The next Adventure!!!
here I posted to pics that I think are nice goodbye pics. There are so many ideas for this next adventure, I know where I'm going next but the rest I will let pan out as the trip goes, oh course. Amongst the exciting ideas and things that may happen are, adventures to save the planet and and oceans before its to late, going to talk to the wise natives of this land, maybe just a trip to concentrate on the art and get more funds, the continent down under, or pyramids in the americas, and many many more ideas. ...what will happen for sure is a trip of wild abandon and going off the map. I have been all up in civilization for to long. One looses touch if one is not careful. Love and thanks to the hospitality of Cat and Troy this summer and to everyone that helped.

Here's my wall at the NCN convention. Ooooooh, man, I have a lot to learn. I was feeling like a baby drawing next to masters. It's ok. All part of the path. I learned a lot and there are lots of different directions that I want to try now. I found out how much art can just really be whatever you want! Who knew?! So this wall is pretty much stuff just like my park sketches. Hopefully I will be learning and doing more and better work here soon. I will try to break out of my bounderies... in life and in drawing.
I drew this here dude with the glasses. I was pretty proud of it. Starting to feel a little more brave with the stretching it all out. There is still a lot of things that I would change, do different, do better and all that crap, but this is a step in a better direction. Thanks to everyone at the NCN!!!

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ഹിയര് ഇറ്റ്സ് I'm getting my old hippy van up and running again and I finally bought a solar panel for it. I have always wanted one. As you can see by the light on the panel, it is working and collecting a charge even on a rainy day with no sun. And I found these feathers from a hawk and a big forclosed house to squat while walking in the woods. Missouri is full of treasures!

Halloween drawings

here's another one of bobby.   hes fun to draw.   i think it would really look a lot like him if it was in color.   it does look like him anyway but color would be better
this spacey young fellow wanted to be playing bajo and riding a unicorn.   it was a fun time drawing and talking to him
this couple searched me out!  wow, it feels so good that they wanted one from me.
this young kid kind of had a sour face the whole time
here is another one of dave...hahaha.    sometimes he says he likes them,  sometimes he says he doesn't.   He stares at them a lot when he works there.    I put this one in a demo frame and then when he was working at that stand and I wasn't, he took it back out of the frame.   It feels good that they definitly strike a cord with him.   That must mean he can see it to.    I made it raining candy corn, because I think candy corn is such a wierd invention and it just seems like what might fall from the sky in davids world...plus its halloween time.  

"Sometimes it happens that a person can name the exact moment when his or her life changed irrevocably. For Cleve Backster, it was early morning on February 2, 1966, at thirteen minutes, fifty-five seconds of chart time for a polygraph he was administering. One of the world's experts on polygraphs, and the creator of the Backster Zone Comparison Test, the standard used by lie detection examiners worldwide, Backster had threatened the subject's well-being in hopes of triggering a response. The subject had responded electrochemically to this threat. The subject was a plant."

This is from a Derrick Jensen book also, but you can do a search for more information on these and other fascinating experiments that can only change every hypothesis of what westerners consider to be alive and conscious. In light of what he has proven here, it's not much of a stretch to imagine the Giai hypothesis that the entire earth is alive with consciousness. Some native tribes have reported that they see everything as alive, the rocks the rivers and trees, and that the white man sees everything as dead and there for the taking , the rocks the rivers and the trees and sometimes the white man doesn't even see some other people as alive. Since that test Mr. Backster has done many many tests with plants and had amazing discoveries. They are experiments that you can even recreate yourself and you can find out why sciences narrow rigidity won't allow the tests to be accepted.

the meaning of meaning

" WHAT'S THE POINT?  Is it to accumulate wealth?  If you were to ask 10,000 people if their main goal is to accumulate wealth and material possessions, the overwhelming majority would say 'no'.  But if the answer to this question were  to be based not on their words, but on how they spend most of their waking hours, the answer would be a resounding 'yes'."

"What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control?  What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects, and emotions that we so needlessly fear?  What if the point instead is to let go of that control?  What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees?  What if the point is to taste each other's sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek?  What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to birdsong, to watch dragonflies hover, to look at your lover's face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze?  What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them?  What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, and experience things on their own terms?  What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, angerwhen angry, thoughtful when full of thought?  What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be?"

