yellopad

Soiled baby

2005-03-21T23:52:00.000-08:00

"A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty." -- Mark Twain

[pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Bang 'n Splash!

2005-03-11T12:45:00.000-08:00

"Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[ballpoint pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Monstrous love

2005-03-10T09:58:00.000-08:00

"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!" -- Denis Diderot

[ballpoint pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Lipstick

2005-03-08T07:33:00.000-08:00

"God Wears Lipstick" -- Karen Berg

[non-photo blue pencil on yellowpad, PS filters]

Mona stroked

2005-03-07T18:57:00.000-08:00

"When Mona stroked her hair I stroked mine." -- yellopad

[pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Elizabethan Lunch

2005-03-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

"Ah, what food these morsels be!" -- Billy Shakespeare

[felt tip on yellow pad, PS filters]

Home movies

2005-03-05T15:44:00.000-08:00

"They say God has existed from the beginning of time and will exist beyond the end of time. Can you imagine trying to sit through his home movies?" -- Scott Roeben

[ball point pen on storyboard paper, PS filters]

Frightened

2005-03-04T19:02:00.000-08:00

"Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile." -- Soren Kierkegaard

[Felt tip on storyboard paper]

Suspicion

2005-03-03T10:34:00.000-08:00

"Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn’t got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady’s watch are revolving more purposely than he is." -- Karl Marx

[ballpoint pen on yellow pad]

A child within a child within a child within a child...

2005-03-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

"I have slept in bed with many children. It's very right. It's what the world needs - more love, more heart."
--Michael Jackson

[pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Dem Sweet Treats

2005-02-24T19:03:00.000-08:00

"There’s plenty men dat takes a wife lak dey do a joint uh sugar-cane. It’s round, juicy an’ sweet when dey gits it. But de squeeze an’ grind, squeeze an’ grind an’ wring tell dey wring every drop uh pleasure dat’s in ‘em out. When dey’s satisfied dat dey is wrung dry, dey treats dem jes lak dey do a cane-chew. Dey throws ‘em away. Dey knows whut dey is doin’ while dey is at it, an hates theirselves fuh it but they keeps on hangin’ after huh tell she’s empty. Den dey hates huh fuh bein’ a cane-chew an’ in de way." -- Zora Neale Hurston

[pen and ink, PS filters]

Dark Debutante

2005-02-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

"One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age."
-- Oscar Wilde

[pen and ink, PS filter]

Egghead

2005-02-20T01:59:00.000-08:00

"When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form … one inevitably ends up with an egg." -- Pablo Picasso

[Mr. Picassohead, PS filters]

Self-portraits past

2005-02-18T11:08:00.000-08:00

"A pale self-portrait looked out of the mirror with the serious eyes of all self-portraits." -- Vladimir Nabokov

[pen, col-erase pencil on paper, PS filters]

Cut Lass

2005-02-17T23:10:00.000-08:00

She sings of a sword so white,
so luminous, that its own light
alone must slay;
she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
and I creep away.
-- Hilda Doolittle

[pen on paper, PS filter]

Groaner

2005-02-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

"Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself." -- Mason Cooley

[pen on wrinkled paper, PS filter]

The Lamp

2005-02-13T14:57:00.000-08:00

"And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." -- Isaac Watts

[photo collage, PS filters]

Spheres

2005-02-12T21:13:00.000-08:00

"I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either." --Karl Kraus

[pen on storyboard paper, PS filter]

Gentle Thievery

2005-02-11T22:16:00.000-08:00

"I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love’s wrong, than hate’s known injury."
-- William Shakespeare

[ink on illustration board, PS filter]

Pussy Pancake

2005-02-10T22:12:00.000-08:00

Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you gone?
I've run off to Hollywood to look at the stars.
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what have you done?
Didn't look both ways and got run over by cars.
-- D.Orlando (with apologies to Mother Goose)

[ink and Zipatone on illustration board, PS filters]

Perplexed

2005-02-08T19:03:00.000-08:00

"What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men." -- from the Bhagavad Gita

[pen on yellow pad, PS filters]

Provoked to sleep

2005-02-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

"The worst thing about getting your heart broken is going to sleep and knowing you're going to wake up and nothing has changed" --anonymous

[col-erase pencil, animation paper, PS filters]

Whispers

2005-02-05T06:05:00.000-08:00

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
-- Errol Flynn[marker on pad paper, PS filter]

Addiction

2005-02-04T13:17:00.000-08:00

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."-- Carl Jung

[ink, pencil on yellow pad, PS lighting]

Galatea

2005-02-01T17:59:00.000-08:00

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography." -- Federico Fellini

[soft pencil on yellow pad, PS shadow]

Angel baby

2005-01-28T14:30:00.000-08:00

"I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit."
-- Wesley Ruggles [ink on paper, PS]

Wary

2005-01-26T17:46:00.000-08:00

"Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure." -- G.C. Lichtenberg

[pen on yellow pad, PS]

Thinkin'

2005-01-22T14:56:00.000-08:00

"Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible." --Aristotle

[col-erase pencil on yellow pad]

Flee bird

2004-12-10T18:28:00.000-08:00

"Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey." -- Mason Cooley

[colored pencils, Photoshop]

