Showing posts with label things you can buy. Show all posts
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15 November 2006

Silverpoint

I finally fixed our scanner. The AC adapter blew a fuse when I plugged it into a broken transformer. One of the great things about Thailand, it's cheaper to fix something than to buy a new one. 300 baht, about $8.50. Not bad.

So in celebration I've scanned all the silverpoint drawings I've done in the past few weeks.

I still need to go to the dentist.

Second version of this drawing.

I really liked this photo of an albino deer in Germany.

Right now the teak trees are dropping their leaves.

There is a restaurant near our house called Boat. They have a nifty wooden bear head up on one of the walls.

Just a log

This is from an old drawing in one of my sketchbooks. While I drew it I was listening to an episode of This American Life about Iraqi deaths since the war.

Another log. I kinda like logs. SOLD to mysterious benefactors in Zembla.

The original sketch for this one had text reading "demijohn full of guzzaleen," a reference to Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx. These are all for sale, by the way. If anyone's interested.

12 November 2006

Please Do It Differently

I just finished another drawing on saa paper. This one features our new nofolete from a few posts back. You know, the anti-smoking one. This particular drawing was a long time in the making, with revision after revision. I finished it while listening to this particular podcast about the current state of our educational system. Mom, you might like to listen to it.

DISCLAIMER: The crutches, I insist, are animist, and have nothing to do with Dr. Seuss or Salvador DalĂ­. OK, maybe Dr. Seuss.


26 October 2006

Art Walk

Tonight was the Art Walk here in Chiang Mai, organized by AS's friends Laura and Chadwick (once upon a time they lived in Prague and went around to museums, digging up old forgotten paintings from storage, and then painting copies of said paintings onto Chadwick's body). We met up with our friend Dave at Matoom Art Space (where I was showing two drawings), and wandered around to a few of the studios. It was fun, though the highlights may have been finding a stray copy of Art Forum to look at, and talking to Dave about religion. Actually though, there were some prints up at Matoom by a 4th year BFA student named Yong that were pretty nice--apocalyptic and nice. CMU has an exceptional printmaking department, with better facilities and more space than anywhere I've been in the states. We went to the MFA show about two weeks ago and were astounded. CMU offers only one MFA degree, and it's in printmaking. Frankly the most interesting work we've seen here so far has been out of that department.

How's that for a poo eating grin?

This is one of the drawings I showed, the other can be seen here.

And some details. This was drawn on saa paper, which is made from mulberry bark.

Teak is neat. It has big leaves.

This image was inspired by an etching from a weird Scandinavian encyclopedia we have floating around the house. The tittle says "school in the year 2000" and shows a portly school master tossing books into a glorified meat grinder. The grinder is connected to wires leading to these strange apparati the students wear while seated at their desks. They're about six years too late, but I think Google has this in the works.