     

That was from "A Language Older Then Words" by Derrick Jensen and I completely agree with this guy and what he has to say.    We should all feel pretty silly for all the times we have passed on these things and on real life or love for more school or work or more money.   Silly is to nice of a word for how we should feel about selling our lives and our friendships.   

Anyway, I miss everybody out there and all the friends along the way.   I hope to see you all again.    

Speaking of missing good friends,  Thanks to Kaitlynn for starting to teach me something about watercolor and making swirly designs.   My best art teacher and friend this summer.   Luck and love.  I will see you again.  

park sketches

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I just thought the bodys on this one were pretty groovy looking


here is me at my stand with some of my demos and below is a drawing of Boby, i dont have a photo of him but there is one later on this blog. it totally looks like him . hes to easy to draw though

park sketches and honk for jesus!

sean here is a great guy and artist. it was really fun to work with him this summer
रयांस ryans girlfriend
Oh yea, and don't forget to honk for Jesus. because he will hear you and everything. ...Should you honk for him because he's wearing something sexy or because he needs to get out of the way?

tribute to Seff

Sefffff here hooks up the art supplies,  is a true fan or caricature, and an all around good guy.   Here's to Sefff!!!

The thing I love most about this caricature of David is that he says he doesn't like it (so I framed it as a demo at the stand of course)  but when he works at that stand he stares and stares at it very intently.  

fun with customers

I told these guys I would put them on.    there was another but i lost the photo.    such a fun group,  they said the were watching me all week and wanted one from me.   wow!  great for my ego.  


I had to publish this one of morgan because she doesnt like it so much.  I also framed it at the stand as a demo and put it on her easel so she has to look at it a lot.    the ladies often cant handle it.  especially the pretty ones.  
i drew a quick one of this guy in my homemade sketchbook and pulled it out and gave it to him.    he loved it and offered me $

I help propose marriage

      I just wanted to post this.  It's not some great work of art because it was so quick and busy and I was nervous for the guy.   I just wanted to post it to share the experience.   This guy had me draw him proposing in the caricature.  He came up to me and asked me secretly to draw it.   She had no idea.   As I drew a large crowd started to gather.   By the end of the drawing I was so nervous and it wasn't even me poping the question.   Then I showed it and he got on his knee and pulled out the ring.   She said yes and everyone was cheering and clapping.  It was the most romantic thing I could ever imagine.      Best wishes to this sweet happy couple.   

Why I love my job

So I get this guy to sit down for a demo.   He's not interested in getting a caricature at this point.   We talk about the usual stuff,   where he's from,  cartoons,  the number of moons around Jupiter etc...          and then I give him a little peek of the drawing. 
And then I give him another peek.  

He ended up buying it with a frame.     Good times.     So there is a little taste of my job.          ....now all I have to do is figure out how to make some money.  ..haha

Why I do this

This guy was great.   He didn't really know if he wanted a caricature, but I knew he would love it so I roped him into my chair.   It was a quick one because it was a busy day.   In this first picture he hasn't seen the drawing yet and is just sitting there wondering what he is doing in my chair and not on a roller coaser.                ....and then i show it to him..

He likes it. 

And here's some other people.  This is how most of my days go.   I just wanted you to see so you could understand more of why I love this so much.    Does any studio artist get this kind of feedback?   This might be the most one can do to make the world a little better for now.       ...this and destroy your car.   ....and destroy car culture for that matter.      ...or the modern military/industrial complex.. ..oh I digress.        Does anyone know a nice cave to live in?

stefff drawing and my room

this is steph.   she said she likes this drawing so much that she has it framed at home.   so im posting it
here's me im my new room with some of my favorite pics from the hubble telescope and 2 of my new plant friends!

park sketches

more new stuff

I wanted to post theese 2 because they were so happy and it was so fun to draw and hangout.  

I could have done a lot more with theese 2 great faces but I just wanted to post it because I found out later that they are famous X-games dudes.   I finally drew someone famous!!
he was a chemist
this is my typical beach babe, popeye, drawing.  I just wanted to post one because I draw it so often.