Faith

I’m becoming accustomed to looking at faith as the displacement of doctrine and dogma, a subtractive process, rather than the accumulation of doctrinal and dogmatic content, an additive process not unlike the greedy chipmunk gorging on nuts until his cheeks nearly explode.
Chipmunk

Freehand sketch in Procreate using a reference photo in a side-by-side manner. Sty-HD stylus too.

Idiosyncratic Splotch: Missing Subjunctive Mood

splotch

ArtRage, Procreate, iColorama

I’m circling back to add a comment from Facebook friend and portfoliolongo.com frequent flier, John F., who mustn’t be too off put by this post honoring him. His comment regarding the above image: “Yogi frog on purple lily pad in lovely sea green pool.” Now, why couldn’t I have thought of that?

Skip’s Old Ford

Here’s the photo I took of Skip’s Old Ford pickup, which I rendered in Procreate. He told me the year, but now I’m not sure he said 1967 or 1968.  This guide might help the curious.

SkipsOldFord
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Quadradoodle 2

OK, these Sketch Club kaleidoscopic, snapshot images are habit forming! There’s something very appealing and tranquilizing about doing them.

quadradoodle2

I modified the original image, see below, in iColorama.

Orig-quadradoodle2

I’m thinking handkerchiefs…

Dogs and Ventriloquy

Dogs are remarkable. In some ways they’re our artifacts, and we speak through them. In others ways we’re their artifacts, and they speak through us.

Dogs and Ventriloquy

See also “bark…bark…bark”

I’m trying out some things in Sketch Club, like using my finger and not a stylus.

faith

faith

the fullness of emptiness

Sketch Club & Phonto

LinkedAround

LinkedAround

Done in Paper by Fifty Three using Phonto.

Courtroom Sculpture

Only the most inconspicuous sculptors are permitted to depict proceedings in a court of law in which cameras are not allowed.

court sculptor

Paper by 53, 53 Paper, Paper by Fifty Three, Paper, and so on.