Horse Dream

2004-12-05T18:07:00.000-08:00

"O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows. "
-- Louise Bogan
[color pencil, ink, Photoshop]

Blonde expression

2004-11-23T17:51:00.000-08:00

"I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for." -- Otis Criblecoblis
[soft pencil]

Charcoal to embers

2004-11-22T17:47:00.000-08:00

"For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife." -- The Bible

[charcoal pencil, felt tip]

Africano

2004-11-21T17:35:00.000-08:00

"For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." -- Maya Angelou

[pen and ink, Photoshop]

Truthless

2004-11-20T17:02:00.000-08:00

"Women receive
the insults of men
with tolerance,
having been bitten
in the nipple
by their toothless gums."
-- Dilys Laing

[pen, Photoshop]

Opera Mouth

2004-11-19T23:44:00.000-08:00

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." -- W.H. Auden

[water felt tip, mosaic, Photoshop]

Passage to Heaven

2004-11-18T23:47:00.000-08:00

"I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own heaven to be happy." -- Capt. Eli Stormfield (Mark Twain)
[ink on tracing paper, Photoshop]

Aardvarker

2004-11-17T06:55:00.000-08:00

"They say 'aardvark' never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance." -- a Ronald Reagan variant
[felt tip, Photoshop]

Profile

2004-11-16T13:02:00.000-08:00

"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own." -- W.H. Auden

[ink and paint, Photoshop]

Negation

2004-11-15T11:09:00.000-08:00

"Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."-- E.M. Cioran
[vinyl paint on cel, scratch-off, Photoshop]

Sam

2004-11-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

"A samurai without a sword is like a poet without a pen." -- D. Orlando
[blue pencil, Photoshop]

Mad King

2004-11-13T14:59:00.000-08:00

"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" -- William Shakespeare
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Mad King [detail]

2004-11-12T02:54:00.000-08:00

"He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath." -- William Shakespeare
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Demonstrative proof

2004-11-11T01:05:00.000-08:00

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done." -- William Faulkner
[felt tip, tracing paper, Photoshop]

Cheers

2004-11-10T02:45:00.000-08:00

"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism." -- E.M. Forster
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Beseeching

2004-11-09T08:10:00.000-08:00

"Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all."-- Bible quote
[charcoal, Photoshop]

Hector

2004-11-08T11:37:00.000-08:00

"What’s past and what’s to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion;
But in this extant moment, faith and truth,
Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing,
Bids thee, with most divine integrity,
From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome!"-- Shakespeare
[blue pencil]

Rebel smoke

2004-11-07T20:17:00.000-08:00

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."-- Albert Camus

[pen & ink, Photoshop]

In the midst of 1954...

2004-11-06T19:32:00.000-08:00

"With four walk-in closets to walk in,
Three bushes, two shrubs, and one tree,
The suburbs are good for the children,
But no place for grown-ups to be."-- Judith Viorst
[felt tip, card stock, Photoshop]

Straight hair

2004-11-05T18:09:00.000-08:00

"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."-- William Hazlitt
[colored pencil]

Chicken & grenade

2004-11-04T18:57:00.000-08:00

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."-- Aldous Huxley
[pen, Photoshop]

Golden chimp

2004-11-03T18:38:00.000-08:00

"Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone."-- Oliver Herford
[pen, Photoshop]

Face off

2004-11-02T20:30:00.000-08:00

"Face the fearful with no fear, and its fearfulness disappears."-- Chinese proverb
[pencil, Photoshop]

Bald

2004-11-01T05:53:00.000-08:00

"If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color."-- Mark Schnitzius
[felt tip, Photoshop]

1985

2004-10-31T01:07:00.000-08:00

"I want to put a ding in the universe." -- Steve Jobs

[digicam, Photoshop]

Punkins

2004-10-30T13:15:00.000-07:00

"We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history."Ralph Waldo Emerson
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Halloween Greetings

2004-10-29T17:16:00.000-07:00

"The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[ink, felt tip, Photoshop, chrome]

Bombed

2004-10-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

"Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way."--- Joseph L. Mankiewicz[pen, Photoshop]

Sprawl

2004-10-27T20:25:00.000-07:00

"Your top has sunk too low,
Your base has spread too wide,
For you to roll one stone
Down if you tried."
-- Robert Frost[red pencil, on animation paper]

Got whip?

2004-10-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
-- Diogenes[pencil, Photoshop]

Ciggies

2004-10-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

"Occasionally the devil has crawled in and out of me, through my cigarettes I suppose, my passionate habit."-- Anne Sexton[pen, color pencil, Photoshop]

Golden Healer

2004-10-24T01:47:00.000-07:00

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."
-- Sarah Fielding
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Buzzboy

2004-10-23T09:18:00.000-07:00

"A closed mouth catches no flies." -- Miguel De Cervantes

[felt tip]

Melodrama Queen

2004-10-22T23:01:00.000-07:00

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength." -- Ovid

[pencil, Photoshop]

Knife Boy

2004-10-21T11:44:00.000-07:00

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
-- James Russell Lowell
[crayon, Photoshop]

Gaucho

2004-10-20T17:06:00.000-07:00

"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."
Marlene Dietrich
[ink, Photoshop]

Marathon

2004-10-19T18:42:00.000-07:00

"Persistence will grind an iron beam down into a needle."
-- Chinese proverb
[pencil, Photoshop]

Hands up

2004-10-18T01:04:00.000-07:00

"A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
-- anonymous
[soft pencil, Photoshop]

Enslave me

2004-10-17T10:04:00.000-07:00

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[colored pencils, Photoshop]

Embrace me

2004-10-16T11:35:00.000-07:00

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
--Victor Hugo
[pen on animation paper, Photoshop]

That's Amoeba!

