May 24th

May 22nd

The phrase "strangely populated tracts" does not refer mostly to non-white racial groups, nor to foreign-country ethnic groups; my intention is that most people are strange, therefore any city is strangely populated, including Los Angeles. So at the risk of being misunderstood I display this work unmodified. Race is not the main thing I'm thinking of when I mean strange. Nor should it be taken as an offense if I find someone strange...I find most people to be strange. I like the racial/ethnic/cultural diversity of Los Angeles: if I didn't, I would have moved away. I like strangeness as well, hence Surreal art is one of my favorite kinds of art.

Anomalous rainfall

A Fortean phenomenon of the funkier kind.

New work from a few days ago

Nude study, 2017

I drew this with a thick fatty black colored pencil/crayon and I placed a piece of wood underneath to create those wood patterns and textures seen. This one is from 2017, but first published today. Her right forearm is a little too long, but I consider it artistic license/expressionism: it would be difficult to fix that now in any case, because this type of crayon is not much eraseable. I like her ass, her body, and that one breast that can be seen as well. I like how this piece came out.

Nude study

This one's not supposed to be so realistic, it's stylized: if I wanted it more realistic, I would have used a reference till the area where her hips connect to her torso came out anatomically exact, but instead it's a quick freestyle. Note that the camera has caused her to look more short-proportioned than she is in the actual drawing. That's because the paper is long and her lower legs curve away from the camera. To overcome that, I will revise this drawing a bit by increasing the length of her lower legs (beneath the knees), and I may make her left hip (the one on the right in relation to the viewer) more realistic too.

Nude woman study

a new female nude drawing, it's been years since I've posted one: not everybody searches further back on my blog, so I want a new visitor to see at least one of my many nude women. I encourage visitors to search further through my blog though, because I've removed those city-street photographs that were a distraction from my art, and I've also replaced some old artwork pieces of mine with other pieces of mine (new or just not previously posted) that I feel are better

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May 11th +1

I particularly like this work which, like many, came about by accident: but this time, unusually, I was doodling with a pen on cardboard. Totally original once again because I haven't seen a work like this.

May 11th

This is a work that I did directly in ink in 2019. On May 11th, 2022, I added the sky-blue color touches with a highlighter marker.

Begun in Feb, completed in May

Drawn in February, except for the bouncing rock character, which was added May 8th or May 9th. The bouncing die and jumping jacks were drawn in February, as were the other figures.

Begun in Feb, completed in May

"Wat-baba-loobop", instead of "Wop-baba-loobop". I didn't feel like using the ethnic slur "wop". And I like how "Wat" suggests "What?", a question often asked when thinking about what happened to the world of today.

Drawn in Feb, displayed in May

This one was begun in Feb, then finished in May

This one was begun in February, then I wasn't sure how to complete it, so I left it alone for awhile, and finally returned to it yesterday, May 8th, and completed it.

Also drawn in Feb, displayed in May

This one was also drawn in Feb, and now displayed in May.

Drawn in Feb, displayed in May

This is one of many works I drew in February of 2022. I may ink and color it soon).