Contain the mutations, then take flight (progression drawings for April 2013)

April 14, 2013

April 15, 2013

April 16, 2013

a little bird: April 2013 Progression Drawings

April 1, 2013

April 2, 2013

April 3, 2013

Confronting Modern Day Slavery

March 25, 2013
Malina Suliman

Malina Suliman is an artist working in Kundahar province in Afghanistan. More about her work to expose oppression and intolerance at her website: http://maloaa3.com/?page_id=6

March 26, 2013
Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is working to expose child trafficking in the US. She is the founder of GEMS (Girls Educational And Mentoring Services www.gems-girls.org) More from her here (She is a POWERFUL speaker): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ij_6iMi9gA

March 27, 2013
Mu Sochua

 Mu Sochua is a MP from Cambodia where she directly confronts violence against women especially the child human trafficking "industry" that forces too many young girls into the "sex tourism" business. More here: http://vimeo.com/17575841

Confronting Race, Gender and Class Status through Words, Acting and Maps

March 15, 2013
Ntozake Shange

one thing I dont need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i dont know what to do wit em
they dont open doors
from "for colored girls who have considered suicide with the rainbow is enuf"

March 16, 2013
LyndaCarterWonderWoman

As a child with dark hair, 
seeing her as a self assured and powerful woman on television every week was important.  

More here on how she got her role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koYvZ3SklIQ

March 17, 2013
Sikha Patra

“Before, my identity was either as my grandfather’s granddaughter or my father’s daughter or as someone who lives in the house by the temple,” she says. “Now, they say, ‘Oh, that’s Shikha.’ Or, ‘That’s the girl who does surveys – or teaches kids to paint – or trains them in sports.’ I feel like they know me for who I am.” 

More here: http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/kids-improve-lives-in-kolkata-slums/

Words written, chiseled and spoken

March 12, 2013
Margaret Atwood

March 13, 2013
Camille Claudel

March 14, 2013
Sarah Kay

Reporting

March 10, 2013
Gloria Steinham

Why Gloria Steinham in a Playboy Bunny Costume? Read the article "I Was a Playboy Bunny" here: http://www.gloriasteinem.com/updates/2011/8/22/i-was-a-playboy-bunny.html

March 11, 2013
Ofeiba Quist-Arcton

At least once a week, as I drive to work and listen to NPR, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton's voice illuminates my car. Her voice is not only beautiful, but she is a reporter in Africa telling it like it is from the perspective of the people rather than the government run broadcasting system. (more here on that: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14904) Also, seriously the way she says "Dakar" makes my knees melt. But that is just rainbow sprinkles on my revolutionary sundae...

Silueta des flores

March 9, 2013
Ana Mendieta

Thankfully VAWA was reauthorized a few days ago. Perhaps Ms. Mendieta would have been still making art today if VAWA had been around in 1985. Although her husband was acquitted of any charges surrounding her death (she fell/jumped/was thrown from her apartment balcony) their relationship was rather violent. Of Mendieta's supporters, a chunk of the (misogynist) art community called them the rabid "feminist cabal." Hmmm, asking to be treated with dignity, equity and respect makes one a conniving plotter?

Do birds growl? (Progression Drawings 2013)

February 27, 2013
pen and ink, coffee and watercolor

February 28, 2013
pen and ink, coffee and watercolor

Bird Woman Drawings (Progression Drawings February 2013

February 24, 2013
Pen and ink and paper collage

February 25, 2013
Pen and ink, acrylic paint, word fragment

February 26, 2013
Pen and ink, acrylic paint, paper collage

The Struggles of a Snake Charmer (Progression Drawings February 2013)

February 21, 2013
watercolor, pen and ink, pencil and paper collage

February 22, 2013
pen and ink and watercolor

February 23, 2013
pencil, pen and ink, paper collage with word fragments

Profile flip grimace and fake noses (Progression Drawing February 2013)

February 17, 2013
Pencil, pen and ink, coffee, watercolor, word fragment collage

February 18, 2013
Pencil, pen and ink, coffee, colored pencil, paper collage

February 19, 2013
pencil, pen and ink, paper collage

Bird Beaks Devolution (progression drawing 2013)

February 12, 2013
graphite

February 13, 2013
graphite, colored pencil, word fragment

February 14, 2013
graphite and colored pencil

February 15, 2013
graphite, colored pencil and word fragments

February 16, 2013
graphite, pen and ink, coffee and watercolor

Blue after Blizzard (Progression Drawing 2013)

February 10, 2013
pencil, coffee, colored pencil

February 11, 2013
pencil, watercolor, coffee
paper was rotated  to horizontal referent

Blue after Blizzard
watercolor on paper
16" x 16"

So we had a blizzard here on Saturday.  No big deal.  I like having a reason to stay home.  But here's the big deal in my world: the blue sky on Sunday (the day after the blizzard).  WOW!  This blue is my favorite color hands down.  And it was all over the sky.  Beauty strung out above my head.  LOVE!

Also, the massive amounts of snow made all the sunshine on Sunday bounce even more into my house.  This made all my houseplants happy.  So what do I paint after a blizzard?  ...a creature with many eyes gazing out from her cozy plants into that gorgeous blue...  Snowy landscapes are overdone after all.

Magical children and emerging reptiles (Progression Drawings February 2013)

February 8, 2013
pencil, colored pencil and ink pen (stream of conscious writing)

February 9, 2013
pencil, colored pencil and coffee

Subtle Hints (February 2013 Progression Drawings)

February 5, 2013
pencil, watercolor, coffee, collage

February 6, 2013
pencil, watercolor, colored pencil, collage, coffee, ink pen, sharpie

February 7, 2013
pencil, colored pencil

I have learned to use pencil last in my progression drawings so that I don't feel like I am cheating when I start with pencil the next day.  I love my pencils.  ( I love other media too...but pencils are just kinda like breathing.)

Progression drawing: My, what big teeth you have!

February 3, 2013
Vertical paper presentation
used acrylic, pencil, pastel, coffee and paper collage (with pencil being the last medium used)

February 4, 2013
Vertical paper presentation (new image positioned slightly high up on page)
used pencil, paper collage, colored pencil, rapidograph pen, coffee (with coffee being the last medium used)

Progression Drawing a Day (February 2013 Drawing a Day)

February 2, 2013
graphite and acrylic

February 1, 2013
graphite

My idea for February's drawing is to begin with a crude, simple drawing on a 9 inch by 7 inch sheet of paper.  Then on the following day I will roughly trace the previous day's drawing and expand upon it.  The orientation of the paper and exactly what part of the previous drawing is trace is up for grabs.  Also up for grabs is medium/a as long as the last medium to be used on the previous day's drawing is the first to be used on the present day's.  Sounds simple enough in my head.  We'll see what happens.