2004-10-15T17:52:00.000-07:00

"Asexuality: it's not just for amoebas anymore."
-- slogan on T-shirt
[felt tip, Photoshop]

On her toes

2004-10-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."
-- Anton Chekhov
[ink, pencil, Photoshop]

Beyond the screen door

2004-10-13T13:03:00.000-07:00

"Separation can be simultaneously solid and porous like a screen door."
-- D. Orlando
[colored pencil on graph paper, Photoshop]

Squint

2004-10-12T01:50:00.000-07:00

"To push the world away or to focus it in closer, squeeze your eyes tightly." -- D. Orlando

[pen, colored pencil, Photoshop]

Red vs. Blue

2004-10-11T17:30:00.000-07:00

"Creating an undesired stalemate is the height of stupidity"
-- anonymous
[felt tip, ink, Photoshop]

Furcht up

2004-10-10T07:47:00.000-07:00

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard
[35mm, crayon, Photoshop]

Staremaster

2004-10-09T01:04:00.000-07:00

"All that we are not stares back at what we are."
-- W.H. Auden quotes
[colored pencils, Photoshop]

Wild man

2004-10-08T01:28:00.001-07:00

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
[chalk, Photoshop]

Lip

2004-10-07T21:17:00.000-07:00

"Smile -- It's the second best thing you can do with your lips."
-- anonymous
[colored pencil, Photoshop]

Warhol's Deli

2004-10-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

"In the future sandwiches will last 15 minutes." -- D. Orlando

[sesame roll, salami, ham, mortadella, provolone, oil, lettuce, tomato, Photoshop]

Irritation

2004-10-05T19:07:00.000-07:00

"Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by." -- anonymous

[pencil, Photoshop]

Writer's block

2004-10-04T16:19:00.000-07:00

"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom"
-- Jason Zebehazy
[pencil, Photoshop, cut out, paint daubs]

Sabia

2004-10-03T01:04:00.000-07:00

"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[color pencil, Photoshop, paint daubs]

Boy Zero

2004-10-02T01:04:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes it is useful to know how big your zero is."
-- anonymous
[fountain pen, Photoshop, 50% colored pencil]

Vainglorious Gloria

2004-10-01T01:04:00.000-07:00

"A conceited person never gets anywhere because she thinks she is already there." -- anonymous

[charcoal on paper]

A beak for hire

2004-09-30T01:04:00.000-07:00

"I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked."
-- Raymond Chandler
[Photoshop]

Glass of wind

2004-09-29T01:04:00.000-07:00

"Language is wine upon the lips." -- Virginia Woolf

[pen and ink, Photoshop, blur, cutout]

Snap Boy

2004-09-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

"Blessed are the cracked, for they let the light through."
-- Spike Milligan
[felt tip, color pencil]

Wally

2004-09-27T07:52:00.000-07:00

"Gee, there's something wrong with just about everything, isn't there Dad?" -- The Beaver

[felt tip, Photoshop]

Luck and strength

2004-09-26T00:04:00.000-07:00

"Luck and strength go together. When you get lucky, you have to have the strength to follow through. You also have to have the strength to wait for the luck."-- Mario Puzo

[pencil, Photoshop]

Dimple

2004-09-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

"A dimple on the chin, the devil within." -- Pope Paul VI

[color pencil on animation paper]

The Last Angry Stump

2004-09-24T08:41:00.000-07:00

"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
-- Winnie the Pooh
[pen and ink]

Never let them see you sweat

2004-09-23T20:07:00.000-07:00

"Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do)"
-- Dorothy Parker

[color pencils, Photoshop]

Sun or rain

2004-09-22T00:04:00.001-07:00

"Don't sit under an umbrella waiting for it to rain"
-- anonymous

[crayon on animation paper, Photoshop]

Sisters' song

2004-09-21T02:38:00.000-07:00

[ink on notepad, text]

Above the mark

2004-09-20T11:54:00.000-07:00

[ink on yellow pad, Photoshop, text]

Hard to read

2004-09-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

[pencil on yellow pad, text]

Compelled

2004-09-18T11:46:00.000-07:00

[pencil on yellow pad, text]

Hysteria-tinged monotony

2004-09-17T00:19:00.000-07:00

[pencil on yellow pad, text]

Princess

2004-09-16T00:04:00.000-07:00

[color pencils on animation paper]

Mr. and Mrs. Father Divine

2004-09-15T18:41:00.000-07:00

[color pencil on paper, Photoshop]