It burns! It burns!
It's been so relentlessly hot these past two weeks that even the ferns in our backyard got sunburnt. See how part of the frond looks bleached? Poor things.We've had record-breaking temperatures this summer. Pity the poor Husband; he had to put the kids to bed in that heat. One bright spot -- once they were sleeping, both slept more deeply than usual. TwoBoo even slept through the night until 7am.
This week is supposed to get back to normal... only 81 degrees today -- hah! -- and possible rain at the end of the week.
Tarot card #4
"Hello, beautiful. Come downstairs and see my lovely etchings/aquarium/antiques."
He does kinda look like a smooth criminal. The title came to me before the image -- I was going to paint a silhouette, but stumbled across him as I was going through my image stash.
Ever meet someone who seems to be wholly incapable of understanding your point of view, even if the person can summarize it just fine? A person who honestly thinks his or her intentions outweigh their destructive words/actions? Oh, even better -- the person who insults you as they apologize? "Sorry if you were offended."
A few of them are sociopaths, some are borderline personalities. (I believe the technical term for most of them is, as The Husband once put it, "schmuck!")
That's the Quicksilver Man. The one who slips through your fingers as you try to pin down what this person's deal is.
He does kinda look like a smooth criminal. The title came to me before the image -- I was going to paint a silhouette, but stumbled across him as I was going through my image stash.Ever meet someone who seems to be wholly incapable of understanding your point of view, even if the person can summarize it just fine? A person who honestly thinks his or her intentions outweigh their destructive words/actions? Oh, even better -- the person who insults you as they apologize? "Sorry if you were offended."A few of them are sociopaths, some are borderline personalities. (I believe the technical term for most of them is, as The Husband once put it, "schmuck!")
That's the Quicksilver Man. The one who slips through your fingers as you try to pin down what this person's deal is.
I have the next two sketched out, but it may take a while before I get them done. You know how it is.
Tarot card #3
Here's where I relocated the focal image that used to be on The Unclean tarot card.
Funny how I can barely understand the lyrics to the song that inspired the card's title. Not the Kelly Clarkson song or the Jon McLaughlin song. The one by 311, from 1997. (I am so out of the loop I didn't know there were two other songs with the same title. I also didn't know the 311 version was a track in Guitar Hero World Tour.)
This card is also my entry in Michelle Ward's latest Street Team Crusade.
With a lot of help from The Husband, I created this image in Photoshop. Then I used it on a calling card I brought to Artfest last year.
I would've liked to blend the image into this newer piece a bit more, but I'm just trying to get the ideas out first, before I lose momentum to make the others.
Again with the biohazard symbol! Here it's transferred to watercolor paper. The gray area is a gel medium transfer of a child's eyes.
This is also a "knock-off" of previous work. 
I used her image on a papier mache house sent to me as part of the Art & Soul Portland 2007 welcome packet.
There are other children in the original picture, presumably her brothers and sisters. But I like her expression -- or lack thereof -- best. She looks sullen, self-possessed, accusing and vulnerable all at once. I wonder what happened to her as an adult.
Funny how I can barely understand the lyrics to the song that inspired the card's title. Not the Kelly Clarkson song or the Jon McLaughlin song. The one by 311, from 1997. (I am so out of the loop I didn't know there were two other songs with the same title. I also didn't know the 311 version was a track in Guitar Hero World Tour.)This card is also my entry in Michelle Ward's latest Street Team Crusade.
With a lot of help from The Husband, I created this image in Photoshop. Then I used it on a calling card I brought to Artfest last year.I would've liked to blend the image into this newer piece a bit more, but I'm just trying to get the ideas out first, before I lose momentum to make the others.Again with the biohazard symbol! Here it's transferred to watercolor paper. The gray area is a gel medium transfer of a child's eyes.This is also a "knock-off" of previous work. I used her image on a papier mache house sent to me as part of the Art & Soul Portland 2007 welcome packet.There are other children in the original picture, presumably her brothers and sisters. But I like her expression -- or lack thereof -- best. She looks sullen, self-possessed, accusing and vulnerable all at once. I wonder what happened to her as an adult.