Harp




Unheard music--or half-heard music--being sweeter

Rapid Growth




Too much too soon

A Cloud




I found this drawing today. It's from 1998. A cloud with too much vivacity--Mayakovsky's A Cloud in Trousers.

Crystal Ball




Everything's in there.

Part of a Recent Painting



A detail of a still life, with vesel and monumental plant stem

Red Still Life



Red Still Life (flowers in a vase, fruit)

Pump




It keeps everything moving

Feline Vortex




Left-hand cat and right-hand cat.

Two Cats




Pinot and his brother Grigio

Pinot




This is our cat, Pinot (he has an almost twin brother named Grigio).
He likes to hang over the edges of thihgs--or to dangle down into the gaping space of the stairwell from the second floor of our house.

Overcast Still Life




The old Pathetic Fallacy in India ink

Hasty Plant Study




Time Presses

Runic Object




Leaning

Airborne Still Life




Nocturnal, and hovering above a fictive sea

Pierrot




Reminds me that I want to watch Les Enfants du Paradis again tonight

Aqueous Figure




Made of pigment and ennui

Stereo Chair



Gran Confort with spherical speakers to port and starboard (homage to Clairtone)

A Museum




....in Venice. With water lapping at its treasures. Thinking about the museum design work of architects Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn.

Floating Figure



Very rough and hurried. Mermaid-esque.

Clockface




Time isn't money in this studio--it's just time

Big Blue Urn




Shiny, glossy

A Bottle of India Ink




Yesterday's notebook page

Ampersand




Big as an apartment building

The Last Laugh




Nice and hysterical

Hearth or Far Shore




An early notenook page

Anguish

Vase With Parked Automobile




A shard of notebook automatism

VESSEL-ESQUE




Almost a teacup

GEORG TRAKL




Coming to his writing late, but with compensatory excitement.

An Idea




Just in time too.

Dame Edith

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Everyone ought to have a cache of guilty pleasures and I have a large, well-stocked one, chief among them being my collecting and avid reading of books by the Sitwells, Edith and her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell. The little inept drawing of Edith was made while I was reading Victoria Glendinning's biography of her. I see I was also reading Bruce Chatwin's novel, Utz, at more or less the same time.

SCEPTIC



No matter how rough I make this face, it always looks Roman--or at least classical. It's kind of pleasant, however, to think of one's drawing as a sort of weathering.

Haughty Bird




A scrap of creamy notebook paper, some wanton sweeps of blue paint. They seem to hsve made a bird.

Nautilus




Sometimes you just want to paint and paint and paint until there's nothing but paint everywhere and whatever image wishes to be born from the miasma can find its own way to the surface.

Woman With Drawers



Drawers as in pull-out drawers in furniture (not as in underwear pants). Probably thinking of Salvadore Dali's giraffes and elephants with drawers

Fungi




It's probably the lastminute dots that make the drawing fungoid.

Man Releasing Bird




Releasing a bird is like getting (and keeping) an idea. It's like climbing a ladder.

Nightbird




Looking a bit perplexed, probably at the speed of its composition.

Scent Bottle



All blues seem mysterious to me

Asteroid Ascending


If I'm going to post pages from my daily notebook--and it appears that I am--then I thought it just as well to begin with an image of ascension: in this case, of a blob that seemed (when attached to a seeep of white pigmeht on my fingers) to be lifting off from somewhere else, rather than heading in to terrorize us.