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Month: August 2005

  • H.o.p. modeling clay – "Tim"

    “Tim”, a cartoon character. We ran out of colored modeling clay yesterday so H.o.p. went ahead and used a neutral color and painted everything he made. He has his priorities down. He may be incapable of cleaning up anything, but the moment he is done painting he always washes his brushes. Serious business for him.…

  • H.o.p. modeling clay – Gingerbread man, 2004

    [clear]Yeah, I know, what’s the big deal about a Gingerbread Man. Simple. Still, I think it’s cute and it has been around for a while and is starting to fall apart. The arm was already gone. Made without it. Y’know, partly eaten.

  • Digital art – Artist friend of husband and his daughter

    Digital art – Artist friend of husband and his daughter

    View On White Really interesting individual (again, a friend of my husband’s at the recent party) and his stunning daughter who is looking a trifle bored here. Considerable difficulty guessing at skin tones as I had one photo for reference and the flash had washed out his face so much it was only bright white,…

  • Roaring robot!!!

    [clear]Robot roaring, H.o.p., 2005, 7 yoa Hand sketch, scanned, colored in Photoshop Love the perspective.

  • What if we call them "shoes"? Will they stop being offensive then? Or how about "jugs"?

    New post version. With update way below. The crumb trail. From the blogroll of Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams to Have Coffee Will Write to Sherry Candler on how “The Writer’s Almanac” radio program was canceled by the University of Kentucky’s WUKY for offensive content. Offensive content… (beware, I don’t want to embarrass…

  • Monster breathing out green smoke (H.o.p. art)

    [clear] Monster breathing out green smoke, H.o.p., 2005, 7 yoa Hand sketch, scanned, colored in Photoshop. He does these wonderful, clean lines.

  • Nausea

    There are days when within a few minutes of getting up I want to go into the bathroom and regurgitate every thought word and image my eyes and ears have channeled into my system since waking. that have been reduced to a yellow-pink melee of viciously spiced, potted human revolting my stomach. To add to…

  • The way of all history

    I was, I think, 19 when I first read John Hersey’s, “Hiroshima”. I was working in a bookstore. Preferable would have been a job at the real bookstore in town that I used to haunt on the weekends, a small, cramped shop that smelled of books, its shelves so stuffed with books, books piled on…

  • Moby pulls the plug on Elmo’s computer (H.o.p. art)

    [clear]Moby pulls the plug on Elmo’s computer, H.o.p., 2005, 7 yoa Hand sketch, scanned, colored in Photoshop Moby is a rather rough robot in the educational Flashes at Brain Pop. He is the side-kick to human Tim, and is always doing something to annoy Tim or outright being nasty to him in his joking robot…

  • Red balloon (H.o.p. art blogging)

    [clear]Red balloon by H.o.p., 2005, 7 yoa Magic marker sketch H.o.p. does his lion’s share of dinosaurs, robots and Power Rangers drawings, but he has also always done stacks of these quick and fluid sketches.

  • Sea dragon (H.o.p. art blogging)

    [clear]Sea dragon, H.o.p., 2005, 7 yoa Sketch in magic marker, cut out, scanned, sky and sea colored in Photoshop.

  • The Return of the War On Terror

    Heretik notes that GSAVE, the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, is the New Coke and that the War On Terror is back by popular demand or Bush’s demand, which is the new popular demand. I’d previously written that GSAVE wasn’t snappy enough. 13 syllables or 12, depending on if you split the “-is” from the…