purple nurple

i have now completed the project, although as i sit here in the radio station, my OCD-sense is telling me that i almost definitely did not frame one of the drawings. i am starting to freak out a little, because if it is not sitting on the scanner bed at home, then i may have lost it somewhere. and i don't have a frame for it. that is, unless i already framed it, and i'm just being crazy. in any case, there isn't anything i can do about it right now. so here are some sketches from joo's class:


i've really been going heavy on the purple ink lately. thanks to doug, who gave it to me.

the last of it

pretty much the last of it, anyway. i've got to add text and such to some, but for the most part, the drawings are done:



i've got 36 total, and given the fact that several of them have been redone two or three times, i probably did at least sixty, all in all. i'm one frame short, i need glass or plexi for many of them, and i still have to clean and paint all of the frames.

everybody wants something, they never give up

here are some more works from the cambodia project. it's the home stretch, so i'm gonna try to churn out at least 15-20 over spring break. i found some awful photographs, i don't even know if i can do them or not.

anyway, here's what i have for now:


the last one is going to be a postcard, with the lettering and all, and i'm going to do the reverse side as well, with postage and such. it'll be a random tourist's reflections of what he or she noticed while visiting cambodia, based on things i've gathered from a few people who have been there.

some people should never be nude

here's more stuff from joo's class. the first two were actually sketches for an illustration of j.d. salinger's "a perfect day for bananafish". i ended up using the second one to make the final illustration, then i cut and pasted the sketches into my book and colored 'em up. the third picture is from class today. the model was all shaved--very weird.

more cambodia work

here are the latest cambodia drawings. well, one you've seen before, but i added text. and the khieu samphan one is old, but i never scanned it until today.


we brought everything in today, and tom didn't have anything bad to say, really. he only suggested that perhaps i should paint all of the frames the same color. i'm thinking either a neutral color or white. white's good, because it'll be hung on a white wall, and the frames will sort of fade out and leave the pictures as the focus. any color suggestions? or does anyone think i should leave them as they are?

car thieves and migraines

new drawings abound up in here:

the last one is from an old photo of me and chris when we lived in denver. the second one is from tuesday evening, when i had to go back in for a c.t. scan because i was having headaches again. they said it was just residual swelling from the surgery, and i've been okay since then--except my hair started falling out again today, which is a bummer.

on a better note, julia and i went out to speonk (on the east end of long island) this weekend, and it was a nice break. and she got a new car in riverhead on sunday, so that's a load off of her shoulders (her car was stolen a couple of weeks ago, remember?).

okay, time to get on the thesis train for a while.