my hit counter seems to be going up by twos, I got all excited and thought I was popular, only to discover it is a glitch..... sigh.

My Date With Shane, Sarah, Mark, Jeremy, etc.....

Not sure if any of you saw "My Date with Drew" but it was a super sweet documentary about a guy who always had a crush on Drew Barrymore and he wins a game show (the winning answer was Drew Barrymore) and he decides to take his winnings and buy himself a camera (which he plans on returning) and make a movie about his attempt to get a date with Drew. It is very cute -primarily cause he isn't creepy or stalkerish at all, he just wants a date with Drew.

Well, I kind of feel that way about the amazingly talented people linked to your right......mostly I think because many of them are funny, sarcastic and silly as well as being talented. A really important aspect I think. I dated/was friends with a guy in high school named Scott (problem is that I can't remember his last name) who I am sure grew up to be an illustrator. He was amazingly talented and wanted to work for Nelvana. But more than this he was a complete goofball. He came to school in drag one day, and not fabulous drag, more like crazy aunt Mabel drag. He just wanted to see what it was like to "be a girl". He rocked, I really enjoyed him, I miss him and I don't think I ever told him any of that. Anyway, I have good historical associations with goofy illustrators.

So how do I break into the secret world of nutty illustrators? do I really have to go on the road and make a documentary? ROAD TRIP!!!! Who's in?

Not much to say today..

Just wanted to put this pic up...... hope the whole, oh I don't know, what is it now.... zero people? that come to this blog appreciate my efforts. In homage to Triumph the Insult dog, "I keed, I keed."

What if No One Comes?

I'm worried. I feel like a hostess that is getting ready for a party - putting out the bean dip, the salsa and chips (I imagine myself in a 1950s outfit with a little ruffly apron whilst I do this) - who is absolutely certain that no one will come to her soiree. What if no one shows? Does it matter? I flutter, I fix my hair and check myself in the mirror for the tenth time and then I realize that weirdly, it does matter.

Part of why I did this was for a community, to broaden my contacts. I move in a pretty closed circle right now. And while academics can be some of the funniest, most curious inspiring and caring people around...... I also want my life to be full of people with other perspectives as well. It is essential to me that I remain grounded in a larger context than the university campus.

Then also I guess the fear of no one showing up is well .... I did the work, I gussied up, I'm ready and everything. I am vulnerable with my art out there, I am not formally trained. Lord knows I'm just messing around. It is a side of myself I am not used to showing. So come one, come all, and please have some salsa a corn chip or two .... and leave comments so I know you were here.

Comb-over Man and Racism Cake

I had my students do art projects for their final assignments in a class entitled "Roots of Racism". I am about the head into campus to grade them and I have been told that one of the students left a "cake" for me. I am trying to imagine a racism cake - acrid and ugly. I will be sure to let you know. But think it would make a good topic for the drawergeeks. Maybe I will sketch on the way in, and see what I can do.

Well, as you can see from the above racism cake was just a little too serious for me. It actually turned out to be very cleverly done and was a race cake not a racism cake. The student layered the cake chocolate on the bottom, yellow cake in the middle and white cake on top in order to mimic racial hierarchies of the enlightenment (and today) and iced it all in white since we are all contained by white cultural norms. Talk about thinking outside of the box! I am so thrilled with the exuberance shown in these art projects. I will be sad to leave, a little.

However, in regards to sketching S.T. Lewis had an entry on his blog for a TOONCLUB assignment (I think) to draw the most useless superheros. His was Mr. Invisiblegs, his only super power being that his legs are invisible. I loved this idea so let me introduce you to comb-over man! Ready and able (with comb in hand) to give bad hairdos to men the world over.....and the muscles to kick your butt should you have the temerity to snicker at any of his posse. Maybe if I ever figure out Photoshop I will color him and fix his cape, and hands and thighs.....damn it I'll do it over. But the idea is good, right?